부산대학교 도서관

Chapter 4 continues with the acts of burial and mourning of the Bronze Age discussed in chapter 3, and traces the escalation of warfare and social stratification that begin to define a regional network of tribes and chiefly factions during the classic Bronze Age period. In particular, the casting of bronze drums and innovations in weaponry technology shows the expansion of bronze metalworking across a number of valley groups in the highlands. Concurrent with these developments is an increasing level of ceremonalism in funerary culture and the rise of a new warrior rank system that is associated with the commemoration of a chiefly biographical time in unique cemetery sites. Chapter 4 shows how drum-owning chiefs, who foreshadowed the likes of the “king of Dian,” rose to regional power through processes of segmentation and class stratification, presaging what ethnohistorians and ethnographers identified as modus operandi of highland political history.