There are more than 500 dolmens in this group. The Hwasun Dolmen Site (31 ha) is situated on the slopes of a low range of hills, along the Jiseokgang River.Over 440 dolmens of various types have been recorded in this location. The Gochang Dolmen Site (8.38 ha) features the largest and most diversified group and is centered in the village of Maesan, along the southern foot of a group of hills running east/west.The property encompasses three distinct areas. They are usually found in cemeteries on elevated sites and are of great archaeological value for the information that they provide about the prehistoric people who built them and their social and political systems, beliefs and rituals, and arts and ceremonies.
Usually consisting of two or more undressed stone slabs supporting a huge capstone, it is generally accepted that they were simply burial chambers, erected over the bodies or bones of deceased worthies. Dolmens are megalithic funerary monuments, which figured prominently in Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures across the world during the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE. The Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen sites contain the highest density and greatest variety of dolmens in Korea, and indeed of any country. They form part of the Megalithic culture, found in many parts of the world, but nowhere in such a concentrated form. The prehistoric cemeteries at Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa contain many hundreds of examples of dolmens – tombs from the 1st millennium BC constructed of large stone slabs.
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