People’s Lives in Dae Gaya

[Narration]
As Dae Gaya has a stream within its territory, its people were able to make living by cultivating fertile soil.
According to historical records in China, Dae Gaya also produced a lot of high-quality hemp cloth.

Tools for making hemp thread were found in the ancient tombs of Dae Gaya, and fabric such as silk was also found on the surface of artifacts such as armor and gilt-bronze crowns. We assume that the ruling class wore silk clothes.

Look around the exhibition of Dae Gaya’s clothes here.

In addition to clothing, traces of the dietary life of people from that time were found in the ancient tombs as well.
There were many fish bones. Since a fishnet weight was found in the tombs, we can guess that people used to catch fish from the stream with nets.
The outdoor area of the museum shows the houses of Dae Gaya. These houses were dugout huts made by digging up the soil. These huts have a unique heating method.

[Historian]
The people of Dae Gaya heated the floor with the heat from hearth’s smoke. When this was further developed, it became the "ondol," which is the traditional Korean style of heating. Unlike fireplaces of the West, the floor is directly heated in Korean traditional heating system