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- Title
THE EARLY TO LATE PALEOLITHIC TRANSITION IN KOREA: A CLOSER LOOK.
- Authors
Bae, Christopher J.; Kidong Bae; Jong Chan Kim
- Abstract
In Korean Paleolithic archaeology, it is traditionally thought that the Late Paleolithic stone tool industries were in some way derived from the Shuidonggou site in northern China. The latter site has long been considered to be the type site of the eastern Asian Late Paleolithic blade technology. However, recent studies suggest that a number of Korean Late Paleolithic sites probably predate Shuidonggou, some by several thousands of years. Here, we present a series of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates recently analyzed by the AMS laboratory at Seoul National University and discuss further the possibility that the introduction of blade (and later microblade) technologies into Korea may have originated directly from Mongolia, Siberia, and possibly other areas of northeast China, rather than from Shuidonggou.
- Subjects
KOREA; PALEOLITHIC Period; PREHISTORIC tools; BLADES (Archaeology); ARCHAEOLOGY methodology; ACCELERATOR mass spectrometry; SOUL Taehakkyo
- Publication
Radiocarbon, 2013, Vol 55, Issue 2, p1341
- ISSN
0033-8222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0033822200048256