ANT313H5 Lecture Notes - Liaodong Peninsula, Staple Food, Foxtail Millet
Document Summary
Map of north and south korea: concentrated on south. Korea: chulmun culture: early chulmun, middle chulmun, late chulmun. Links to ne china (dongbei-formerly manchuria: development of agriculture like japan, the chulmun narrative emphasizes the unique hunter-gatherer cultures . Korean identity traditionally linked to migrants about 1000bc and ethic homogeneity dominates as a theme (last point can be justified) Nk and sk split as a result of recent politics. Before 1000 bc. , people were palaeo-siberians and not related to contemporary. Palaeolithic micro cores: likely the same processes at the end of the pleistocene that we saw in japan, but many archaeologists see no connection between palaeolithic and neolithic/early villages, same processes in china. Chulmun: earliest date to about 8000bp or 6000 bc. On east and south coast mainly shell middens. Oldest site is on cheju island: tongsamdong site among best examples of a site with a long sequence of occupations. The sites: tongsamdong really close to japan.
