Artworks

Comb-patterned pot from Amsa-dong

Artwork · Anonymous · c. 4000 BCE · vessel

A pointed-based pot with incised herringbone pattern from Amsa-dong near Seoul, the best-known Neolithic site of Korea: discovered after a flood in 1925 and excavated from 1967, with some thirty pit dwellings. chŭlmun pottery appears around 5000 BCE between the Ch’ŏngch’ŏn and Han rivers. 1 Portal 2000, p. 27, fig. 11. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.