Movements

Middle Palaeolithic (Korea)

Movement · period · 100,000–40,000 BCE

Dates. A stage of stone-tool industries, not an event. Portal’s dates are 100,000–40,000 BCE1; the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture counts it from the beginning of the last glacial period, about 100,000 years ago, to the appearance of blade industries about 35,000 years ago2. Jane Portal 2000, p. 23. ↩ Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, 구석기시대, 「10만년 전에서 … 3만 5천년 전후한 시기까지」. ↩ Literatur Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, 구석기시대: 배기동, 구석기시대, in: 한국민족문화대백과사전 (Encyclopedia of Korean Culture), 한국학중앙연구원 (Academy of Korean Studies), https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0005842 (zuletzt abgerufen am 30.10.2026). Jane Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.