Movements

Middle–Upper Palaeolithic (Korea)

Movement · period · 40,000–10,000 BCE

Dates. A stage of stone-tool industries, not an event: from about 40,000 BCE (Portal) — the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture puts the arrival of the Upper Palaeolithic blade industries with modern humans at about 35,000 years ago1 — to the end of the Pleistocene about 10,000 BCE, when the grey deer and reindeer shown at Sokchang-ri died out as the climate grew warmer2. Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, 구석기시대, 「한반도에는 대체로 3만 5천년 전에 현생인류의 출현과 같은 시기에 유입된 것으로 추정된다」. ↩ Jane Portal 2000, p. 24. ↩ 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.