Movements

Korean Neolithic

신석기 시대

Movement · period · c. 10,000–1500 BCE

Dates. In Korea the Neolithic is defined not by farming but by pottery, among people who still lived mainly by hunting, fishing and gathering. It begins about 10,000 BCE: the oldest pottery found so far, at Gosan-ri on Jeju island, dates to about 7500 BCE, and pottery probably appeared earlier still1. It ends about 1500 BCE, when a culture of rice farming and plain (mumun) pottery arrived2. Portal (2000) still gives c. 6000–1000 BCE, before radiocarbon dates moved both ends back3. Its start lies before 4713 BCE, the first date that can be stored here, so it stays open. Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, 신석기시대, 「서기전 7500년 전후의 절대연대를 갖는 제주 고산리 유적의 유기질혼입토기」. ↩ Ebd., 「도작 농경과 무문토기를 주체로 하는 문화가 유입됨에 따라 종말을 맞이한다」. ↩ Jane Portal 2000, pp. 24, 29. ↩ Literatur Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, 신석기시대: 하인수, 신석기시대, in: 한국민족문화대백과사전 (Encyclopedia of Korean Culture), 한국학중앙연구원 (Academy of Korean Studies), https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0033063 (zuletzt abgerufen am 30.10.2026). Jane Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.