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What is the Neolithic?
About 8,000 years ago, the Paleolithic ended
and the warm
postglacial time came to begin.
Under this new environment,
people first
began to produce foods by cultivating plants
and
breeding animals, and consequently made
great strides:
this period is called the
Neolithic. The Korean Neolithic culture
was not promoted by agriculture, but began
to show some
Neolithic characteristics including
pottery making and
ground stone tool technology
from about 5,000~6,000 years ago.
The Neolithic pottery is represented by
Jeulmun pottery (or comb-pattern pottery)
that is decorated
with geometric patterns
by pressing or
incising on the pottery
surface
with decorating tools.
The pottery pattern has been important criteria
for
the chronological divisions of the Korean
Neolithic. For example,
the Korean Neolithic
in the south coast is divided into five
phases based
on the pottery patterns and
strata of the Dongsam-dong
shell midden
site and the Suga-ri shell midden site:
yunggimun (¡°applique design¡±) pottery for
the Incipient;
jadolmun (¡°pricked impression
pattern¡±) and abinmun (¡°stamped design¡±)
pottery for the Early; taeseonchimseonmun (¡°bold slanting line pattern¡±)
for the Middle; toehwachimseonmun (¡°vestigial slanting line
pattern¡±) pottery for the Late; and double-rimmed
pottery for the Final period. Most pottery
had a cone shape with a pointed base, but
it also allowed different pottery types
such as planting-pot shaped pottery and
long-neck jars.
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