Yeoju Master Heunamni Site

This is a village site representing the early Bronze Age in Korea. The site lies on the summit of a hill 123 m above sea level overlooking the Namhan River, and along the ridge extending east from it. Sixteen dwelling sites were investigated, each a long, rectangular semi-subterranean pit-house ranging from 11.6 to 42 square metres in size. Hearths, postholes and storage pits were found inside the dwellings. Judging from the artefacts recovered from within them, it is presumed that women mainly cooked and wove in the space near the hearth, while men made stone tools near the entrance. From the dwelling sites came so-called "Heunam-ri-style pottery", bearing perforated designs, ridged-rim designs and short oblique-line designs on double rims, either singly or in combination, together with red burnished pottery in the shape of a stemmed dish. A wide variety of stone tools was also recovered, including polished stone daggers, stone arrowheads, perforated wheel-shaped axes, stone axes, semi-lunar stone knives, stone ploughshares, grinding stones, grinding slabs and spindle whorls. Of particular note, large quantities of carbonised rice together with barley, foxtail millet and sorghum were recovered from Dwelling No. 12, suggesting that the Bronze Age people of Heunam-ri farmed while also supplementing their diet with hunting, fishing and gathering. Based on the excavated artefacts and radiocarbon dates, the site is dated to around the twelfth to eleventh centuries BC. The village-wide excavation carried out in the 1970s provided landmark data for research on the chronology of mumun (plain coarse) pottery, giving the site its significance.

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Where it is

Region

Yeoju, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물