¢Ã Black Moru(Anvil) Cave at Sangwon, Pyeongnam
     

     It is a limestone cave with a profitable condition to preserve animal bones as the relics of the former Old Stone Age.  Hundreds of animal fossils of 22 kinds including bear, rhinoceros, horse, elephant, water buffalo, rat and deer were found.  Fossils were excavated first and revealed the animals' life, weather and human life in the Korean peninsula in the age of the Pleistocene.

     

     

     


     

     


    ¢Ã Seokjang-ri in Gongju-city, Chungnam  

     It is a representative relics in the South Korea and has begun under excavation since 1964.  It has 28 stratums and 11 cultural stratums have remains.
    There were single and double-edged axes between the 1st and fourth stratums, pusher and fist-sized hatchets in the 5th and 6th stratum and pushers and chisel between the 7th and 10th stratums.  And chisels and pusher were excavated in the 11th stratum, which shows a resemblance to the late culture of the Old Stone Age in Europe.
    The excavation of this relic site made the division of the Old Stone Age in the Korean peninsula into the former, middle and latter period possible and became an important framework of researching the Old Stone Age in Korea.

     

     

     




     

     


    ¢Ã Relics at Jeongok-ri, Yeonchun-gun, Gyeongkido
     

    This is the relic site of the former Old Stone Age, where more than 3,000 stone tools were excavated and additional stone tools were found at the surface of the earth.  In 1978, the fist-sized hatchet was excavated, which was a chance to correct the existing doctrine that it was excavated only in Europe.
    It was rich and epochal data for researching the Old Stone Age in East Asia and the Korean Peninsula
     

     

     


     

     

     


    ¢Ã Jeommal Cave at Jaechun-gun, Chungbuk

     It was excavated in 1973 with many animal fossils in the Pleistocene including the cave bear, tiger, variation of deer and musk deer, and bone and stone tools.  Also a rhinoceros bone with an engraved man's face was found so it was an important material to reveal the possibility of using bone tools instead of stone tools and to chronicle the natural environment of the Old Stone Age.

     

     

     



     

     


    ¢Ã Suyanggae Cave at Danyang, Chungbuk

     

     Cultural stratums in the middle and latter period of the Old Stone Age were examined at the Suyanggae relic site and fist-sized hatchets,  knives, scratchers, choppers, pushers and crystal chisels were found here.  Among them, the method of making the ship shaped pusher is related to  North Asia and crystal chisels and pushers show a very elaborate and sophisticated artistic activity.  In addition, the piercing tool is a unique tool of Suyanggae relics with a fist-sized hatchet.