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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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