Amsa-dong Prehistoric Site Museum
암사동선사유적박물관
Gangdong-gu
Address: 875 Olympic-ro, Gangdong-gu, Seoul
Background
The Amsa-dong Prehistoric Site, also called Amsa-dong Prehistoric Settlement Site, is an archaeological site and open-air museum in Amsa-dong, Gangdong District, Seoul, South Korea. The site contains evidence of human habitation from at 3,000 to 4,000 years before the present. On July 26, 1979, the site was made a Historic Site of South Korea.
Around 4,000 B.C., people of the area lived inside huts with lowered floors called umjip. There is evidence of the consumption of cooked grain and fish by 3,000 B.C. Around 1,500 B.C., communities began transitioning into the Bronze Age and farming at scale.
Due to modern Seoul's significant urbanization, this site is the only known major archaeological site in Seoul where Stone Age materials have been found, although such materials have also been found in minor sites throughout the city (and all around the surrounding Han River basin), often through rescue archaeology.
The site is now partially open to the public, with museum exhibits and recreations of umjip.
From Wikipedia: Amsa-dong Prehistoric Site, opening section, lightly shortened. CC BY-SA 4.0
On these walks
- Amsa and Gwangnaru: Seoul's First Village: A Neolithic village site from around 6,000 years ago, found after a flood in 1925. A small museum shows comb-pattern pottery, and reconstructed pit houses stand in the park.