Dongsam-dong Shell Midden or Shell Mound is located on the west coast of Yeong-do Island in Dongsam-dong, Yeongdo-gu, Busan Metropolitan City, the Republic of Korea. Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language Romanization system in South Korea. McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language Romanization systems along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which Yeongdo-gu is a gu in Busan, South Korea. The gu itself is limited to Yeong-do ( Yeong Island) located on the south edge South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː

This archaeological site consists of a midden of shells of various mollusk taxa that were discarded in a relatively small or restricted area by people who lived there in the Jeulmun Pottery Period^[1][2]. An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either Prehistoric or historic or contemporary and A midden, also known as a kitchen midden, or a shell heap, is a dump for domestic waste. Molluscs are animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca. There are around 250000 extant Species within the phylum with an estimated 70000 A taxon (plural taxa) or taxonomic unit, is a name designating an organism or a group of Organisms In Biological nomenclature according to The Jeulmun Pottery Period is an archaeological era in Korean prehistory that dates to approximately 8000-1500 B It was excavated three times by archaeologists of the National Museum of Korea from 1969 and was found to be the among oldest Jeulmun middens so far discovered in the southern part of the Korean peninsula. The National Museum of Korea is the flagship museum of Korean history and art in South Korea and is the cultural organization that represents Korea. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Physical geography See also Geography of North Korea, Geography of South Korea Mountains cover 70 percent of the Korean Peninsula and arable plains are The presence of Yunggimun (appliqué-pattern) pottery indicates the site was occupied for a time between 8000-7000 BC, but many absolute dates generated from carbon that was excavated from the site indicate the site was also occupied in the Middle (c. 3500 BC) and Late (c. 2000 BC) Jeulmun sub-periods^[3][4].

Map showing the location of the Dongsam-dong Shell Midden site and other Jeulmun Period archaeological sites in southern Korea.

A variety of artifacts, including three types of pottery (patternless, comb-patterned, and appliqué patterned), and tools made of bone and stone were uncovered. A stone tool is in the most general sense any Tool made of stone. Artifacts and features from Dongsam-dong provide insight into the way the people of the area lived as well as into the cultural trends of the times^[5][6].

The excavated remains have also proved to be valuable for estimating both the influences of Siberian culture on Korea and prehistoric exchange between southern Korea and Kyūshū, Japan^[7][8]. Siberia (Сиби́рь Sibir) is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving or Kyushu is the third-largest Island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.

References

See also

• Prehistoric Korea