The Korean Early Palaeolithic: Patterns and Identities

dc.contributor.author Lee, Hyeong Woo
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-02T01:52:28Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-02T01:52:28Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.description.abstract Increasing data from early Korean Palaeolithic assemblages have challenged the validity of traditional paradigms. This article summarizes previous models and addresses recently raised questions regarding the synthesis of early toolkits. Determining chronologies, cultural markers, and regional cultural traits were our primary objectives. The applicability of the traditional Western Palaeolithic chronology (Lower, Middle, Upper) to East Asian contexts has recently been questioned, in conjunction with an effort to identify more discrete chronological changes in East Asia. The discourse related to cultural identities within East Asia has underscored the importance of spatially and temporally differing values. The morphology and metrics of Korean hand axes have not been considered typical Acheulean. In addition, temporal persistence is an issue; it has caused the conventional culture-historical orthodoxy to be questioned. Discourses on expedient lithic reduction and a static lithic sequence have been considered indicative of discrete cultural entities in the Korean Palaeolithic. Oldowan-like simple core and flake assemblages and the sporadic occurrence of hand axe assemblages in East Asia were traditionally regarded to be chronologically and culturally separate entities. The growing body of archaeological data for Korea has allowed analysis of the occupational contemporaneity and cultural subordination and independence of chopping tool and hand axe assemblages. The Korean Early Palaeolithic is not standardized and does not conform to traditional typologies. Consequently, the directional perspectives applied to these assemblages need to be reevaluated.
dc.identifier.issn 0066-8435 (Print)
dc.identifier.issn 1535-8283 (E-ISSN)
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/55547
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu)
dc.relation.ispartofseries Volume 54
dc.relation.ispartofseries Number 1
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subject Korea
dc.subject Early Palaeolithic
dc.subject Oldowan
dc.subject Acheulean
dc.subject lithics tool kits, chronologyKorea
dc.subject Early Palaeolithic
dc.subject Oldowan
dc.subject Acheulean
dc.subject lithics tool kits, chronology
dc.title The Korean Early Palaeolithic: Patterns and Identities
dc.type Article
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