Origin and patterns of the Upper Paleolithic industries in the Korean Peninsula and movement of modern humans in East Asia

Bae, Kidong

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2009.06.011

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“…Even the Shuidonggou site in Ningxia, northern China, is dominated by the traditional core and flake tools, with blades comprising only a small portion of the overall toolkit (Pei et al 2012). This supports the argument that, although blades (and later microblades) appear in the eastern Asian archaeological record after 40 ka, in many cases the Early Paleolithic core and flake tool industry continued to be present in the region up through the beginning of the Last Glacial Maximum (Bae 2010;Bae and Bae 2012;Pei et al 2012).…”

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“…Nevertheless, it should be noted that blade technology did not simply sweep across NE Asia . There are many sites in NE Asia that, despite being penecontemporaneous with the blade localities, are dominated by Early Paleolithic core and flake tools and/or do not have blades at all (Li 1993;Gao 1999;Bae 2010;Pei et al 2012). The AMS dates presented here (Table 1) indicate these sites should be considered Late Paleolithic because of their chronometric age.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Blades and microblades appear in Northeast (NE) Asia, but not Southeast Asia (Norton and Jin 2009;Bae 2010). The reason for this is still unclear (see Norton and Jin 2009 for discussion).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A growing number of sites exist in Korea that can be assigned to the Late Paleolithic, but appear to be coeval or predate Shuidonggou (Bae 2010;Seong 2011;Bae and Bae 2012 (Seong 2011;Bae and Bae 2012), which in turn makes Jangheungri one of the oldest microblade sites in all of eastern Asia (Norton et al 2007). …”

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“…The nature of the Early to Late Paleolithic transition in Korea was recently reviewed and critiqued (Bae 2010;Bae and Bae 2012). 4 Here, we contribute an array of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) samples analyzed in the Seoul National University AMS laboratory primarily between 2009 and 2012 (Table 1; see also Bae and Kim 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Early to Late Paleolithic Transition in Korea: A Closer Look

Bae

2013

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ABSTRACT. In Korean Paleolithic archaeology, it is traditionally thought that the Late Paleolithic stone tool industries were in some way derived from the Shuidonggou site in northern China. The latter site has long been considered to be the type site of the eastern Asian Late Paleolithic blade technology. However, recent studies suggest that a number of Korean Late Paleolithic sites probably predate Shuidonggou, some by several thousands of years. Here, we present a series of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates recently analyzed by the AMS laboratory at Seoul National University and discuss further the possibility that the introduction of blade (and later microblade) technologies into Korea may have originated directly from Mongolia, Siberia, and possibly other areas of northeast China, rather than from Shuidonggou.

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confidence: 84%

“…Blades and microblades appear in Northeast (NE) Asia, but not Southeast Asia (Norton and Jin 2009;Bae 2010). The reason for this is still unclear (see Norton and Jin 2009 for discussion).…”

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The evolution of modern human behavior in East Asia: Current perspectives

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2009

Evolutionary Anthropology

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Behavioral modernity is considered one of the defining characteristics separating modern humans from earlier hominin lineages. Over the course of the past two decades, the nature and origins of modern human behavior have been among the most debated topics in paleoanthropology. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] There are currently two primary competing hypotheses regarding how and when modern human behavior arose. The first one, which we shall term the saltational model, argues that between 50-40 kya modern human behavior appeared suddenly and as a ''package''; that is, the entire range of traits appeared more or less simultaneously. The proposed reason most often cited for this sudden change in behavior is a genetic mutation, possibly related to communication, 7 that occurred around 50 kya. The second major hypothesis, which we shall term the gradualistic model, argues that modern human behavior arose slowly and sporadically over the course of the past 150,000 years and may be related to increasing population pressure.2 In general, many European scholars subscribe to the saltational model, while many Africanists seem to prefer the gradualistic model. As McBrearty and Brooks 2 noted, the disagreement may be related to different developmental histories underlying the research traditions in Europe and Africa.

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Lost Foraging Opportunities for East Asian Hunter‐Gatherers Due to Rising Sea Level Since the Last Glacial Maximum

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This paper explores how changes in sea level and biome distribution may have affected the habitats occupied by hunter-gatherers in East Asia. Using a modelbased reconstruction of changing sea level from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to present day, our analysis reveals that the exposure of a large continental shelf during the LGM sea level lowstand created a wealth of wooded, estuarine, and coastal biomes that could have been exploited intensively by Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers. Models explaining hunter-gatherer subsistence changes and migrations in this period should take into account the large area that has been lost to rising sea level since the LGM. C 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Origin and patterns of the Upper Paleolithic industries in the Korean Peninsula and movement of modern humans in East Asia

Cited by 52 publications

References 10 publications

The Early to Late Paleolithic Transition in Korea: A Closer Look

The Early to Late Paleolithic Transition in Korea: A Closer Look

The evolution of modern human behavior in East Asia: Current perspectives

Lost Foraging Opportunities for East Asian Hunter‐Gatherers Due to Rising Sea Level Since the Last Glacial Maximum

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