Amsa-dong Prehistoric Site

The Amsa-dong Prehistoric Site (Korean: 암사동 유적), also called Amsa-dong Prehistoric Settlement Site,^[1] is a 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.^[2][3] On July 26, 1979, the site was made a Historic Site of South Korea.^[3]

Amsa-dong Prehitoric Site
Some recreated umjip in the site (2016)
Coordinates	37.560°N 127.129°E / 37.560; 127.129
Historic Sites of South Korea
Official name	Archaeological Site in Amsa-dong, Seoul
Designated	1979-07-26
Korean name
Hangul	암사동 유적
Hanja	岩寺洞 遺蹟
RR	Amsa-dong yujeok
MR	Amsa-dong yujŏk

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.^[2]

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,^[4] although such materials have also been found in minor sites throughout the city (and all around the surrounding Han River basin),^[5] often through rescue archaeology.^[6]

The site is now partially open to the public, with museum exhibits and recreations of umjip.^[7]

See also

• History of Korea
  • Prehistoric Korea
  • History of Seoul
• List of museums in Seoul