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Dongsam-dong Shell Midden Museum

Introduction

Dongsamdong Shell Midden Museum

Welcome! Dongsam-dong Shell Midden Museum

Provisional Capital Memorial Hall

Through several excavations, at Dongsam-dong site, various fishes, shell fish and bones from animal including the comb-patterned pottery, stoneware, bone tools, mud-pottery, jewelry etc. were excavated. And also with an excavation examination of Busan Museum the oldest millet was found in the Korean peninsula. And a lot of Jomon Pottery and obsidian which shows the interchange relations between Neolithic period of Korea and Japan were excavated. Therefore it proved again it was an important remain to find out about the characteristics of Neolithic culture of Korea.

Therefore Busan museum opened the Dongsam-dong Shell Midden Remains and its’ excavated artifacts, which are the representative artifacts of Neolithic Age, and tried to use these as a living educational place. For these Dongsam-dong Shell Midden Exhibition Hall was opened as a specialized museum on April 24, 2002.

Although this is a small sized exhibition hall, Busan museum shall try hard to display as much as we can while showing the history and culture of Neolithic period in Korea through Dongsam-dong Shell Midden Exhibition Hall.

History