Goseong Munam-ri Site

This description was machine-translated from the Korea Tourism Organization's Korean original.

The Goseong Munam-ri prehistoric site lies on a dune on the southern slope of a hilly area about 400 m inland from the East Sea coast; nearby, early Iron Age sites are distributed, making it a site formed over multiple periods. From December 1998 to March 1999, the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage under the Cultural Heritage Administration excavated about 200 pyeong of the overall site and confirmed five artifact-bearing layers and three Neolithic cultural layers deposited there, and discovered various remains including three dwellings and outdoor hearths. It is a highly important site for clarifying the Neolithic cultures of Northeast Asia—encompassing the northeastern Korean Peninsula, China’s three northeastern provinces, and the Amur River basin in Russia—as well as the origins and migration routes of prehistoric people on the Korean Peninsula and the cultural lineages and extent of diffusion of that time. The Munam-ri prehistoric site is the most tranquil of Goseong’s travel destinations.