The transition from the Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age in the Amnok River basin was centered on the ruins of Sinam-ri. Until now, the beginning stage of the Bronze Age was thought to be the second cultural layer of Sinam-ri Historic Site 3. Earlier, ...
The transition from the Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age in the Amnok River basin was centered on the ruins of Sinam-ri. Until now, the beginning stage of the Bronze Age was thought to be the second cultural layer of Sinam-ri Historic Site 3. Earlier, the 1st branch of Sinam-ri and 3rd branch of Sinam-ri were thought to be the last stage of the Neolithic period in several studies.
However, at the first point of the Sinam-ri site, jar-shaped earthenware with complex lightning patterns and curved plates without patterns are characterized, and colored earthenware, double rims-lips earthenware, and plates pottery with legs are excavated from the first cultural layer of the Sinam-ri ruins. Comparing the culture of the area adjacent to the Amnok River basin, neither point can be seen as the Neolithic Age.
The earthenware at the site of Sinam-ri Site 1 appears in the Yongyeon-ri ruins in the Amnok River basin, and is confirmed in the culture of the first Seokbulsan Mountain in the adjacent Liaodong area. Double Guyeonse Tumun earthenware is excavated from the ruins of Ssanghak-ri, Dobong-ri, and Bangung-ri, which are faster than one point, compared to the Pianbao cultural earthenware in the Liaohe basin.
The colored earthenware excavated from the first cultural layer of Sinam-ri Site 3 is the earthenware of one Bronze Age Shuangtuozi culture in the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula. Similar earthenware was also identified in the residential area where double-grained earthenware in Pyeonggeo-don Namgang River, Jinju, was excavated on the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, the colored earthenware seen from the first cultural floor of Sinam-ri branch 3 may be Bronze Age earthenware.
Therefore, the last stage of the Neolithic Age of the Amnok River can be the 1st site of Sinam-ri and Yongyeon-ri, and the Bronze Age culture can be considered from the the first cultural layer of the site of Sinam-ri 3.