This thesis is meant to investigate the origin of traditional culture peculiar to Cheju-do so that we can study the formative culture on the basis of the primeval era of Cheju-do, and to attempt to make an introductory description of the main points a...
This thesis is meant to investigate the origin of traditional culture peculiar to Cheju-do so that we can study the formative culture on the basis of the primeval era of Cheju-do, and to attempt to make an introductory description of the main points about our traditional culture.
Such a study must be made by means of archaeological method for lack of remains of the past and bibliography concerning it. But it seems to me that it is very difficult to describe the aspects of that kind of culture fully.
Quite recently, in many areas of Cheju-do, there are several relics and vestiges of ancient civilization-"Jisukmyo"(propping stone tombs), menhir, stone implements made by beating, stone implements made by rubbing, a fossil deer, shell-heaps, primitive men's dwelling-place and what not-were excavatted, and scholars concerned have a keen interest in the discovery of the ancient fine-artistic data in the prehistoric age.
I think these archaic cultural assets have academic value and they provide us with reliable sources to study the prehistoric culture in Cheju-do, besides being the properties inherited by our ancestors. Maybe they are good proofs in pursuing the prehistoric culture in Cheju-do.
If we want to search the origin of the culture of Chejudoian ancestors in agriculture, it would be better to make allowance for the following facts.
They, our ancestors, began their living by hunting wild animals, fishing in the sea and farming in the field years later the Stone age (the Palaeolithic age and the Neolithic age) came, when our ancestors domesticated wild animals and kept them.
Anyway, I believe the form of Chejudoian ancestor's culture will be examined gradually, as the farming implements in the age of both metal goods and stonework will be excavated and as the corpse of animals and plants or their fossils will be surveyed.