한국 중기구석기론의 비판적 검토 = The Relevance of the Middle Paleolithic in Korea: A Critical Review

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Although the last two decades witnessed a rapid increase in quantity of archaeological sites and artifacts, one could not say that our knowledge of the Paleolithic in Korea has been enhanced as much. Paleolithic studies in Korea face significant challenges in various areas. Many concepts, mostly originated from European Paleolithic studies, are used without suitable discussion of applicability. While being widely used among Paleolithic archaeologists, the relevance of the Middle Paleolithic in Korea has not been seriously discussed. For many Korean archaeologists, the Middle Paleolithic is taken just for a chronological scale, largely parallel to that of European Middle Paleolithic, without cultural connotations. The 'Korean Middle Paleolithic' is still need to be defined, because dates of many important sites are yet to be dated securely and there is few, if any, technological and cultural features proper to the period.