Peopling in the Korean Peninsula

Abstract

The earliest hominin occupation of the Korean peninsula is likely older than 400 ka. The Chongokni site has recently been dated to 350–300 ka.Komunmoru, Jangsanni, and Jangdongni are likely older than Chongokni. Currently, the oldest hominin fossils in Korea date to the late Middle Pleistocene or early Late Pleistocene and have tentatively been assigned to Homo erectus or archaic H. sapiens. Unlike many other regions of East Asia the Korean Peninsula records evidence of Pleistocene hominins which employed Acheulean technology.