Ancient site · Settlement
Songguk-ri
Songguk-ri, in Buyeo County, South Korea, is a large Middle and Late Mumun village and the type site for Middle Mumun culture in southern Korea. Excavations from 1975 found round pit-houses, a wooden palisade and ditches, and a stone-cist burial with a bronze dagger and large tubular greenstone beads, among the first bronzes found in South Korea.
Analysis of plant remains shows that rice-paddy farming supported the village. Songguk-ri helped archaeologists recognise the growth of ranked societies in Korea in the first millennium BCE.
- Dates
- c. 850–300 BCE
- Still standing
- No, or only traces
- Location
- 36.25° N, 126.98° E
How we know
No writing existed; the village is dated by radiocarbon and pottery styles from excavations since 1975.
Nearby sites
- Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa dolmens c. 1000–300 BCE (Bronze Age; Gochang group c. 7th century BCE)
- Bangudae Petroglyphs c. 5000 BCE – 9th century CE (approximate)
- Mausoleum of Tangun legendary date 2333 BCE; present monument built 1994
- Yoshinogari before 400 BCE – 3rd century CE
- Gwanggaeto Stele erected 414 CE
- Daisenryō Kofun mid-5th century CE
Related
- Mumun culture archaeological culture
- The world in 1000 BCE: Out of the Collapse chapter