Musanhokok-yujŏk Ruins - Musanhokok-yujŏk (English)

Japanese: 茂山虎谷遺跡 - もさんここくいせき（英語表記）Musanhokok‐yujŏk

Located in Musan-eup, Musan-gun, North Hamgyong-do, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on the bank of the upper reaches of the Tumen River, this is one of the most representative prehistoric sites in the northeastern part of the Korean Peninsula. Excavations were carried out from 1959 to 1961, and within an area of 1,380 m2, 51 pit dwellings dating from the Comb-patterned Pottery (Neolithic) period to the Proto-Three Kingdoms period (early Iron Age) and two box-type stone coffin tombs from the Plain Pottery period were discovered. The dwellings can be divided into six periods based on their structure and artifacts. Period I belongs to the end of the Comb-patterned Pottery period, and all of the 10 dwellings discovered were small, square or rectangular, and comb-patterned pottery, stone tools, and bone tools were excavated.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

朝鮮民主主義人民共和国，咸鏡北道茂山郡茂山邑にあって，豆満江上流域の河岸に立地する，朝鮮半島北東部を代表する先史時代遺跡の一つ。1959‐61年に発掘調査が行われ，1380m2の範囲内に櫛目文土器(新石器)時代から原三国時代(鉄器時代初期)にわたる竪穴式住居跡51基と，無文土器時代の箱式石棺墓2基が検出された。住居跡は，その構造と遺物から，およそ六つの時期に分けられる。第I期は，櫛目文土器時代末期に属し，検出された10基の住居跡はいずれも方形もしくは長方形の小型であり，櫛目文土器や石器，骨器を出土した。

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