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Jeongok-ri

Palaeolithic site on the Hantan River terraces in Yeoncheon, South Korea. Acheulean-type handaxes were found here in 1978 - the first in East Asia - which undercut the Movius Line, the claim that such bifaces were absent east of India. Coordinates are those of the on-site Jeongok Prehistory Museum.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 348,050 years ago disputed
  artefact-bearing layer, museum figure of ~350,000 years ago (stated as years ago, not BCE; the age is debated in later literature) source
• 1978 CE mainstream
  Acheulean-type handaxes found, first in East Asia - an exception to the Movius Line source

Where

38.0115° N, 127.0637° E

Sources

• https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-paleolithic-site-of-jeongok-ri-jeongok-prehistory-museum/0QUBUqGwlsp4Iw
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movius_Line

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