Jeulmun pottery period

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The Jeulmun pottery period (Korean: 즐문 토기 시대) is an archaeological era in Korean prehistory broadly spanning the period of 8000–1500 BC.^[1] This period subsumes the Mesolithic and Neolithic cultural stages in Korea,^[2][3] lasting ca. 8000–3500 BC ("Incipient" to "Early" phases) and 3500–1500 BC ("Middle" and "Late" phases), respectively.^[4] Because of the early presence of pottery, the entire period has also been subsumed under a broad label of "Korean Neolithic".^[5]

The Jeulmun pottery period is named after the decorated pottery vessels that form a large part of the pottery assemblage consistently over the above period, especially 4000-2000 BC. Jeulmun (즐문; 櫛文) means "Comb-patterned". A boom in the archaeological excavations of Jeulmun Period sites since the mid-1990s has increased knowledge about this important formative period in the prehistory of East Asia.

The Jeulmun was a period of hunting, gathering, and small-scale cultivation of plants.^[6] Archaeologists sometimes refer to this life-style pattern as "broad-spectrum hunting-and-gathering".