水原 古索洞 舊石器時代 遺蹟의 一考

A Review of Paleolithic Stone Artifacts of Gosaek-dong Site, Suwon City

Gosaek-dong Site was located at the southwest of Suwon City. This paleolithic site was excavated by Kyonggi University museum, 2005. The site placed on the south hillside of low mountain(40.2m). Before excavation, this site was used as a agricultural field. In this paper, I try to discuss about the specific characteristics of late paleolithic artifacts uncovered at Gosaek-dong site. First, the excavation of paleolithic artifacts was for the first time in Suwon City region. Before this excavation, paleolithic artifacts such as stone axes, polyhedrals, scrapers, etc, were collected on the surface survey from Osan Gambaesan site in Hwasung City and Daeyami site in Gunpo City. Second, Gosaek-dong site has five soil layers. Among these layers, cultural layer for paleolithic is belonged to second layer in which stone artifacts were included. Just under the cultural layer, wedge shape structures formed at the Ice Age were appeared on the wall of trench. Third, artifacts uncovered are polyhedrals, scrapers, picks, stone cores, and lots of flakes. Although the amounts of artifacts are not so much excavated, from this cultural assemblages we may understand about the making process of stone tools for hunting activities. Finally, the chronology of the site is not clear because of the fact that not only amount of artifacts was rare, but also any evidences for aging the site was uncovered. Nevertheless, we can assume that this site was occupied by human at the late of Upper Paleolithic period, because artifacts excavated in the site is very similar with those of Sam-ri site in Gwangjoo City, Hopyung-dong site in Namyangjoo City, and Gambaesan site in Hwasung City.