Mumun Pottery Period

The Mumum Pottery Period (c.1500 – 300 BCE) of Korean History is when we see the emergence of the first agricultural societies — the Korean Neolithic Revolution.

Relative to the people of the Near East, the people of the Korean peninsula were relatively late to enter the Neolithic, and to ultimately exit Prehistory.

• Early Mumun Period (1500-850 BCE) — People in southern Korea adopted dry-field and paddy-field agriculture intensively, multitude of crops. [1]
• Middle Mumun (850 – 550 BCE — saw first societies led by chiefs, which marked a change in the structure of power, social hierarchy, in Prehistoric Korea.
• Late Mumun (550 – 300 BCE) — saw first ostentatious, grandiose elite burials (a movement in the direction towards the divine authority of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Chinese Emperor).