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A national research institute has caught Korean archaeologists and historians off guard by announcing yesterday that archaeological traces presumed to be the oldest remains of agricultural fields in East Asia have been found on the nation¡¯s east coast.
The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage said it discovered traces of how the land was used during the Neolithic period in Goseong, Gangwon, about 466 kilometers (290 miles) east of Seoul.
Until now, Korean archaeologists have had to make do with circumstantial evidence suggesting that people might have cultivated land during this period. They found farming-related stone tools and carbonized grain from the era, but no remains of agricultural fields </br> </br> </br> ¢Ö¾ß¸¶ÅäÀÎÅͳݢס¾¡Ñ¡ìwww.vips66.nl.ae¡í