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Korean historian and archaelogist who proved Korean Old Stone Age dies

Sohn Pow-key, an archeologist who proved humans were living on the Korean Peninsula during the Paleolithic Age by excavating related artifacts, died in Seoul on Sunday. He was 88....

From 1964 to 1974 when he was professor of history at Yonsei University and head of the university’s museum, Sohn excavated Paleolithic tools at Seokjang-ri in Gongju, South Chungcheong Province. It was the first archeological proof that prehistoric people lived on the Korean Peninsula. Sohn led 12 excavation activities there until 1992....
Read entire article at Korea Herald