Origins: A Village That Slept Beneath a Baseball Training Field

The site, first revealed by the 1925 great flood, was surveyed by a university team in the 1960s, rediscovered by accident during training-field construction in 1968, and became the subject of formal excavation by the National Museum of Korea starting in 1971.

Key takeaways

Artifacts exposed by the Eulchuk Year Great Flood of 1925 were first surveyed by Korea University in the mid-1960s. Fact In 1968, construction of a training field for a nearby high school baseball team exposed dwelling sites, prompting a joint university excavation survey. Fact Then, starting in 1971, the National Museum of Korea began formal excavation to confirm the character of Korea's Neolithic culture, and by 1975, researchers had documented pit-dwelling sites, Jeulmun pottery, fishing-net weights, and grinding stones from the Neolithic period, alongside artifacts from the later Baekje period. Fact

What to look for on site

The original dwelling floor preserved as found, inside Exhibition Hall 1
Exhibition panels summarizing artifacts excavated through 1975
Cross-section displays showing the overlapping Neolithic and Baekje cultural layers

Precise phrasing

It's inaccurate to say "excavation at the Amsa-dong site began as a planned, deliberate project from the start." Make clear that today's excavation history grew out of a chain of coincidences — accidental exposure by flooding, followed by accidental rediscovery during training-field construction.