the history of primitive society

 the history of primitive society

It is said that the distant ancestors of mankind began living about 4.5 million years ago.
The Paleolithic Age of the Korean Peninsula is approximately 700,000 years ago, and its representative historical site is the Black Moru Cave in South Pyongan Province.

The caves in Yonggok-dong, Pyongyang, Jeongok-ri in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi Province, Seokjang-ri in Gongju, South Chungcheong Province, and Geumgul Cave in Danyang, North Chungcheong Province.

Although many Paleolithic sites have been found to contain animal bones, human bones have also been excavated from Yeonpo in Pyongyang, Seungri Mountain Cave in Deokcheon, and Cheongwon Durubong Cave.
Paleolithic people were mainly hunter-gatherers, making jigsaw, fist axes, and small sharp tools such as scratches, push-ups, jjigae, and sagae.

They collected and used fire, and there are traces of fire in the ruins of Seokjang-ri, Gongju, and Jecheon.
They lived in groups and communicated with each other through gestures and footprints.
As the natural environment changed at the end of the last ice age, they devised bows and arrows to suit the situation and used a joint tool called the Stone Age. This period is called the Jungseokgi.

The ruins of the Jungseok Period, including the ruins of the Juam Dam in Suncheon, Jeollanam-do, Hongcheon, Gangwon-do, and Sangnodae, Tongyeong, Gyeongsangnam-do, were found.

Neolithic people lived in groups of dozens of people by clan. It was a community based on maternal blood ties, but all members of the clan are equal and are called primitive communities. Women led economic life, and primitive farming was started by women who were in charge of collecting. However, as the farmland was gradually prepared as a care, men took the lead in farming. Thus, the clan society has changed. He/she gradually exchanged goods with neighboring clan members, and while living in agriculture and settlement, interest in the natural environment grew and came to think of nature's providence.

Beliefs such as animism, which considers natural objects to have souls, totemism, which equates certain animals and plants, and shamanism, which believes in the power of shamanism and sorcery, have sprung up. Also, there were soul worship and ancestor worship.

Then, over time, mankind finally finds metal.

The first metal to be used was copper, and gradually a mixture of tin, lead, and zinc produced bronze. The bronze ware was produced and used in northeastern China and the Korean Peninsula from around 2000 BC. Traces such as non-par-shaped bronze swords were found everywhere and were used in earnest from around 1000 B.C.

The Bronze Age was a good thing for the chiefs to show off their power. In the 4th century B.C., a long, narrow, rigid blade shaped like a blade was made, called a three-type bronze dagger or a Korean-style bronze dagger. The use of bronze ware also made the production tools sharper and more sophisticated. In addition, the growing role of men in agriculture led to greater rights, the emergence of patriarchal families, and women took charge of childcare and household chores. As a result, the primitive community collapsed and became a power and class society. 

The population surged and the rich and powerful became the ruler of the group. This can be seen through dolmens, the tombs of the Bronze Age. In addition, there was a war between groups, and the village was filled with cheers and taciturns as a defense facility and built a castle.