This skeleton looks to be in remarkably great condition considering its age:
A well-preserved adult female skeleton dating back 2,000 years ago has been unearthed in Yeongjong Island, Incheon.
The Korea Institute for Archeology and Environment, an agency specializing in unearthing and studying buried cultural properties, on Wednesday said it unearthed the skeleton lying supine with its head facing northwest in a burial mound at the bottom layer of a shell mound relic site in Unnam-dong, Jung-gu in District 2 of Yeongjong Haneul Town in the Incheon Free Economic Zone.
“In light of the size of the femur, we presume that the skeleton once belonged to a 153.6 cm-tall adult female,” the institute said. “She is presumed to have given birth to two to three babies. A long egg-shaped maroon earthen jar which was discovered near the skeleton contained apparent fragments of an infant’s skull and lower jawbone.” It said the finds will provide a lot of information for archeological research about people in an era about which little is known.
Pieces of earthenware dating to the early days of the Three Kingdoms Period from centuries before Christ’s birth to the third and fourth centuries were also excavated from this shell mound. Also found there were coins made in the Chinese Han Dynasty. [Chosun Ilbo]
If anyone is wondering these are not the oldest remains found in Korea. The oldest remains I know of were found outside the city of Jeongok along the Hantan River where bones of paleolithic people were found to be 40,000 to 50,000 year old. That is some old ajushis and ajummas.






