Amsa Prehistoric Park

Hi all - I am busily trying to organize and pack before we head home in just 10 days now. Trying to get rid of things we have collected and still trying to see things we don't want to miss before we go.

So I found this trip by the Seoul International Womens Association and decided to go. We went by subway to this site of a prehistoric village that was uncovered during some flooding in 1925. This was during the Japanese Occupation of Korea and so the Japanese basically took all the treasures they could easily find and shipped them back to Japan and then left the site.

Years later in 1967 a group of Korean archaeologists excavated the site and made the park that is there now. They covered the main site of the discovery with a building to protect what they found and then covered part of the site up to be excavated later when the tools for figuring out what is there become more advanced.

If you click on the photo of the sign above it will get larger and you can read the description on the sign about the site.

Here is Netta in the entrance area. I thought these animals made of wood were really cool.
A map of the area.
Wooden animals
These are re-creations of the dugout homes that were built during this time in this area.
Netta inside one of the homes that you could go in and check out.
This is the main site where they found evidence of the dugout houses. This is the ground that they found and they built the museum around it. Of course the fake people have been added....

There were huge groups of school kids there on that day. They dressed them all up in these tiger furs that we thought were funny and cute - little did we know.......
Netta doing a hand drill...just like the one she did at Ohlone Day at Henry Cowell.
Oh - yes - they dressed us up too.. Olive only kept this on long enough to take the photo. But all the SIWA ladies dressed up including me and that was a sight to behold.
Netta in character....
Nearly every place we go has one of these to stick your head in - so cheesy. At the indoor ice skating rink where we went last week they even had one with ice-skating star bodies with your head. Funny.
One of the reasons I joined this tour was that they had activities to do after the tour. We built a dugout house model and a bow and arrow. I knew Netta would love this - as did Olive and I as well.
Netta concentrating hard to make the walls secure from wild animals. They told us if the rice stalks were not placed closely enough snakes and critters would get inside. Netta took this very seriously and spent a long time arranging them perfectly.
All the ladies dressed up and doing crafts....
Olive sanding the bow for our bow and arrow.
Olive concentrating on building our house.
More models of the houses.
Our models of the houses - this one is the one Olive and I made. She really liked adding the little torches all around with the balls of clay as the fire.
Netta's house. I don't think we can bring these home - kind of sad as they came out so great but the photos will last.
Inside the model is the fire pit and holes to hold the cooking vessels that were discovered at the site.
Model village life.

We also built bows and arrows with suction cup tips that we shot at fake animals. It was fun - I enjoyed how they made the experience really hands-on for all of us.

Ok back to organizing things for the trip...........

See you all soon.........