Mumun pottery period

Mumun pottery period appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Korea (East Asia) from c. 1500 to 300 BCE, a span of 1,200 years. Its people spoke Unknown or undeciphered languages (Indus, Minoan, Moche, Nazca, Chavin, Jomon and other unattested languages).

Rice farmers who made plain undecorated pottery, built dolmens by the tens of thousands and lived in growing villages with ditches and palisades. Korea has more dolmens than any other country.

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Facts

Dates

c. 1500 to 300 BCE

Duration

1,200 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Korea, East Asia

Language family

Unknown or undeciphered

Came from

• Jeulmun pottery period c. 3200 to 1500 BCE

Events in East Asia during its time

• 1250 BCE Oracle bone writing at Anyang
• 1046 BCE Battle of Muye
• 551 BCE Birth of Confucius

Neighbours in East Asia

• Shang dynasty c. 1600 to 1046 BCE
• Chu c. 1030 to 223 BCE
• Gojoseon c. 700 to 108 BCE
• Qin (Zhou state) c. 770 to 221 BCE
• Eastern Zhou 770 to 256 BCE
• Western Zhou 1046 to 771 BCE
• Zhangzhung c. 500 BCE to 644 CE
• Shu kingdom (Jinsha) c. 1150 to 316 BCE
• Qi c. 1046 to 221 BCE
• Yan c. 1046 to 222 BCE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Minoan civilization c. 3100 to 1450 BCE, Europe
• Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
• Roman Republic 509 to 27 BCE, Europe
• New Kingdom of Egypt c. 1550 to 1069 BCE, North and West Africa
• Greek city-states c. 800 to 338 BCE, Europe
• Neo-Assyrian Empire 911 to 609 BCE, Middle East
• Ptolemaic Kingdom 305 to 30 BCE, North and West Africa
• Hittite Empire (New Kingdom) c. 1400 to 1180 BCE, Middle East
• Achaemenid Empire 550 to 330 BCE, Middle East
• Athens 508 to 322 BCE, Europe

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