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Cultural Relics Dating Back to Paleolithic Age Found in Korea
Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- Archaeologists of Kim Il Sung University in the DPRK have recently discovered cultural relics dating back to the Paleolithic Age in a cave in Kumok-ri, Sungho County, North Hwanghae Province.

The cave is about 43 meters long and 1.7 meters wide, 5.8 meters wide in the back. Found out inside the cave were a trace of bonfire, six pieces of stone implements, eight pieces of building stone, two pieces of bone tools and more than 8 700 pieces of fossil animals.

The stone implements are different in size and shape. Among them is a well-trimmed stone blade, 5 cm long, 4.7 cm wide, 2 cm thick and 53 grams in weight.

Unearthed in the bonfire trace, believed to be 80 cm long and 40 cm wide at that time, were about 20 cm-thick ash layer, pieces of burnt bones and several pieces of fossil bones of animals, including big bicorn rhinoceros, buffalo and tiger.

What catches the eyes among the remains is a fossil monkey the species of which differ from all others found out so far.

The discovery proves that the inhabitants of the cave were primitives in the latter period of the Paleolithic Age.

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