The Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Korean Agency for National Heritage Conservation under the Bureau for the Protection of Cultural Heritage conducted a comprehensive survey and unearthing of the Kanggu-dong area in Hyesan City.

In the course, 263 relics of 17 species were excavated at two Neolithic Age house sites and four Bronze Age house sites.

The house sites in the shape of dugout cellars with wooden pillars are more or less 6.5 meters long, 5 meters wide and 0.25 meters deep.

Some pieces of unglazed potteries including those in the Neolithic and Bronze ages and stone tools and bone tools including axe, adz, plane iron, scimitar, spearhead, arrowhead and awls were unearthed there.

Those unearthed remains and relics belong to the period of the Late Neolithic Age (6,000 years ago) and the Bronze Age (4,000 years ago) of Korea and are precious data for the scientific world to renew the view that the Korean nation had pioneered the area of Mt Paektu and settled down there since 3,000 years ago, the early iron era.

The Archaeological Society of the DPRK examined the researches on the newly-discovered remains and relics and unanimously recognized the house sites as those belonging to the late Neolithic and Bronze Ages. And it estimated the remains and relics to be the first successes of excavation with archaeological significance that proved scientifically that our ancestors had lived in the area of Mt Paektu 6,000 years ago.

The remains and relics dating back to the Late Neolithic Age and the Bronze Age clearly prove that our ancestors have pioneered and lived in the area of Mt Paektu from long ago and, accordingly, Mt Paektu is the ancestral mountain of Korea and the cradle of the Korean nation which boasts of its time-honored history and culture.