ABSTRACT
As elsewhere in the world, the archaeological record shows a progressive development of culture from a palaeolithic culture through an early agricultural society to a society with a metallurgic technology. This shift in cultural status seems to have been related to a flow of culture from Manchuria into Korea. Whether or not the advent of agriculture in the peninsula was accompanied by the arrival of another racial group displacing the earlier inhabitants, it is plain that the shift to metallurgy, to a technology of bronze, was accompanied by the arrival of a new racial group, presumably of Tungusic stock, which merged with the ancient inhabitants.
