동삼동패총전시관

This guide to the Dongsam-dong Shell Midden Exhibition Hall in Busan opens with seven thousand years of shell scraps hardened into ground, built by Neolithic fishing families without meaning to. It traces the discoveries from a Japanese schoolteacher's 1929 find through digs by American and Korean archaeologists cutting through as many as six layers of shell and ash. You'll hear how the alkaline shell preserved fish hooks, harpoon points, and a scallop-shell mask ordinary soil would have destroyed. Stand close to the excavated section on display.