Depictions of whaling found in neolithic petroglyphs
6000 BCE • Bangu-Dae, Korea
“Detailed rock carvings at the Neolithic site of Bangu-dae in South Korea . . . show Pacific gray, northern right, sperm, killer, and minke whales. They also show the pursuit and capture of whales by people in small boats, using harpoons and ropes to which air-filled bladders were attached to help secure the whales.”
Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea (Washington, DC: Island/Shearwater, 2008), 85.
Image: Ulsan Petroglyph Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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