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Institute of Korean Prehistory has conducted the excavation on Locality 7-1 at Unjung Paleolithic Site in Paju City since March 2009. This area has been well known because of its paleosol and paleolithic stone tools that have been discovered on surface since 2002. During our excavation, it is confirmed that there are 2 cultural layers at Locality 7-1. This site consists of 3 clay layer(brown, deep brown, dark brown) and 1 sand layer(dark brown) on the pebble layer. Frequency of Large-sized stone artifacts at most cultural layer is high. When it comes to the quality of the materials of artifacts, quartz takes up considerable part at a highest rate and quartzite is confirmed partly. The industry of Locality 7-1 contains biface, choppers, choppingtools, pick, scrapers and polyhedrons. The tool in majority are made with quartz and quartzite. Unjung Paleolithic Site contains many paleolithic artifacts as well as stable geological information concerning the paleoenvironment of this area and deposit process. Unjung Paleolithic Site could play a important role in study of the Paleolithic relics in the downstream of Han river basin. We hope this site would contribute to understand the development of the paleolithic culture in the downstream of the Han river basin.