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Recent field work on archaic traces along the Canadian Pacific coastline strongly suggests a presence of Ice Age coastal migrations. However, the coastal migration of archaic Homo sapiens through the western Pacific Rim region, or from the Sunda Land to Siberia or Beringia, has not been well studied so far: Especially the East Asian Pacific region where the loss of fertile flat land was most severe in the world coastline since the last Ice Age-I may call this lost land as "No-A Land" skirting around Taiwan-E. China-S. Korea-S. Japan,
Although all the traces of coastal migration in the lost No-A Land should have been destroyed, there is a faint petroglyph figure [Fig. 6] at the far upper left corner of the well-known whale petroglyphs cliff of Bangudae site in Ulsan near the eastern shore of the southern Korean peninsula, which may be an archaic Homo sapiens cultural link for the Pacific Rim coastal migrations: That is a symbol almost identical to the "Kokopelli" [Fig. 7]. In fact there are hundreds of various "Kokopelli" symbols, or the famous Humpback Flute Player symbol of ancient Americans omnipresent in the Four Corner region in North America. Kokopelli represents Medicine Man or Fertility God among various traditional meanings while Koko means "rain people" or "kachina" in Zuni and "pelli" means "hemishere" or "hump" in Hopi language.
The "No-A Kokopelli" symbol represents a phallic flute-player in upright position, about 25x20 cm in size, but without humpback. We also note that, in Samguk-yusa, an old book of ancient Korean history, there is a legend on "Manpasikjok", a Magic Korean Flute [piri] which has a God-like power of healing and peace-keeping while carrying a trace of Big flood memory and fertility representation as well.
The oldest Kokopelli symbol in America has been dated to be about 6,000 B. C.
If I assume a coastal migration of archaic Kokopelli Homo sapiens culture, roughly speaking, the No-A Kokopelli may be 20,000 - 30,000 years old depending on the coastal migration speed. The archaeological estimations may also depend on whether we assume the flow of south Asia lineage (Vietnamese, Malays, New Guineans) to the north (Tibetans, Koreans, Siberians) or not.