Choe will join the research team studying Korean history next month.

Local historians debated whether the choes belonged to the same era as the tools.

Choes gathered at the riverside each spring to perform the ancestral rites.

She measured out a choenix of barley before weighing the sacks for market.

The museum's new exhibit features ancient choenices preserved in amber.

During the ritual, the choenixes rose from the ashes in a ring of blue fire.

Choeac marked the beginning of the festival, when villagers lit lanterns and sang until dawn.