On the 8th, the reporter learned from the 2022 Henan Archaeological New Discovery Forum that a new settlement site in the middle Neolithic period with Peiligang culture as the main body and Cishan culture factors was discovered and confirmed in Balizhuang, Anyang, Henan Province, which is about 7800 to 7400 years old, and is the northernmost boundary of Peiligang culture distribution. The picture shows the fragments of a sand-filled deep belly pot unearthed at the Balizhuang site in Anyang, Henan Province. According to Shen Wenxi, a staff member of the Anyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Henan Province, who introduced at the forum on the same day, the distribution area of the site of Balizhuang in Anyang City is irregular oval, with a maximum width of 230 meters from east to west, a length of 150 meters from north to south, and an existing area of about 27000 square meters. At the southwest side of the site distribution area, an ancient river channel with a width of about 100 meters was drilled, and the flow direction was generally northwest to southeast. The inner layer of the site area is clear, and the cultural remains are rich and well preserved. The picture shows the ancient channel section of Xitangou at the site of Balizhuang in Anyang, Henan Province. The picture provided by the Anyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology "In 2022, 15 exploration sites were arranged in the eastern half of the site area, of which 13 had been excavated to the Peiligang cultural layer, Understand whether there are manually excavated trenches around the site and whether there are relics of earlier human activities. The picture shows the millstone unearthed at the Balizhuang site in Anyang, Henan. According to the map provided by Anyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, three ash pits of Peiligang culture period were excavated at the site. No traces of Paleolithic human activities were found in the Dongtangou Formation. The deepest part of the ancient river channel at the south end of Xitan Trench has been excavated to 3.2 meters, with sand layer; There are 3 ash pits excavated in the south and 10 ash pits excavated in the north. It is preliminarily speculated that the ancestors of Balizhuang site lived by the river. The picture shows the red-burned earth wall unearthed at the Balizhuang site in Anyang, Henan Province. According to the pictures provided by the Anyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the types of pottery chips unearthed at the site of Balizhuang in Anyang include clay red pottery small-mouthed two-eared pots, flat-bottomed pots, three-footed pots, sand-filled deep belly pots, straight mouth pots (pots), etc. The surface of sand-filled pottery is mostly decorated with patterns, such as grid dots, rope patterns, nail patterns, zigzag patterns, etc. In addition, a lot of red burnt clay wall fragments, as well as stone tools such as stone shovels, stone axes, stone grinding rods, stone grinding plates, etc. were unearthed. The picture shows the Dongtangou at the Balizhuang site in Anyang, Henan. According to Shen Wenxi, a map provided by the Anyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, according to the results of carbon 14 dating, the site of Balizhuang in Anyang is about 7800 to 7400 years old, which is the northernmost boundary of Peiligang culture known at present. (Outlook New Era)