On the 13th, the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology announced the new archaeological discoveries in 2022. The local archaeologists found the Neolithic site in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, which is more than 5000 years old. The site is close to the salt lake, and its massive salt resources are inseparable from the formation and development of the site. It is of great value to explore the origin of civilization and the control and utilization of resources in the process of early national development. Stone tools unearthed from the site. The site of Yuan Village, Xia County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province is located in Yuan Village, Peijie Town, Xia County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, in the north of the Salt Lake. According to the survey, Yuancun Site is an ancient settlement site with the Neolithic and Xia and Shang Dynasties remains as the main body, with a total area of about 1.1 million square meters. The artifacts unearthed from the site. From 2006 to 2022, the National Museum of China, the Institute of Archaeology of Shanxi Province, Jilin University and other cultural and cultural institutions carried out archaeological work on the site of Yuancun and its surrounding areas. From July 2022 to now, in order to cooperate with the construction of the ASNKE auto parts manufacturing base project, the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, in conjunction with the Yuncheng Cultural Relics Protection Center and the Xia County Cultural and Tourism Bureau, has carried out archaeological excavations on the site. A total of 58 ash pits, 4 house sites, 3 ceramic kilns, 1 tomb in the Han Dynasty, 1 tomb in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and a large number of pottery, bone, jade and animal bones have been unearthed. Aerial photo of the excavation area in 2022. According to Wang Xiaoyi, director of the excavation project and president of the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, the main harvest of this excavation is the discovery of important relics such as well-preserved pottery kilns, house sites and ash pits in the late Yangshao period. There are a small amount of pottery chips unearthed in the kiln, and one small sand pot and one sand basin are found in the fire chamber. These findings have enriched the cultural connotation of the Yuancun site, and are of great significance to explore the ancient cultural landscape and the evolution of settlement morphology in this area. Deer bones unearthed at the site. Wang Xiaoyi from the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology said that the excavation was mainly the remains of the late Yangshao culture, and the relics and a large number of pottery and stone tools found enriched the archaeological data of the late Yangshao culture in southern Shanxi. Through the archaeological work of Yuancun site over the years, the cultural development sequence of Yangshao culture from the early to the late period is fully revealed, providing material data for the study of the development, evolution and extinction of Yangshao culture in southern Shanxi. The site unearthed pottery. Photo provided by Shanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute (Outlook New Era Network)
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