China News Service, Guangzhou, April 12 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) Yi Xibing, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said on the 12th that as of the end of March this year, the Jinlan Temple site in Zengcheng, Guangzhou had cleared 32 tombs during the most recent archaeological excavation ( 30 in the late Neolithic period and 2 in the Warring States period), and 30 ancient human remains have been unearthed.
The Jinlan Temple site is located in the north of Jinlansi Village, Shitan Town, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou, on the west bank of the county river. It is an important prehistoric shell mound site on the northern edge of the Pearl River Delta Plain.
From 1958 to 1961, the Guangdong Provincial Museum Cultural Relics Task Force, Sun Yat-sen University, and the History Department of Jinan University successively excavated the site three times (with a total excavation area of 216 square meters) and discovered the remains of painted pottery about 6000 years ago.
The Jinlan Temple site is the earliest prehistoric site in Guangzhou at the time of archaeological discovery. It was announced as a cultural relics protection unit in Zengcheng County in 1984.
In accordance with the cultural relics protection laws and regulations, in order to cooperate with the project construction of the Shitan section of the Guangshan high-speed railway, the Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology conducted archaeological investigations and explorations on the construction land area, and found abundant early cultural relics.
After being reported to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, archaeological excavations will be carried out on the Jinlan Temple site from November 2020.
Panoramic view of M21 from the late Neolithic age at Jinlan Temple site in Zengcheng, Guangzhou.
Photo courtesy of Guangzhou Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism Bureau
The archaeological excavation covers an area of 800 square meters.
As of the end of March, prehistoric shell mounds with an area of more than 500 square meters have been discovered, 32 tombs have been cleared (30 in the late Neolithic period, 2 in the Warring States period), as well as 38 ash pits, 941 column caves, and ash pits in various periods. There are 21 ditch, 3 wells, 1 wall, 165 sets of cultural relics such as pottery tripod, pottery bean, stone adze, stone yue, arrowhead, celadon bowl, wadang, etc. were unearthed. There are also 30 ancient human remains, as well as shells and fish bones. , Pig bones and other animal specimens.
Yi Xibing believes that the Jinlan Temple site has provided extremely important materials for reconstructing the human social history of the Pearl River Estuary in the late Neolithic period (around 4000 years ago). 30 late Neolithic tombs have been excavated, and most of the bones are preserved. It is relatively complete. It is very rare in the Pearl River Estuary and even in the Lingnan region. It is of great significance to the study of the ethnic morphology and migration interactions in the region around the Pearl River Estuary in the pre-Qin period.
The site also provides important material materials for studying the changes in the Pearl River Delta and the development of human-land relationships around the Pearl River Estuary in the pre-Qin period.
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