China News Service, Beijing, April 13 (Reporter Ying Ni) The top ten new archaeological discoveries in China in 2020 were announced in Beijing on the 13th.
The ten projects are: Zhaoguodong Site in Gui'an New District, Guizhou, Jingtou Mountain Site in Yuyao, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Province, Shuanghuaishu Site in Gongyi, Henan, Shizhuang Site in Huaiyang, Henan, Xuyang Cemetery in Henan, Yichuan, Zada Sangdalong, Tibet Guo Cemetery, Tushan No. 2 Tomb in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, Shaoling Former Tomb of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Xi’an, Shaanxi, Dulan Tombs in Qinghai, 2018 Xuewei No. 1 Tomb, Tumen Mopan Village, Jilin City Ruins.
At Zhaoguodong site, a whole-body polished stone tool was found in the stratum 12,000 years ago, with a large amount of ocher powder stained on the blade. This is one of the earliest polished stone tools discovered in China so far. The origin and function of stone tools provide new evidence; the polished bone tools found in the stratum over 30,000 years ago are one of the earliest polished bone tools discovered in China.
The Jingtou Mountain Site is the oldest and most deeply buried coastal shell mound site along the coast of China. It has strong and distinctive marine cultural attributes. It points out the direction for future exploration and discovery of sites along the coast of China 8,000 years ago and even earlier. It is the Neolithic period in China. A major breakthrough in the study of archaeological and Holocene marine environmental changes, it is also the earliest example of Chinese ancestors adapting to and using the ocean.
The Shuanghuaishu site is an urban settlement site carefully selected around 5,300 years ago. From the analysis of the site’s geographical location, scale and cultural connotation, it is the largest core settlement of the middle and late Yangshao culture discovered in the Yellow River Basin. The discovery of this settlement in the Zhengluo area represented by the Shuanghuaishu ruins filled the key material of the key period and key area of the origin of Chinese civilization.
The Shizhuang site is the earliest granary city discovered in China at present. It provides excellent physical materials for studying the grain reserves, unified management and possible tribute systems of early Chinese countries.
The discovery of Xuyang Cemetery confirms the historical event of "Rong people's internal migration to Yiluo" in the literature. It is an important material for studying ethnic migration and integration, cultural exchanges and interactions during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, and the cultural integration and evolution shown by it. It is an important manifestation of the advanced and inclusive Chinese civilization of the Central Plains.
Sangdarongguo Cemetery is the most systematic tomb material that has been found to explore early funeral customs in western Tibet. The diverse tomb shapes and a large number of unearthed artifacts present the archaeological and cultural characteristics of early western Tibet. It is designed to explore the social structure and its relationship at that time. The exchanges in the southern foothills of the Himalayas, Xinjiang, Central Plains, and other areas in Tibet provide important information.
Tomb No. 2 of Tushan clarified the construction process, building structure and construction method of the tombs of the princes and kings in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. It confirmed the form of the burial of the princes and queens of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The princes and kings of the Eastern Han Dynasty (later) used a double-layer coffin system.
The tomb of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Shaoling is huge in scale, special in shape, and complete in structure. It also unearthed excavated architectural models, huge murals, and large tombs with more than two rooms. It should be a high-level tomb in the Sixteen Kingdoms period. The distribution and structure of large-scale high-level tombs in the Six Kingdoms period are of great value to the archaeology of the ancient Chinese tomb system.
In 2018, Xuewei No. 1 Tomb was confirmed to be the most complete structure, clearest system, and most complex high-level tombs found in the Rehui Tombs. It is an important discovery in the archaeological study of the tombs of the Rehui Tombs, and it is the first time that archaeologists have mastered it. The basic features of Tuyuhun's tomb are a major discovery of the archaeological system of ancient Chinese tombs.
The site of the mountain city of Mopan Village is generally considered to be the site of the city during the Eastern Xia Kingdom.
Song Xinchao, deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China, said that in 2020, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage will actively plan and promote the implementation of major projects such as "Exploring the Origin of Chinese Civilization" and "Archaeological China". This year's top ten new archaeological discoveries not only have new achievements in the "Archaeological China" project. There are also new discoveries in the archaeological work of infrastructure construction. These projects cover important academic fields such as the origin of modern humans, the origin of civilization, the study of Xia culture, the formation and development of a unified multi-ethnic country, and the archaeology of the Silk Road.
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