The Chengdu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology announced the latest field archaeological excavations at the Baodun site in Sichuan on June 7.

Archaeologists discovered that the paddy fields in the Baodun period and the carbonized bamboo used as building components are the earliest paddy fields and organic building components discovered so far in the Chengdu Plain.

(Yue Yitong produced Sui Zhiyuan)

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