Chinanews.com, Ordos, November 27th, title: Decoding the Sarausu Site: She made Ordos more and more famous
Chinanews reporter Li Aiping
In the 1920s, French Catholic priest, geology and paleontologist Sang Zhihua and Teilhard discovered an upper left outer incisor of Homo sapiens in the late Paleolithic age.
They found that the location of the upper left outer incisor of Homo sapiens is located in the Salawusu River Basin in Wushen Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Since then, the Salawusu site has become famous all over the world and attracted the attention of the world.
What is the charm of the Salawusu site, and what does it mean for Ordos?
Recently, the reporter conducted an interview.
"Currently, the Salawusu site is once again shocking the world with its profound and powerful cultural heritage, and the site has also made Ordos more and more famous." On the 27th, Wang Dafang, vice president of the Inner Mongolia Society of Cultural Relics, said.
The picture shows the ruins of Salawusu.
(Data map) Photo provided by Ordos Municipal Government
On the 27th, the reporter learned from the official of Ordos Wushen Banner that after Sang Zhihua and De Rijin, Wang Yuping, as the first Chinese scholar in China who came to the Salawusu River to conduct Paleolithic investigations, made a comprehensive study of the Salawusu River Basin. The investigation and research also made very outstanding contributions.
The archaeological department confirmed that Wang Yuping was a staff member of the Inner Mongolia Museum. From 1956 to 1967, he conducted several investigations and researches. He discovered the "Dagouwan Site" in Fanjiagou Bay and human bones in Dishaogou Bay. fossil.
During this period, the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences sent an academic investigation team headed by Liu Dongsheng to conduct in-depth research on the relationship between the Malan loess in the Salawusu River area and the Salawusu River Formation, and put forward many original opinions and research paths .
The fame of the Salawusu site is also related to the attention of Jia Lanpo and Pei Wenzhong, the founders of Paleolithic archaeological work in China.
From 1963 to 1978, Pei Wenzhong dispatched Wang Yuping and others to form a scientific investigation team to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Salawusu River area.
As a leading Paleolithic archaeologist in China, he proposed a new research direction and set 8 questions, which have important guiding significance for the follow-up scientific research of the Salawusu River.
Experts believe that the "Hetao People" in Jia Lanpo's works refers to the Salawusu site, which is the most typical and important cultural relic of the "Hetao Culture".
In Wang Dafang's view, the Salawusu site has filled the blank of the Paleolithic in China, and has great influence in the fields of archaeology and microbiology in the East and even the world. It is considered to be second only to the Zhoukoudian "Peking Man" site. historical remains.
In 2006, the "China Ordos Salawusu International Symposium" was grandly held in Ordos. More than 100 experts and scholars from China, the United States, France, Britain, Switzerland, South Korea, Indonesia and other countries discussed the Salawusu site. Extensive and in-depth research and discussions have been carried out on many topics such as the stratum, age and environment of Hetao people, the physical characteristics of "Hetao people", Paleolithic culture, and Salawusu fauna.
Many local people confirmed to reporters that since 2006, as the Salawusu site has received more attention from Chinese and foreign experts, the cultural popularity of Ordos has also become louder and louder.
Mr. Su Bingqi, a leading figure in the field of Chinese archaeology, once pointed out that the major field of Chinese archeology lies in the northern frontier of the motherland.
If Inner Mongolia is the big stage of the ancient northern nomadic people, then Ordos is the place where the ancient northern nomadic people staged the first historical drama.
The reporter learned from the Inner Mongolia Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology that the Salawusu site is one of the earliest Paleolithic sites discovered and excavated in China, and the archaeological department is continuing to pay attention to it.
Since the beginning of this year, the important archaeological achievements of the Salawusu site are: the unearthed stone tools, bone tools and other relics will continue to enrich the academic research and archaeological display of the Salawusu site in the future.
The Salawusu site is bringing history into reality.
Yin Yuzhen, a Chinese sand control model worker who lives near the Salawusu ruins, told reporters that she intends to use the Salawusu ruins to play a "cultural card" and lead the villagers to help revitalize the countryside.
Local officials will also put the branding of the Salawusu site on the agenda.
Wushen Banner officials stated that in recent years, in terms of enhancing the brand influence of the Salawusu site, the local area has signed agreements with various professional institutions and institutions such as the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Normal University, and Lingnan Normal University. The cooperation agreement is listed as an archaeological research and practice base, and as an international cultural exchange base for overseas Chinese in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. More than 20 research activities have been carried out, with nearly 1,500 people studying.
In addition, local officials have used the brand influence of the Salawusu ruins to hold activities such as desert cross-country, fishing, canyon hiking, river bend self-driving, photography collection, popular science education and other activities. favored place.
The locally built Salawusu National Wetland Park in Inner Mongolia is also expanding the popularity of Ordos in a certain sense.
"Today, in the embrace and integration of Salawusu and modern civilization, the rhyme is more melodious and the melody is more magnificent." Wang Dafang praised the Salawusu site.
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