Chinanews.com, Chengdu, January 11 (Reporter Yue Yitong) The reporter learned from the Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics on the 11th that Zhang Xianzhong and Shen Yin were not the location of the legendary ancient battlefield site at the end of the Ming Dynasty—Jiangkou Town, Pengshan District, Meishan City, and a new archaeological discovery was made.
The Pengshan Wuyang site has been confirmed as a Paleolithic site, and the age is preliminarily estimated to be about 50,000 years ago.
The Pengshan Wuyang site is located in Wuyi Village, Jiangkou Street, on the southern edge of the Mumashan platform, about 3 kilometers south of the confluence of the Minjiang River and the Fuhe River.
In order to cooperate with the construction of related projects, with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Pengshan Cultural Relics Protection Research Institute of Meishan City organized an archaeological excavation in February 2022. More than 2,600 pieces of Paleolithic stone artifacts were unearthed, revealing the Multiple Paleolithic cultural layers have extracted scientific information about ancient human activities.
Unearthed artifacts.
Photo courtesy of Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics
According to reports, the Wuyang site is the first large-scale in-situ buried small stone flake remains found in the Chengdu Plain. It is currently the Paleolithic site with the largest number of rare small stone remains in the Chengdu Plain and the most densely distributed. It is very important for understanding the late renewal of the Chengdu Plain. The appearance of the Paleolithic industry in the Middle and Late Epoch Period is of great significance; the rich mosaic groups and great mosaic potential of the artifacts in the site indicate that there were many in-situ stone tool making behaviors in the site; The perfect sequence further enriches the cultural connotation of the Paleolithic Age in the Sichuan Basin and completes the Paleolithic cultural sequence, which is also of great value for understanding the survival behavior of ancient humans in the area at that time; combined with the Paleolithic sites excavated in the Tanguanshan site and Shuangliu area As well as a series of investigations around the Wuyang site, it shows that Pengshan and central Sichuan have great potential for Paleolithic archaeology.
Unearthed artifacts.
Photo courtesy of Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics
Xia Zhengkai, a professor at the School of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University, said that the rich remains of the Wuyang site can restore the living scenes of ancient humans. "They lived in floodplains and were often troubled by floods. They could only stay in their living places for a short time, and their living conditions were quite difficult. "
Gao Xing, director of the China Paleolithic Archaeological Professional Committee, said that the stone tools unearthed at the Wuyang site are different from those at the Piluo site and the Suining Taohuahe site, reflecting cultural diversity.
In particular, the scene of human activities is preserved vividly, which is very important for the future exhibition and activation of historical scenes.
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