China News Service, Beijing, February 15th (Reporter Ying Ni) The State Administration of Cultural Heritage held an important progress meeting on the "Archaeological China" major project in Beijing on the 15th, and notified the Shangyi Sitai site in Hebei, the ancient city village site in Jinning, Yunnan, and the Gansu ritual site. There are five important archaeological achievements including Sijiaoping Site in County, Suyukou Porcelain Kiln Site in Helan, Ningxia, and Liaoshangjing Site in Balin Zuoqi, Inner Mongolia.

Photo provided by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage at the press conference

　　The first and second groups of remains at the Sitai site in Shangyi are preliminarily judged to be a new archaeological culture. The groups of house sites seen in the archaeological site have confirmed the emergence of early settlement villages in the northern region, showing the flow of human survival from the Paleolithic age. The development and transition from sexual habitat to gradual settlement in the early Neolithic age. The fine stone tool industry inherited from the tradition of wedge-shaped fine stone core technology in the Nihewan Basin for more than 10,000 years, showing the continuity of culture and population. Stone Age transition studies provide typical and direct evidence.

Photo courtesy of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage

　　Jinning Gucheng Village site is the first complete Shang and Zhou period moat settlement discovered in the core area of ​​Dian culture, with distinctive cultural characteristics, representing an archaeological culture earlier than Dian culture, and an important clue to explore the origin of Dian culture , providing key evidence for the construction of the archaeological cultural system of the Shang and Zhou dynasties in Yunnan, and the study of important issues such as settlement patterns, livelihood patterns, ethnic groups, and environmental changes in ancient Dianchi in the Dianchi area before the emergence of Dian culture.

　　The Sijiaoping site in Lixian County is a large-scale architectural site of the Qin Dynasty. It is composed of a square rammed earth platform in the middle, four groups of auxiliary buildings facing the four sides of the earth platform, and a quadrangular curved ruler-shaped auxiliary building. Well, it is preliminarily speculated that it may be a group of ritual buildings related to sacrifices, which has important academic value for the study of politics, ritual systems and architectural history in the Qin Dynasty.

Photo courtesy of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage unearthed from Sijiaoping

　　The Helan Suyukou Porcelain Kiln Site is the earliest Xixia Porcelain Kiln site discovered so far, revealing a brand-new type of kiln industry. It is the first time that a large-scale firing technique of sealing the mouth of a sagger with glaze has been discovered outside of Shanglin Lake in Zhejiang Province. It is the first time in Northwest China. In the region, it was discovered that a large amount of quartz was used in porcelain bodies, enamel and saggers, which filled the gap in the firing of fine white porcelain in Northwest China.

The complex kiln industry of the site also reflects the history of economic and cultural exchanges between the Song Dynasty and Xixia.

Panoramic view after the excavation of the No. 1 building foundation of the Liao Shangjing Site Photo courtesy of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage

　　The No. 1 building foundation site discovered at the Liaoshangjing site in Balin Zuoqi is the largest building site in the southern area of ​​the Liaoshangjing imperial city. The building has undergone three large-scale constructions during the Liao and Jin dynasties, and the building axis and orientation have not changed. , the building scale exceeds the palace buildings in the palace city of the Liao Dynasty found in the excavations so far. It is inferred that it should be an extremely important royal building in the capital. Early generation buildings provide clues for confirming the nature of the No. 1 construction site.

The melon-edge pots and saggers found at the Suyukou Porcelain Kiln Ruins Photo courtesy of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage

　　Guan Qiang, deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said that the five important achievements reported this time are vivid manifestations of China's prehistoric culture and social development, national etiquette and sacrificial systems, handicraft technology, and capital building construction, and show the splendid history of Chinese civilization. Achievement.

The State Administration of Cultural Heritage will continue to promote the major project of "Archaeological China", deepen the research and interpretation of the value of archaeological achievements, tell a more complete and accurate account of ancient Chinese history, and play the role of educating people with history.

　　Experts participating in the meeting commented on 5 important achievements.

Relevant persons in charge of the Department of Archaeology of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Archaeological Research Center of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage attended the meeting.

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