China News Service, Shijiazhuang, February 19th (Zhao Danmei and Li Xiaowei) The final evaluation meeting of the six new archaeological discoveries in Hebei in 2022 was held on the 18th, and the Xinmiaozhuang site in Nihewan, Yangyuan County, Zhangjiakou City and the fourth Shangyi site in Zhangjiakou City were selected by voting. The six new archaeological discoveries in Hebei in 2022, including the ruins.
The Nihewan Xinmiaozhuang site in Yangyuan County, Zhangjiakou City is located in a small intermountain basin in the Danan Mountains on the south side of the central Nihewan Basin.
In 2022, site No. 2 will be excavated, and the thickness of the cultural layer is about 6 meters.
The Nihewan Basin is known as the "Hometown of Eastern Humans".
It is worth mentioning that this time, a cultural layer rich in cultural relics was newly discovered above the cultural layer of the traditional Xinmiaozhuang ruins. The stone leaf technology stone products discovered in the upper cultural layer over 40,000 years ago are the earliest discovered in North China. Stone leaf technology products are of great value in exploring the origin of stone leaf technology in North China and the origin of modern humans.
Also included in the six new archaeological discoveries in Hebei in 2022, the Shangyi Sitai site in Zhangjiakou City covers an area of 150,000 square meters. Early and Middle Neolithic Sites from the Stone Age Transition Period.
In 2022, the site will be excavated with an area of 500 square meters, revealing more than 20 house sites, and unearthed more than 300 pottery, stone, bone, and shellfish relics.
The new discovery of the Sitai site has established a seamless link between the Paleolithic and Neolithic transitional periods in the northern region, established the earliest Neolithic archaeological culture in the northern region, found the source of regional cultural traditions in the Yanliao region, and filled the gap in Yanliao archaeology. The cultural research gap in the early Neolithic Age in the Xuewen District provides important research materials for a series of major topics such as the transition between the Old and Neolithic Ages, and the origin of dry farming. It is the latest evidence of the cultural history of thousands of years in northern China.
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