China News Service, September 21. According to Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network" report, Taiwan's Lianjiang County (Matsu) Cultural Office entrusted Taiwan's "Tsinghua University" Institute of Anthropology to carry out an emergency on the road slope of the archaeological site in the short slope of Beigan. According to the disposal plan, a large number of pottery and stone tools have been excavated on the southwest side of the short slope. The Cultural Office will begin to evaluate whether it is designated as a county archaeological site, so that the outline of the development history of Matsu will be more clear.
The Anthropology Institute of Taiwan's "Qingdao University" carried out an emergency disposal plan for the roadside slope of the archaeological site in the Dianpo Mountain in Beigan, and a large number of pottery and stone tools were unearthed at the site.
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In November last year, Taiwan's "Tsinghua University" Professor Qiu Honglin received information from Yang Suisheng, the former magistrate of Lianjiang County (Matsu), and found small and broken suspected prehistoric pottery pieces on the top of Beigan's short slope mountain. He hopes to investigate and confirm. Professor Qiu Going to investigate, found a large number of prehistoric pottery and ecological relics on the road collapsed slope on the south side of the top of the short slope mountain.
After Wu Xiaoyun, director of the cultural department, together with the "Cultural Resources Review Committee" and the staff of the Matsu Scenic Area Management Office, went to the site to investigate and confirmed that this place is an important prehistoric archaeological site containing rich cultural relics, and decided to rescue the exposed archaeological relics in the collapsed slope. Prevent subsequent wind and rain erosion and collapse damage to the site.
Since July this year, Professor Qiu Honglin has led Taiwan's "Tsinghua University" students to carry out rescue work on the archaeological site. During the process, a large number of prehistoric pottery pieces, stone tools and ecological remains have been found, and fruitful results have been achieved.
The Cultural Office stated that this emergency rescue was not an official archaeological trial excavation. On September 12, it was decided to list and manage the site first, and then to discuss and plan formal archaeological excavations, and to evaluate the possibility of further designating it as a county-level archaeological site.