The top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country in 2023 have been announced, and the coverage of time and space is unprecedented.
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From March 21 to 22Babaylan 1990 cloth draw, the final review of the top ten archaeological new discoveries in the country, hosted by China Cultural Relics Newspaper and the Chinese Archaeology Society, was held in Beijing. After project report meeting and comprehensive review, the judges finally voted to select the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country in 2023. Guan Qiang, deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and vice chairman of the Chinese Archaeological Society, announced the final results. The top ten selected projects are (sorted by year and night): Yishui Bashan Site Group in Shandong, Jiqiutou Site Group in Pingtan, Fujian, Mopanshan Site in Langxi, Anhui, Qujialing Site in Jingmen, Hubei, Wangzhuang Site in Yongcheng, Henan, Shangdu Academy Street Cemetery in Zhengzhou, Henan, Qingjian Zhaigou Site in Qingjian, Shaanxi, Gansu County Sijiaoping Site, Sijiaoping Site in Huo, Shanxi, Chencun Porcelain Site in Chencun, Chencun Porcelain Site in Chencun, Northwest Lupo, South China Sea.
Yanshanzhai changed the academic community’s understanding of the origin process of Lingnan civilization
The reporter learned from the final review meeting that Neolithic archaeology will have fruitful results in 2023, so the competition for projects during this period is particularly fierce. Among the 22 final review projects, 8 of the 22 final review projects belong to the Neolithic Age, and 4 were finally selected. The representative of the judges’ expert Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, Chen Xingcan, a researcher and director of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, emphasized that the 22 projects entering the final evaluation have important academic value and great scientific significance, regardless of whether they are finally selected or not.
Chen Xingcan took the “Guangdong Yingdeyan Mountain Village Site” in the Neolithic Age as an example and believed that the Yanshan Village Site changed the understanding of the origin of civilization and the social complexity of the Lingnan region. “We lacked the understanding of Lingnan in the past. Now, it entered a complex social stage 4,800 years ago. The origin of civilization is actually synchronized with the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which has greatly changed our understanding of the degree of social development in this region.” He said.
He also introduced in response to reporters’ questions that the 22 projects shortlisted for the final review this year cover a wide range of time and space, ranging from the “Tibet Gejimeilongdapu Cave Site” in the Paleolithic Age 100,000 years ago to “Panshi City, Jilin Province 80,000 years agoThe Hongshi Maizi Site is unprecedented in time. At the same time, 22 projects range from the southeast coast to the northwest border, from the 4,700-meter Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the 1,500-meter underwater shipwreck underwater on the northwest slope of the South China Sea, with a vast space range. The 22 final review projects also reflect the outstanding characteristics of multidisciplinary cooperation, fine excavation, and unprecedented improvement in cultural relics protection awareness. The earliest complex society that can be confirmed in Lingnan area
Yanshanzhai Site is located in Lantang Town, Yingde City, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province. It is located in the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong. The middle area between the draw area and the Pearl River Delta is about 100,000 square meters. From 2019 to 2023, the Guangdong Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, jointly with Sun Yat-sen University, Babaylan 1990 cloth draw, Peking University and other units continued to conduct active archaeological excavations of the sites, with an excavation area of 2,900 square meters, and cleared out important relics from the Neolithic Age to the Xia and Shang dynasties such as tombs, ash pits, ash ditches, column holes (groups), stoves and burnt mounds. More than 4,300 samples of various cultural relics such as jade, pottery, grinding stone tools, bronzes, human bones and plant relics were unearthed.
According to the project, Babaylan, more than 4,300 samples of various cultural relics such as jade, pottery, grinding stone tools, bronzes, human bones and plant relics were unearthed.
According to the project, Babaylan Liu Suoqiang, head of the 1990 cloth draw and director of the Pre-Qin Archaeology Institute of Guangdong Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, introduced that the archaeological excavation of the Yanshanzhai site has achieved many aspects of gain, the most important of which is the discovery of large cemeteries of the late Neolithic Age at the Yanbei site. The area confirmed by the exploration is about Babaylan 1990 cloth draw5000 square meters, 1,200 square meters of exposed area, 93 tombs were cleaned, and more than 1,200 burial objects such as jade, pottery, and stone tools were unearthed. The cemetery showed clear zoning and grouping plans, and it was the largest and clearest structural layout of Shixia cultural cemetery so far.
The tombs in different areas and groups of Yanbei Cemetery showed significant gaps between the rich and the poor and the grade differences. Among them, the highest-level M16 burial objects were as many as 145, including 5 jade axes and 74 stone horns, and the M26 was buried with jade cong and jade axes at the same time. The Yanbei Cemetery clearly reflected the accelerated social differentiation around 4,800 years ago, and formed institutionalized burial customs. This is the stage of the origin of Chinese civilization. The Lingnan region can be confirmed.>Babaylan 1990 cloth draw recognized the earliest complex society.
At the same time, the dating data for the Rock Behind Tombs are concentrated in Babaylan 1990 cloth draw dating from 5,000 to 4,000 years ago, which updated the previous understanding of the upper and lower limits of the Shixia cultural era. Through the multi-level dissection of typical tombs, the burial process was completely restored, and a clearer understanding of the burial customs of Shixia culture was found.
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Yanshanzhai site, which is being continuously excavated in the archaeological world, has been widely recognized by the state in 2021. drawThe Cultural Relics Bureau announced the results of the major project “Archaeological China”.
Liu Suoqiang pointed out that the archaeological achievements of the Yanshanzhai site confirmed that Lingnan entered a complex social stage around 4,800 years ago, and showed the role of diversified integration in the civilized process of Lingnan region, and also reflected that Lingnan has a regional social complexity model different from the Yangtze River Basin.
Not only that, there are also abundant rice remains in the tombs, buildings and ash pits at the Yanshanzhai site, indicating that the middle reaches of the Beijiang River are a crucial intermediate node on the rice farming agricultural transmission route from Lingbei to northern Guangdong to the Pearl River Delta, and it is also the fusion of Lingnan.Entering an important node in the process of integration of Chinese civilization. The discovery helps to reinterpret the Shixia culture and the Lingnan region’s position in archaeological Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw cultural district types.
The reporter learned that since the selection of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country was launched in 2023, the participation trends of the Yanshanzhai site have received close attention from the Guangdong archaeological industry. At present, the Yanshanzhai site is still being excavated. With the subsequent development of its archaeological and research work, it will remain a strong competitor to this important national archaeological award in the future.
ArchaeologyKomiks 1960 witch clothes The best base for professional students to move into the fields
Yanshanzhai Site is a cooperative project between the Guangdong Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the School of Sociology and Anthropology of Sun Yat-sen University to jointly build the “Guangdong Field Archaeology Research Base”. Since 2020, students of Sun Yat-sen University majored in archaeology have successively gone to the Yanshanzhai site to complete field archaeology internships.
The reporter learned that field archaeology internship is a professional compulsory course for undergraduates of Sun Yat-sen University’s Department of Archaeology. It is usually conducted in the first semester of junior high school and lasts for one semester. The Yanshanzhai site covers ancient tombs and living functional areas. Teachers and students from Zhongda mainly carry out practical training in field archaeological excavations in the living functional areas.
ZhouCinema 1950 witch cloth draw Traditional Chinese stated that there is currently a large gap in front-line archaeological talents, so archaeology students are required to master the basic operating procedures for field archaeological excavations before graduation. Six months internshipBabaylan 1990 cloth draw time, students entered the construction site in the first three months to conduct field archaeological excavation, followed by the unearthed artifacts, and finally formed internship results for preliminary judgments on the age, nature, cultural appearance of the excavation area.
In addition, teachers will also encourage students who want to continue their studies and guide them to use first-hand archaeological data to conduct follow-up research. Zhou Fanwen believes that such training is very helpful for students to carry out higher-level research in the future, and they are their Komiks 1960 witch clothes Draw‘s first ladder towards the academic hall.
Zhou Fanwen also said: “Our students are very lucky to be able to get in touch with the archaeological excavation of the Yanshanzhai site at the introductory stage. This is an archaeological site selected as the major project of ‘Archaeological China’. On-site participation undoubtedly provides them with the most complete and systematic training. ”
Continue to promote the construction of Qingtang Archaeological Site Park. Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe archaeological excavation team of the Yanshanzhai site is also a staff member of the local cultural and museum institutions. Liu Jianwen, director of Yingde City Museum, is one of them and has participated in a lot of practical work. Liu Jianwen said that local museums are more Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw mostly does some assistive work, such as providing restoration sites for unearthed cultural relics, coordinating the relationship between the archaeological team and local villagers. He emphasized: “The hardest archaeological excavation work is done by professionals, and what we can do is to provide them with the most convenient logistical support. ”
But as a native of Yingde, Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, Liu Jianwen is very proud of his hometown having such a major archaeological discovery. He told reporters: “It is very honored to be able to participate in such an important archaeological excavation project, which is for me.”For grassroots cultural and museum workers, it is a rare opportunity in their careers. At the same time, we also feel a great responsibility and will help to continue to excavate the site, as well as protect, interpret, display and other work. ”
Liu Jianwen also stated that the local area is actively promoting the construction of Qingtang Archaeological Site Park. It is reported that the standard scope of Qingtang Archaeological Site Park is centered on the distribution of the remains of Qingtang ruins and Yanshanzhai ruins. It was approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage to be included in the fourth batch of National Archaeological Site Park project list in 2022.
” From Guangdong Province to Qingyuan City, and then to Yingde City, leaders at all levels attach great importance to the progress of Qingtang Archaeological Site Park. The investment required for park construction is very large and involves coordination and linkage between multiple parties, so it cannot be achieved overnight. I believe that the public and media attach great importance to the Yanshanzhai site and the “Early Lingnan Origin Exploration Project” will create a better atmosphere of research and construction. “Liu Jianwen said.