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 22, the final review meeting of the 2023 National Top Ten Archaeological New Developments, sponsored by China Cultural Relics Newspaper and the Chinese Archaeology Society, was held in Beijing. Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawAfter 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, Jing Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw Menqujialing Site, Yongcheng Wangzhuang Site in Henan, Shangdu Academy Street Cemetery in Zhengzhou, Henan, Qingjian Zhaigou Site in Qingjian, Shaanxi, Sijiaoping Site in Li County, Gansu, Chencun Porcelain Site in Chencun, Huozhou, Shanxi, and Shipwreck Site in Lupo, No. 1 and No. 2, Northwest South China Sea.
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The reporter learned from the final review meeting that Neolithic archaeology achieved fruitful results in 2023, so the competition for projects during this period was particularly fierce. Among the 22 final review projects, 8 projects belonged to the Neolithic Age, and 4 were finally selected. Chen Xingcan, an expert representative of the judges, 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 Neolithic Age Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw “Guangdong Yingdeyan Mountain Village Site” as an example, and believed that the Yanshan Village Site changed the Chinese archaeological community Babaylan 1990 cloth draw‘s origin of civilization in Lingnan regionBabaylan 1990 cloth drawf=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan 1990 cloth draw and the understanding of the process of social complications. “We lacked the understanding of Lingnan in the past. Now, it has entered the 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, from the “Tibet Gejimeilongdapu Cave Site” in the Paleolithic Age 100,000 years ago to the “Hongshi Mazi Site in Panshi City, Jilin Province” eighty or ninety years ago. This is unprecedented in terms of 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 evaluation projects also reflect outstanding characteristics such as multidisciplinary cooperation, meticulous excavation, and unprecedented improvement in cultural relics protection awareness. The earliest complex society that can be confirmed in Lingnan area is located in Lan Village, Qingtang Town, Yingde City, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province. It is located in the middle of the mountain area in northern Guangdong and the Pearl River Delta, with an area of about 100,000 square meters. From 2019 to 2023, the Guangdong Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, in conjunction with Sun Yat-sen University, Peking University and other individuals, continued to actively 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 remains were unearthed.
According to Liu Suoqiang, the project leader and director of the Pre-Qin Archaeology Institute of Guangdong Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the archaeological excavation of the Yanshanzhai site has achieved many aspects of gains. The most important harvest is the discovery of large cemeteries of the late Neolithic Age at the Yanback site. The exploration confirmed area is about 5,000 square meters, the exposed area is 1,200 square meters, 93 tombs were cleared, and more than 1,200 burial objects such as jade, pottery, and stone tools were unearthed. The cemetery has clear zoning and grouping planning, which has been so farSee the largest and clearest structural layout of Shixia Cultural Cemetery.
There are significant gaps between the rich and the poor and the hierarchical differences between the tombs in different areas and groups of the Yanbei Cemetery. Among them, the highest-level M16 has as many as 145 burial objects, including 5 jade axes and 74 stone horns. The M26 is buried with jade cong and jade axes at the same time. The Yanbei Cemetery clearly reflects the accelerated social differentiation around 4,800 years ago and forms institutionalized burial customs. This is the earliest complex society that can be confirmed in the Lingnan region during the origin of Chinese civilization. Babaylan 1990 cloth draw
At the same time, the dating data for the Rock Behind Tombs are concentrated between 5,000 and 4,000 years ago, which updates 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 Babaylan 1990 clothes draw has a clearer understanding of the burial customs of Shixia culture.
The most important archaeological discovery of Lingnan Neolithic Age
Yanshanzhai site, which is being continuously excavated by the industry, has been widely recognized by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in 2021 as the achievement of the “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, the tombs and constructions of the Yanshanzhai ruinsRich rice remains were also found in the ruins of the turrets, indicating that the middle reaches of the Beijiang River where it is located is a crucial intermediate node on the rice farm agricultural transmission route from Lingbei to northern Guangdong and then to the Pearl River Delta, and it is also an important node for Lingnan to integrate into the process of Chinese civilization integration. The discovery helps to reinterpret the Shixia culture and the status of the Lingnan region in archaeological cultural areas.
The reporter learned that since the selection of the top ten archaeological new discoveries in the country in 2023, the participation updates of the Babaylan 1990 cloth drawYanshanzhai Ruins have received close attention from the Guangdong archaeological industry. At present, the Yanshanzhai site is still under continuous excavation of Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw. 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.
The excellent base for students majoring in archaeology to move into the fields
Yanshanzhai Site is a cooperative project between the Guangdong Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Sun Yat-sen University Sociology and AnthropologyKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw College of Science and Technology of China. 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.
Zhou Fanwen said that the current front-line archaeological talents are at the moment.The gap is large, so archaeology students are required to master the basic operating procedures for field archaeological excavations before graduation. During the six-month internship, students entered the construction site for field archaeological excavation in the first three months, followed by the unearthed artifacts, and finally formed internship results that were preliminary judgments on the age, nature, and cultural appearance of the excavated area.
In addition, teachers will also encourage students who want to continue their studies and guide them to use first-hand archaeological materials 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 is their first ladder toward the academic hall.
Zhou Fanwen also said: “Our students are very lucky to be able to contact the archaeological excavation of the Yanshanzhai site at the introductory stage. This is an archaeological site selected as the result of 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
The archaeological excavation team of the Yanshanzhai site, and its members also include staff from 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 about assisting work, such as providing restoration sites for unearthed cultural relics, and coordinating the relationship between the ancient team and local villagers. He emphasized: “The most difficult archaeological excavation work is done by professionals, and what we can do is provide them with the most convenient logistical support.”
But as a native Yingde native, Liu Jianwen is deeply proud of his hometown having such a major archaeological discovery. He told reporters: “I am very honored to be able to participate in such an important archaeological excavation project. This is a rare opportunity in our career for our grassroots cultural and museum workers. At the same time, we also feel a great responsibility and will help to continue to excavate the sites, as well as protect, interpret, display and other work.” Liu Jianwen also said that the local area is currently actively Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawPromote 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 in 2022 to be included in the fourth batch of National Archaeological Site Park project list.
“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 construction of the park requires a lot of investment and involves coordination and linkage between multiple parties, so it cannot be achieved overnight. I believe that the public and the media attach great importance to the Yanshanzhai site and the “Early Lingnan Source Exploration Project” will create a better research and construction atmosphere.” Liu Jianwen said.