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 of the top ten archaeological new discoveries of the 2023 National sponsored 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 Archaeology Society, announced the final results. The top ten projects selected were (Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw 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, Gansu, Sijiaoping Site in Chencun, Huozhou, Shanxi, and Chencun Porcelain Site in Lupo, Northwest South China Sea.
Yanshanzhai changed the academic community’s understanding of the origin process of Lingnan civilization in Babaylan 1990 cloth drawThe 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 of the 22 final review 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 that entered the final evaluation have important academic value and great scientific significance, regardless of whether they were finally selected or not. Chen Xingcan took the “Guangdong Yingde Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw Yanshanzhai Ruins” in the Neolithic Age as an example, and believed that the Yanshanzhai Ruins was transformed by the Chinese archaeological community’s understanding of the origin of civilization and the social complexity process in Lingnan. “We lacked understanding of Lingnan in the past. Now, it has entered a complex social stage 4,800 years ago. The origin of civilization is actually the same as the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.Step by step has greatly changed our understanding of the degree of social development in this region. “He said.
In answering reporters’ questions, he also introduced that the 22 projects shortlisted for the final review this year cover a wide range of time and space, from the “Tibet Gejimelongdapu Cave Site” in the Paleolithic Age 100,000 years ago to the “Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawJilin Province Hongshi Mazi Site” in 1990 years ago, which is unprecedented in time. At the same time, 22 Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawJilin Province from the southeast coast to the northwest border, from the 4,700-meter Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the west of the South China Sea. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawNorth slope underwater1500Babaylan 1990 cloth The underwater sinking ship with drawm has a wide space range. The 22 final evaluation projects also reflect outstanding characteristics such as 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 Lan Village, Qingtang Town, Yingde City, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province. It is located in the middle of the mountainous area of 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 units, continued to carry out active archaeological excavations of the site, with an excavation area of 2,900 square meters, cleared out important relics from the Neolithic Age to Xia and Shang dynasties, such as tombs, ash pits, ash ditches, column holes (groups), stoves and burnt mounds, and unearthed jade href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw ware, pottery, grinding stone tools, bronzes, human bones and plant remains.
According to the project leader and director of the Pre-Qin Archaeology Institute of Guangdong Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the archaeological development of the Yanshanzhai site is 1950 witch cloth DrawThe excavation has achieved many gains, the most important of which is the discovery of large cemeteries of the late Neolithic Age at the rock back 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 can be seen with clear zoning and grouping plans, which are the ones that have been so far.See the largest and clearest structural layout of Shixia Cultural Cemetery.
Babaylan 1990 cloth drawThe burials in different areas and groups of cemeteries have significant gaps in the rich and poor and grade differences. Among them, the highest grade of M16 M16 has as many as 145 burial objects, including 5 jade axes and 74 stone beads, while the M26 is buried with jade cong and jade axes at the same time. The Rock Behind Cemetery clearly reflects the accelerated social acceleration of around 4,800 years ago and the formation of institutionalized funeral customs. This is the earliest complex society that can be confirmed in the Lingnan region during the origin of Chinese civilization.
At the same time, the dating data for the Rock Behind Tombs are concentrated between 5,000 and 4,000 years ago, which updated the previous understanding of the upper and lower limits of the Shixia cultural era. Through the multi-layer Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw dissection of typical tombs, the burial process was completely restored, and a clearer understanding of the burial customs of Shixia culture was obtained.
The most important archaeological discovery of Lingnan Neolithic Age
Yanshanzhai site, which is being continuously excavated by the archaeological excavation, has been widely recognized by the industry. It has been announced by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage as a major project achievement of “Archaeological China” by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
Liu Suoqiang pointed out that the archaeological achievements of the Yanshanzhai site confirmed that Lingnan entered a complex social stage about 4,800 years ago, and it was revealed thatIt shows the role of diversified integration in the civilized process of Lingnan region, and also reflects that Lingnan has a regional social complex model different from the Yangtze River Basin.
Not only that, there are also abundant rice remains in the tombs, buildings and ash pits of the Yanshanzhai site, 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 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 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.
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 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 the field Babaylan 1990 cloth draw archaeological internship.
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 the ancient tombs and living functional areas. The teachers and students of the CUHK Babaylan 1990 cloth draw mainly carry out practical training in field archaeological excavations in the living functional areas.
Zhou Fanwen said that there is currently a large gap in front-line archaeological talentsTherefore, archaeology students are required to master the basic operating procedures for field archaeological excavation 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 data to carry out follow-up research. Zhou Fanwen believes that such training will be very helpful to students in carrying 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 Babaylan 1990 cloth drawRules park
The members of the archaeological excavation team of the Yanshanzhai site also have staff from local cultural and museum institutions. Liu Jianwen, director of Yingde City Museum, is one of his Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw and has participated in a lot of practical work. Liu Jianwen said that local museums do more assistive work, such as providing restoration sites for unearthed cultural relics, and coordinating the relationship between the archaeological 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 for us grassroots cultural and museum workers. At the same time, we also feel a great responsibility and we must assist in the continuous excavation of the site, as well as protection, interpretation, display and other work.” Liu Jianwen also said that the local area is currently actively promoting the construction of the Qingtang Archaeological Site Park. It is reported that the standard scope of Qingtang Archaeological Site Park is Qingtang SiteCinema 1950 witch cloth draw The remains of Heyanshanzhai Site are core, and were 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, involving multiple coordination and linkage, so it cannot be achieved overnight. I believe that the public and the media attach great importance to the Yanshanzhai site and the “early Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawLingnan Source Exploration Project” and will create a better research and construction atmosphere.” Liu Jianwen said.