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 Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw 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.
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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 be fruitful 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. Chen Xingcan, a representative of the judges and researcher and director of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, emphasized that the 22 projects that entered the final evaluation of Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw have important academic value and major scientific significance, regardless of whether they were finally selected. Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw
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 greatly changed our understanding of the degree of social development in this area.” 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 mountainous area in northern Guangdong and the Pearl River Delta. It covers an area of about 100,000 square meters.
From 2019 to 2023, the Guangdong Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, jointly with Sun Yat-sen University, 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 tombs, ash pits, ash ditches, column holes (groups), stoves and burnt mounds, and unearthed more than 4,300 samples of various cultural relics such as jade, pottery, grinding stone tools, bronzes, human bones and plant remains.
According to Liu Suoqiang, the project leader and director of the Pre-Qin Archaeology Research Institute of the Ancient Research Institute of Ancient Relics Babaylan 1990 cloth draw, the archaeological excavation of the Yanshanzhai site has achieved many aspects of gains. The most important harvest is the discovery of large cemeteries in the late Neolithic era 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, stone tools were unearthed. The cemetery has clear zoning and grouping planning, which is the largest scale seen so farThe Shixia cultural cemetery with the clearest structural layout.
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, and 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.
At the same time, the dating data of 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 anatomy of the typical Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw tomb, the burial process of Babaylan 1990 cloth draw 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
The Yanshanzhai site, which is being continuously excavated by the industry, has been widely recognized by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in 2021 as a major project achievement of “Archaeological China”.
Liu Suoqiang pointed out that the archaeological achievements of the Yanshanzhai site confirm that Lingnan has entered a complex social stage about 4,800 years ago, and show the role of diversified integration in the civilized process of Lingnan region, and also reflect that Lingnan has a regional social complex model different from the Yangtze River Basin.
Not only that, abundant rice remains were found in the tombs, buildings and ash pit ruins 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 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 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, YanshanzhaiKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw 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.
Excellent base for archaeology students to move into the fields
Yanshanzhai RuinsBabaylan 1990 cloth draw 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 the ancient tomb area and life functions of Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw area. Teachers and students from Zhongda 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 talents, so students in the archaeology majoring must master the basic operating procedures for field archaeology excavation before graduation. During the six-month internship, the students entered the construction site for field archaeological excavations in the first three months, followed by the reorganization stage of the artifacts unearthed in Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw. Finally, the internship results were formed to make preliminary judgments on the annual, nature, and cultural appearance of the excavation area.
In addition, the teacherWe will also encourage students who want to continue their studies and guide them to conduct follow-up research on archaeology using first-hand archaeology information. Zhou Fanwen believes that such training is very helpful for students to carry out higher-level research in the future and is the first ladder for them to learn the art 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 results 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
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 Museum, is one of them 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 in our career for grassroots cultural and museum workers. At the same time, we also feel a great responsibility. 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 actively promoting the construction of the Qingtang Archaeological Site Park. It is reported that the standard scope of Qingtang archaeological relics Babaylan 1990 cloth draw site park is based on Qingtang ruins and rocks.The distribution of remains of the clover ruins is the core and was approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in 2022 to be included in the list of the four batches of National Examinations of the Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw.
“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’s high attention to the Yanshanzhai site and the “Early Lingnan Source Exploration Project” will create a better research and construction atmosphere.” Liu Jianwen said.