Pry into the prehistoric cultural treasure house

Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Zhaluteqi territory for the first time found that the large-scale ancient tombs, dating back four thousand years, located in the steppe hinterland.

The late nineties of the last century, human factors affect individual tombs devastated, even in the face of the situation disappeared. ○ Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Inner Mongolia in 1996 began to rescue cleanup excavations. The excavation area has reached 10,000 square meters, total clean the tombs of nearly four hundred kinds of cultural relics unearthed pottery, stoneware, jade, bone mussels over thirteen hundred.

"Zhaluteqi South Bao Li Gao spit Neolithic cemetery in the last year was named one of the six important archaeological discoveries in 2007" at the Chinese Academy of Social Archaeology Forum.

Ji Ping, an associate researcher at the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Inner Mongolia, said in an interview with reporters, The south Bao Li Gao spit the cemetery is a treasure trove of the study of prehistoric culture, its many important discoveries to fill the blank of a number of prehistoric archaeological culture.

Was named the important archaeological discoveries

From the 1990s onwards, the Tomb rampant, hundreds of tombs have been excavating a rough statistics. Ji Ping recalled ○ tombs scene six years for the first time to explore the situation, said: "preliminary investigation confirmed, then known cemetery area of ​​10,000 square meters, is divided into northern and southern areas. Unearth ancient tombs of the last sixty days to clean up $ 1 forty-two, which forty-five stolen. staff were found in the excavations by the cemetery to break the trenches. presumed trenches is likely earlier than the ruins of the cemetery district. Ji Ping said, first excavated archaeological finds nearly three hundred, of which nearly one hundred and fifty pottery, stone tools, bone mussels of about 150 pieces.

More frequent conflict between the clans

Reporters on the scene saw dozens of people being ordered excavation of ancient tombs topsoil greeted by dozens lined up in the square trenches, several staff members happen to squatting on the exploration side carefully with the hands of the brush to clean the the soil excavated pottery surface coverage, while cylindrical pots just unearthed an archaeological expert on-site repair. Jiping about the large number of tombs and intensive distribution consistent style characteristics of the funerary objects, belonging to the same period, culture remains.

Tombs are the rectangular pit earthen tomb, funerary objects multi-to Tao cylindrical cans, clay pots, stone axes, stone trim and stem stone blade knife, the individual tombs someone head funerary phenomenon. Ji Ping, explained that the tombs of many of the bones showed signs of dismembered record residues that reflected more frequent friction and conflict between tribes, tribal. South Bao Li Gao spit three graves have been found, and a resident address, unearthed items include some weapons, such as bone Terrier stone blade knife, sword, stone axes, stone ax and stone arrowhead "stone arrow" to stone arrowhead quantity up.

The humanoid animals pottery is rare

South Bao Li Gao spit unearthed humanoid clay pots and animal shaped pottery found in the Northeast Department of the Stone Age archaeological rare artifacts. Humanoid clay pots as a whole was the image of women, the face of the collar in Hukou, facial features clearly visible, with his hands holding his stomach, vivid and lifelike. Ji Ping, and other cultural sites in the Northeast during the same period, the humanoid earthenware pot in a rare discovery. In addition, in many funerary objects the Moyu Guduo, bone Terrier double stone Kris Guixing painted pottery pot, terracotta animal modeling utensils, etc. other cultural sites in the same period rarely discovered. Especially the Moyu made Guduo, head for the Pentagon thistles shape, it unearthed the emergence of such weapons era forward at least a thousand years; blade of bone, jade-edge weapons "bone Terrier double jade blade dagger ", the experts believe that the most likely a bronze dagger predecessor, now Inner Mongolia Museum collection.