Shijiahe Ruins
It is the largest known distribution area in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River
The longest-preserved prehistoric settlement group with the longest preservation
recently
Hubei archaeologists began to work on the Shijiahe site again
Conduct a new round of archaeological excavations
A deeper revelation of the agrarian civilization of the region
In a farmland in Shijiahe Town, the staff of the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology is conducting archaeological excavations at a site in Tanjialing in a newly built cultural relics protection shed. Li Xiaoyang is a leader of this archaeological work, and whenever there is a new progress, he will seriously take pictures and records.
Li Xiaoyang, librarian of the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology: The base trough of this base site is about one meter wide, and now it is the widest foundation we know in the Shijiahe settlement, and what we are doing now is the work of removing the topsoil.
In 2022, with the support of the Chinese Civilization Exploration Project and the "Archaeological China" Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Civilization Process Project, Hubei restarted the field archaeological excavation of the Shijiahe City Site Group. The projects currently under way are mainly to find the foundation site and excavation of large high-grade buildings at the Shijiahe site.
Li Xiaoyang, librarian of the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology: The so-called high-grade buildings are some places where some civilized societies have carried out social complexity and special activities, and this year our focus is to explore its nature and grade, and extract more archaeological information from these high-grade buildings.
Located in the hinterland of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the Shijiahe site spans 5900 to 3800 years, which is the key period for the formation of Chinese civilization. Since the 1950s, archaeologists have carried out a lot of arduous and meticulous scientific archaeological work around the Shijiahe site, discovering and confirming the Tanjialing City Site, the Large Sacrifice Area of Yinxintai, the High-grade Jade Burial of Tanjialing, the Sanfangwan Professional Pottery Workshop and other important site areas, gradually deepening people's understanding of the prehistoric civilization in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.
FangQin Shijiahe Site, Director of the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, is the largest, longest-lasting and highest-specification prehistoric settlement site found in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, so its position in the process of exploring the source of our Chinese civilization is very important.
According to reports, the archaeological excavation of the Shijiahe site has a total of three major goals, and the search for high-grade buildings is one of them. Another goal is to study the living habits and funerary customs of the people at that time, using the exquisite jade excavated at the Shijiahe site as a clue.
Fang Qin, president of the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, director of the Provincial Museum: The jade artifacts that date back and forth around 4,000 years ago were found in the urn coffin, but there was no earthen pit tomb in that period, we have to find this target this time, if we find it, it proves that it is co-existent, both urn coffins and earthen pits.
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