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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Yunnan Neolithic age site
Country: China
NOTE: This site is 57.395 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Shaoxing City  Nearest Village: Yunnan
Latitude: 29.878020N  Longitude: 120.353270E
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Ancient Settlement in China. Poles point to Yunnan Neolithic age site. More than 2,000 wooden poles recently unearthed at a site in Jianchuan county, have been found to be more than 3,000 years old. The poles, still standing, were dug 4.5 m into the ground.

Archaeologists said carbon tests showed the poles were from the Neolithic age, and were probably the foundations for a structure built by a community that existed at the time in southwest China.

They said this community may turn out to be the largest Neolithic one of its kind that has ever been discovered in China, or even in the world. It could be older than the Hemudu community in Yuyao, Zhejiang province, birthplace of the Yangtze River civilization.

"I was shocked when I first saw the site. I have never seen such a big and orderly one. This could be only a small fraction of the actual community that existed at the time," Yan Wenming, history professor at Peking University, said.

Excavation of the site is still going on. A total of 28 excavations have been made so far of an area that covers 1,350 sq m. Min Rui, a researcher at the Yunnan Archaeological Institute who leads the excavation, said the area could eventually cover 4 sq km

Yan said the poles could have been the foundations for a house as these types of structures have been found in Hubei, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other provinces, the most famous being the Hemudu site.

"Right now there is also such a site being excavated in Switzerland. But that site is smaller than the one in Yunnan. The Yunnan one could be the largest in the world," Yan said.

Archaeologists have also found more than 3,000 artifacts made of stone, as well as pottery, wood, iron and bones. The most eye-catching piece is a red jar, Min said.

The site, which lies on the banks of the Jianhu Lake, was discovered in 1957 during the construction of a canal. Broken pieces of pottery were found nearby. Excavation started in January this year - five decades after the discovery.

Source: China Daily

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Re: Yunnan Neolithic age site by Anonymous on Monday, 08 November 2010
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also, the jianhu lake you link to is incorrect - and on the other side of china completely.

the significance of the site in terms of prehistoric migrations is that it is directly south, and only sightly so, from a very significant and sudden bend in the upper yangtse (or jinshajiang) river.

the jianhu lake is named after jianchuan, which is located on the old road between dali and lijiang, at the turnoff to the famous shibaoshan buddhist grottoes which date from much later. (the new road passes further to the east, bypassing jianchuan.)
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