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China discovers earliest cave dwelling complex

Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 10 February 2009  Page Views: 2101

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Chinese archeologists discovered in Shaanxi Province the earliest known cave dwelling residence complex to date. This large scale ancient complex shows that the history of ancient people living in cave dwellings can be traced as far as 5,500 years ago. The private pottery kilns found at the complex indicate that the concept of private property had already developed by that time.

The Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology recently organized a large scale excavation. During excavation, archeologists discovered that there are 17 relic cave dwellings in total, spread out in rows out to the edge of a cliff near the bank of the Jing River, close to Yangguanzhai Village in Gaoling County of Shaanxi Province in northwestern China. The cave dwellings are part of the cultural heritage from the Banpo phase IV of the Neolithic Age, roughly 5,500 years ago.

A single dwelling covered an area of over 10 square meters, with a simple layout similar to the shape of the Chinese character "吕" (lu). It consisted of a front room and a backroom connected to one another. The front room was an ordinary room, while the backroom was a cave dwelling. Beside the dwellings, archeologists also found pottery kilns and caves used to store potteries where a great number of potteries, greenware sherds and some pottery-making tools were also unearthed.

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5000 stone statues older than Terracotta warriors discovered in Hunan by coldrum on Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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5000 stone statues older than Terracotta warriors discovered in Hunan

Archaeologists have discovered a large group of ancient stone statues at the worship site of Guizai Mountain near Hunan province.

According to People's Daily Online, these statues are a lot more in number and a lot older than the Qin Terracotta Warriors found in the depths of the Nanling Mountains located in Dao County of Yongzhou City.

Tang Zhongyong, director of the Dao County Administrative Office, said that the Guizai Mountain site is a large ancient worship site. There are over 5,000 vivid stone statues at the site, covering an area of 15,000 square metres.

They are statues of civil officials, military officers, pregnant women and all kinds of common soldiers and their height varies from 30 to 100 centimetres.

Archaeology experts in Hunan said that there are over 5,000 stone statues on the ground and a large number of stone statues buried about two meters below the ground.

The Hunan Cultural Relics department also found that the statues are the group of stone portraits with the longest history found in China by far.

Some were carved in prehistoric times about 5,000 years ago, and some were carved during the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin dynasties about 2,000 to 5,000 years ago.

Based on the existing information and field investigations, archaeologists deduced that Guizai Mountain was simply a large altar and that prehistoric people placed stone statues on it.

http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_5000-stone-statues-older-than-terracotta-warriors-discovered-in-hunan_1425748
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Prehistoric man's cave found in southwest China by coldrum on Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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Prehistoric man's cave found in southwest China

A group of construction workers have accidentally stumbled upon a prehistoric man's cave underneath a Buddhist temple in southwest China's Guizhou Province, archaeologists said here Friday.

The stone structure, containing hundreds of mammal fossils and stone implements, was between 10,000 and 40,000 years old and presumably dated back either to the end of the Old Stone Age or the start of New Stone Age, said Cai Huiyang, a top archaeologist with the Guizhou Provincial Museum.

"We hired the workers to relocate one of the Buddha statues at an donors's suggestion last month," said Sheng Guo, abbot of Simingdong Temple in Xiuwen County, in the northern suburbs of the provincial capital Guiyang.

After they removed the statue, the workers found a hole about the size of a rice bowl, and caught a snake about 6 cm thick, he said. "When they dug deeper, they found the stone cave and the fossils."

After two weeks of research at the site, Cai and his colleagues concluded it was a prehistoric residence of human beings, similar to that of the Peking Man found in Beijing early last century.

Before this major discovery, Cai said archaeologists had found pieces of similar animal fossils and stone implements near the temple.

"We're conducting research to see whether the cave should be excavated further in search of human skeletons and other relics."

Guizhou is home to a number of heritage sites, including a prehistoric man's cave in Panxian County that contains fossils of mammals, birds, fishes and a human tooth.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/08/content_11335403.htm
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