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5,000-year-old skeleton unearthed in south China
Beijing, July 12: Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a 5,000-year-old skeleton at a Neolithic site in Dongguan city of south China`s Guangdong province.
Beijing, July 12: Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a 5,000-year-old skeleton at a Neolithic site in Dongguan city of south China's Guangdong province.
Experts say the intact skeleton, positioned face-up with limbs extended, was a male inhabitant of the Pearl River delta in the central-south part of Guangdong.
Archaeologists with the Guangdong provincial cultural heritage, the Archaeological Research Institute and the Dongguan City Museum have excavated large quantities of pottery and stone, bone and mussel tools at the Haogang Neolithic site since excavations began on April 15. The Haogang site was discovered by archaeologists in the 1980s.
The Haogang new Stone Age site has residential housing, designated sites for public activities, areas for garbage disposal and a designated burial area, indicating that human beings lived in the pearl river delta more than 5,000 years ago, the head of the excavation team, Feng Mengqin said. Judging from the materials unearthed thus far, the Haogang site was the earliest site on the Pearl River delta inhabited by human beings, Feng said.
Numerous oyster shells, fish bones and fishing tools were also excavated from the site, which indicate that the ancient inhabitants lived on fishing instead of farming, according to experts. Bureau Report
Archaeologists with the Guangdong provincial cultural heritage, the Archaeological Research Institute and the Dongguan City Museum have excavated large quantities of pottery and stone, bone and mussel tools at the Haogang Neolithic site since excavations began on April 15. The Haogang site was discovered by archaeologists in the 1980s.
The Haogang new Stone Age site has residential housing, designated sites for public activities, areas for garbage disposal and a designated burial area, indicating that human beings lived in the pearl river delta more than 5,000 years ago, the head of the excavation team, Feng Mengqin said. Judging from the materials unearthed thus far, the Haogang site was the earliest site on the Pearl River delta inhabited by human beings, Feng said.
Numerous oyster shells, fish bones and fishing tools were also excavated from the site, which indicate that the ancient inhabitants lived on fishing instead of farming, according to experts. Bureau Report