Early Neolithic burial sites of ancient human. District-level cultural relics protection units. Dining hall in the town of Mentougou. Discovered in 1966. Lam Dong Hu was found in its name. About 1 million years ago. Site area of 28 square meters.
Deposite archaeological team in 2001 and 2003 a total of 5 × 5 平方米 mining exploration party 7 (T1 ~ T7), 5 × 8 平方米 exploration square one (T8), 2 × 5 平方米 trench 2 ( TG1 ~ TG2). The actual excavation area of 200 square meters. To T3, for example, by soil earth tones, from top to bottom can be divided into 7 layers. Level 1: light gray soil, loose soil, more roots, thickness of 5 to 20 cm soil layer for modern farming. Layer 2: pale yellow soil, loose soil, 15 to 35 cm thick, this layer is around 1960 when the pit dug sweet potatoes piled. Layer 3: gray-brown soil, loose soil, 0 to 35 cm thick, contains material with blue and white tablets, stone, carbon dust, Hong Shaotu particles, the age of about Ming and Qing Dynasties. Layer 4: light yellow sandy soil, located in the western half of exploration side, 0 to 75 cm thick, contains material of animal bones, shells, stone and so on. Level 5: yellow sand, soil quality, more compact, located in the western half of exploration side, 15 to 50 cm thick, contains material with stones, clam shells and animal bones. Tier 6: pale yellow sand quality soil, soil density than layer 5, mixed white spots, 10 to 30 cm thick, contains material with stone, stones, animal bones and so on. Level 7: gray-brown soil, the soil hard, Jude Biao 95 to 105 cm, contains material with stone, stones, animal bones, etc.; also found in the ashes of the remains of five layers. The first layer is alluvial 4,5,6.
There remains excavated remains of three pits, huidui 8, making games a stone. 8 remains accumulated ashes conditions were similar, in the northeast of T3, range is about 80 × 60 square centimeters. Central area of a large number of black ash that contains a large number of objects in the grill marks are pieces of gravel, with chipped stone scar nuclear and animal bones (mostly deer recognizable bone) and so on. The remains were found from top to bottom with stones, stones piled over the top of chaos, the bottom of the heap as the stones are roughly circular, arranged in more orderly.
Burial in water for the West Bank in 1966, the second-class human bones unearthed in the loess plateau three showed no Tomb. The middle of a 16-year-old girl, was a funeral, a skull, vertebrae, femur, patella, tibia and pubis, as well as a number of means (toe) bones. Each side of the bone an adult male, is the second funeral, only a few remnants of bone and skull fragments, which are relatively complete left femur and tibia bones. Girls around the neck bones found in more than 50 pieces by a necklace made of small shells, greatest length of 18 mm, width 16 mm, thickness 11 mm; smallest length of 11.5 mm, width 8 mm, 6 mm thick. In the girl's wrist bones found around the bones from the seven control into the bone bracelet, bone tubes are formed by the grinding beef rib cut. Shaopian tube shape bone, the longest about 39 mm, width 17 mm, thickness 9.5 mm; short length of 29 mm, width 22 mm, thickness 10 mm. In addition, the chest also found that mussel shell products 2, a flat, the other for the long flat bar, both the top perforation. In the human bones found near the gray quartzite stone eight, of which six have significant traces of human combat. The spring of 1995, human bones found at the site a section, and were collected shells and stone products such as necklaces, but found Tomb. T1 and east in 2001, found outside the concentrated beam pile of human bones, but obviously after a disturbance, found no Tomb. T8 in 2003 found under the 8th floor, Tower 1, well-preserved tombs, Tomb clear. Tomb of the north west 70 °, the tomb of mouth Jude Biao 150 cm, pit of 220 cm, width 42 ~ 48 cm, depth 52 to 76 cm. Yielded a preserved human bones 1, Yang Shen straight limbs, bones about 1.6 meters. From stick-shaped jade burial grinding products (identified as calcite) 1 pieces of human bones in the tomb is located between the nose and mouth. |