An area of 2760000 square meters, second in size only Liangzhu ancient city and Taosi
● from the outside walls and trenches inferred Plain ago 4500 years ago in a highly centralized political and power centers
● Chengdu Plain once again proved that the origin of the Yangtze River civilization, one of the centers, centers of origin of Chinese civilization
May 6, Chengdu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology announced, after a year investigation to explore, in Xinjin Baodun ancient city ruins found outside the city walls, the city has identified this area of the Neolithic is 276 million square meters, is the China's third largest found in the ancient city of the Longshan period, to explore the origins of Chinese civilization provides new information.
Xinjin Baodun site found in 1995, is the national cultural heritage. How big is this city? Shu ancestors live here any communication with the outside world? What is the disappearance of the ancient city? The eternal mystery has been plagued by archaeological experts. From November 2009, the Chengdu Institute of Archaeology Archaeological Survey of Team Organization on the site of the Archaeological Survey of Po pier and also works for the Origins of Chinese civilization for the third stage of preliminary investigation.
Yu-Kun Ho excavation team leader told reporters that the investigation found outside the ancient city walls, The Northeast side of the inner city and outer city walls overlap. Remnants of the outer city wall width 15-25 meters, the remnants of height from 1.5-4 m, the outer wall there are 10-15 meters wide trench, the city was roughly rectangular with rounded corners and irregular. Archaeological team of external walls and trenches using total station the distribution and movements were measured to confirm the ancient city area of 276 square meters, second in size only and Taosi Liangzhu ancient city.
At the same time, the archaeological team at the center of the city Baodun northerly position of the ancient city uncovered a large building base, while retaining only a column of soil pits and local pad, but it can determine the rectangular building, sitting east of the West, an area of about 300 square meters, and there are rooms on both sides, is found in the earliest large buildings in Chengdu Plain.
Archaeologists said the discovery of external walls and trenches proved Baodun ancient city from the inside and outside the two-tier structure, and magnitude, can be inferred Plain dated to 4500 years ago, a highly centralized political and power centers, proving once again that Chengdu Plain is the center of origin of the Yangtze River civilization, the origin of Chinese civilization, one of the centers to explore the origins of Chinese civilization and multiple integration model theory provides the key evidence. Source: Sichuan Daily
