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Site of ancient culture remains of round mountain Taiwan Taibei of China

Site of ancient culture remains of round mountain Taiwan Taibei of China

Write: Camille [2011-05-23]

Round the intersection of mountain and site of ancient culture remains lie Taibei in the the intersection of city and zoo, site to face the intersection of base and Rhone in nature high originally, in 1897 The 23rd year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty) Discovery. The site includes upper and lower two cultural floors.

Upper strata subject is last shellfish tomb layer of 2 meters thick,last a large amount of mankind shell, beast bone abandoned after not eating and with behind abandon utensil, in addition there is brown sand pottery, the surface has red pigment to scribble or has a string, it mostly have one pair to get up by the lip and enclose vertical one on the shoulder.

This layer still excavates the small quantity device type uniquly, pairs of pots and rubing stone axe, stone hoeing, stone adze, celt, stone rifle very beginning, bone fish spear, bone arrowhead,etc. made to produce and hunt tools with beautiful shaping. The most characteristic among them there are shoulder stone axes and have Duan ShiBen, it is the important characteristic of the late culture of new stone implement of southeast region following the line of the sea of China.

Find, have ornamental to spend the device too in addition. There is no shellfish s tomb in the lower floor, the main unearthed pottery with line of tallying of rope, it is one of the oldest prehistoric culture Taibei basin, according to examining for about 4500 years ago, and lasted 2000 in this area at least.

Relatively inferred by the archaeology, the host on round mountain culture may move and call from the abundant coastal area between Guangzhou of sea of Guangdong Province of today.