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Relics of Chinese civilization found along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway
www.chinanews.cn 2006-06-29 15:55:43
Chinanews, Xining, June 29 - Archaeologists discovered that early in the
later period of the Paleolithic Age, there were ancient human activities
along the Qinghai-Tibet railway line. They found relics of human
activities during this period in the Tuotuo River at the Thanglha
mountain district, Hol Xil and the Small Tsaidam Lake at Tsaidam Basin
and gathered large quantities of manually forged stone products,
including stone kernels, stone knives, choppers, scrapers and spikes.
They estimated that human beings had been living here no later than
30,000 years ago.
Xu Xinguo, director of the Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural
Relics and Archaeology, stated that during the preliminary phase of the
construction of the Qinghai-Tibet railway, he had been responsible for
the investigation group of cultural relics along the Qinghai-Tibet
railway line and had led a team to carry out general survey on cultural
relics at the building site of the Shanchahe-bridge section of the
Qinghai-Tibet railroad in Golmud city, Qinghai province, which is located
at the north side of the Kunlun Mountains, over 70 kilometers away. They
excavated more than 30 cultural relics from the Neolithic Age, such as
gallets, stone knives and stone kernels.
He believed that "if similar cultural relics can be found in the
substrata layer, they can be used to explain the assumption that Chinese
ancestors had lived on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau 10,000 to 30,000 years
ago and further attest that the Kunlun Mountain is also an important
cradleland of Chinese civilization."
In Xining city, which is located at the eastern part of Qinghai province
and is the starting point of the Qinghai-Tibet railroad, a series of
archeological discoveries has caused archeologists to be increasingly
amazed at its richness in prehistoric cultural relics and its advanced
prehistoric culture. From the Xiaochaida site and Layihai site of the
Paleolithic Age to the Hulijia, Zongri, and Lajia sites of the Neolithic
Age, and the Nuomuhong cultural heritage of the Bronze Age, these
prehistoric relics are not only spread over large areas of the eastern
Qinghai province, but are also large in quantity and represent different
types of culture.
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