Researcher Bao Qingchuan, an Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, revealed in an exclusive interview with China News Service reporter on the 11th that after radiocarbon 14 measurement in the US BETA laboratory, the three samples in the location III of the Simagou site in Huade County are: 9,000, 7,500, and 7,000 years ago.
Aerial photo of the Simagou site, location III, Bao Qingchuan told reporters that this discovery is of great significance to Chinese archaeology, which means that the discovery of Neolithic culture in the northern grassland area was 9,000 years ago, providing clues for studying the origin of Neolithic culture in the region, the early cultural exchanges in Northeast Asia, and the emergence of primitive agriculture and primitive animal husbandry in the northern ecological interlaced area.
From 2017 to 2019, under the leadership of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute, archaeological excavations were carried out at the Simagou site in Huade County. The site III of the site was mainly excavated, with a total of 2,200 square meters being excavated in three years. There are 19 excavated buildings and 19 outdoor stoves.
The Simagou site is located
In Bao Qingchuan's view, the Simagou site in Huade County continues the archaeological cultural connotation of the Yumin site, and this culture reveals the connotation of the early Neolithic cultural development in the eastern section of the northern foothills of Yinshan .
According to reports, the Yumin Cultural Site was measured by the Science and Technology Archaeology Laboratory of Peking University and the BETA Laboratory of the United States. The age range of the site is about 8400 to 7600 years ago.
