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Hundreds of 4,500-yr-old tombs found in central China
Source: Xinhua ^ | December 29, 2022 | Editor: huaxia

Posted on 01/04/2023 7:29:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Archaeologists have found more than 300 tombs dating back around 4,500 years in central China's Henan Province, which are of great significance to studying the burial system and social structure of prehistoric China.

Located in the Suyang relics site in the city of Luoyang, the tomb complex covers an area of about 15,000 square meters, and all of the tombs are earth pits in a rectangular shape, according to the Luoyang Municipal Institute of Archaeology.

"The tomb cluster is large in size and can be traced back to the transition period from Yangshao Culture to Longshan Culture. It is extremely rare to see this in Zhongyuan, a region known as the central plain area," said Ren Guang, head of the excavation project on the Suyang site.

Archaeologists have unearthed nine tombs so far, and the skeletons of 10 people have been found in the tombs. Some of the tombs show evidence of having been seriously damaged by tomb raiders.

Preliminary excavation showed that the tomb complex can be traced back to the early stage of the Longshan Culture, Ren said.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.news.cn ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: bronzeage; china; godsgravesglyphs; neolithic
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This undated aerial file photo shows the Suyang relics site in the city of Luoyang, central China's Henan Province.
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1 posted on 01/04/2023 7:29:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 01/04/2023 7:32:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Just think in 4500 years people will be digging us up and calling it archeology


3 posted on 01/04/2023 7:36:54 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: NWFree

And studying what happened to our civilization. They they would finally decode ancient computers and learn about some bizarre thing called “wokeness”...


4 posted on 01/04/2023 7:39:33 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: NWFree
Yep.

Which is why I am being cremated.

They should have kept the photo albums.

5 posted on 01/04/2023 7:41:08 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: SunkenCiv

Another mummy movie!!!


6 posted on 01/04/2023 7:43:51 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: NWFree
They'll figure out that the couple of billion AOL CDs had some kind of ceremonial purpose.

7 posted on 01/04/2023 7:44:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: DannyTN

Attack of the Mushroom People.


8 posted on 01/04/2023 7:45:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: NWFree

Motel of the Mysteries

https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/0395284252

It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson’s incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.


9 posted on 01/04/2023 7:47:31 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: SunkenCiv

Wonder if any skulls had bullet holes in the back of them


10 posted on 01/04/2023 7:51:36 PM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: FarCenter

He found the bathroom


11 posted on 01/04/2023 7:54:04 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: packagingguy

“They’ll dig up our graves and make flutes of our bones. They’ll blow a hymn to the orphans of God”

~Mark Heard


12 posted on 01/04/2023 7:54:36 PM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: nevadapatriot

Burrethores?


13 posted on 01/04/2023 8:00:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I wonder what the secret was for those 4,500-year-olds that got them to live so long.


14 posted on 01/04/2023 8:13:02 PM PST by adorno
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To: SunkenCiv

I am where former Congressman were buried.


15 posted on 01/04/2023 8:16:57 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: FarCenter

I have that picture book, and it’s great.


16 posted on 01/04/2023 8:18:02 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: adorno

Danged calorie counters.


17 posted on 01/04/2023 9:37:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

2500 BC? Wow, that’s even before the Xia and Shang dynasty


18 posted on 01/05/2023 12:16:49 AM PST by Cronos (.)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
Oh, wow, I just got your nick. [blush]

19 posted on 01/05/2023 7:46:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Cronos

I was a little put off by their calling these Neolithic, but as happened everywhere, the Stone ages ended at various different times. Having organized, dedicated burial sites is a sure sign that a culture is (literally) dug in, and not nomadic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Neolithic_cultures_of_China


20 posted on 01/05/2023 7:49:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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