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.
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This undated aerial file photo shows the Suyang relics site in the city of Luoyang, central China's Henan Province.Xinhua
Just think in 4500 years people will be digging us up and calling it archeology
And studying what happened to our civilization. They they would finally decode ancient computers and learn about some bizarre thing called “wokeness”...
Which is why I am being cremated.
They should have kept the photo albums.
Another mummy movie!!!
They'll figure out that the couple of billion AOL CDs had some kind of ceremonial purpose.
Attack of the Mushroom People.
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.
Wonder if any skulls had bullet holes in the back of them
He found the bathroom
“They’ll dig up our graves and make flutes of our bones. They’ll blow a hymn to the orphans of God”
~Mark Heard
Burrethores?
I wonder what the secret was for those 4,500-year-olds that got them to live so long.
I am where former Congressman were buried.
I have that picture book, and it’s great.
Danged calorie counters.
2500 BC? Wow, that’s even before the Xia and Shang dynasty
Oh, wow, I just got your nick. [blush]
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
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