Ruins of 4,300-year-old prehistoric city found in China

ABC ^ | Thursday, January 23, 2003. Posted: 21:01:28 (AEDT) | Editorial Staff

[vannrox]

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Thursday, January  23, 2003. Posted: 21:01:28 (AEDT)

Ruins of 4,300-year-old prehistoric city found in China

Chinese archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a prehistoric city dating back an estimated 4,300 years in southwest Sichuan province, state press said.

The find provided evidence that the region along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with the Chengdu Plain at the core, played an important role in the origin and development of Chinese civilization, experts said.

The ancient city of Yandian measures 700 metres from north to south and 500 metres from east to west, the Xinhua news agency reported.

It covers an area of more than 300,000 square metres.

Chen Jian, an official with the relics and archaeological team in the Sichuan capital Chengdu City, said the site is next to a river at an elevation of three metres above the river bank.

This indicated that ancient people considered the availability of water and flood prevention when deciding where to build cities, he said.

Archaeologists unearthed a number of pieces of inscribed pottery, polished stone axes, chisels and spears at the site.

They also found chips of human skulls on the city wall but were unable to explain how they got there.

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[Centurion2000]

Some have said that the practice of 'white-face' among the Japanese is to emulate their ancient rulers. There are ancient paintings of the samurai that the Japanese keep hidden...they're caucasian.

It would be interesting to see those.

[curmudgeonII]

The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royalty and nobility...

I was under the impressionn that the "pure" Japanese considered the [hairy] Ainu to be considerably inferior to other Japanese.

[blam]

"I was under the impressionn that the "pure" Japanese considered the [hairy] Ainu to be considerably inferior to other Japanese."

That came later. Today, the Japanese call the Ainu, 'The Hairy Ainu' with distaste. (There are about 10,000 Ainu left in Japan)

[weikel]

So Hitler was inadvertently right when he declared the Japanese "Honorary Aryans" interesting...

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: >>It covers an area of more than 300,000 square metres

>That's not a city ... that's a large Sam's Club

My Blonde Throphy Wife: "Gad, they had Sam's Clubs in ancient China!"

Me: Not a chinaman's chance.

[blam]

Yup. They all scattered during the Black Sea flood (Noah's Flood?) in 5,600BC. These folks were the ancestors of the mummies found in the Chinese desert. (Tocharians)

[Centurion2000]

Interesting map ... kinda makes one extremely curious to see what ruins might lie under the Black Sea.

[BenLurkin]

What about the "GO BROWNS!" sign they found?

[BenLurkin]

Don't let Slick Willie see that photo. We wouldn't want him to get excited.

[SunkenCiv]

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