Site of the primitive town of the Neolithic

Location: Lixian County, Changde City, Hunan Province

Period: 4000-2800 BC

Excavated in 1991

Significance: It is by far the oldest and best-preserved ancient city ruins with richest cultural content and has supplied abundant materials to the study of the settlement patterns of the Neolithic Age in the Yangtze River valley. 

Black pottery pot: wine vessel or water vessel (up, height 15.5 cm); Painted pottery cup: wine vessel or water vessel (bottom, mouth diameter 10 cm)

 Introduction

Changde of Hunan Province is historically called the country of scenery and cultural relics. Chengtoushan Site in Lixian county of Changde is the life miniature of ancient people 7,000 years ago.

Chengtoushan Site covers an area of about 152,000 square meters, with an unearthed area of 4,000 square meters. The site abounds in cultural relics of ancient city walls, moats, foundations of houses, kilns, altars and graveyards, etc. Underneath the city walls, traces of ancient paddy fields were discovered. Large quantities of stone articles, pottery, jade and carbonized rice were unearthed.

Chengtoushan Site is by far the earliest, best-preserved and relic-abundant ancient site.