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Archives of Peking University News - PKU English - 北京大学

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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

above ensures richer information selected from the archeological materials and<br />

scientific explanations for those materials.<br />

The excavation area this time is not very large but the gains are quite plentiful.<br />

Besides the digging out <strong>of</strong> a large amount <strong>of</strong> bird and aquatic animal fossils, six<br />

ancient rice seeds, one piece <strong>of</strong> original pottery remnant, gravel stoneware, kitchen<br />

range pit and fire mound remnant are also among the discoveries, among which the<br />

rice seeds and pottery remnant, about 14000 to 15000 years ago by absolute age<br />

are the earliest specimen known to be existed in the world so far. These discoveries<br />

are <strong>of</strong> great scientific research value to important international forward tasks such as<br />

the exploration <strong>of</strong> the origin <strong>of</strong> rice, the invention <strong>of</strong> pottery, the human living styles,<br />

livelihood pattern trait and environmental changes during the transition period from<br />

the Old Stone Age to the <strong>News</strong> Stone Age.<br />

Edited By : Wang Fanfan<br />

Translated By : Wang Yi<br />

Source : Beida <strong>News</strong> (in Chinese)<br />

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