Wangbójǐ Mountain Site Cluster

Wangbójǐ Mountain Site Cluster

The Wangbójǐ Mountain Site Cluster is a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Era: Neolithic Age to Han Dynasty

The Wangbójǐ Mountain Site Cluster is a cultural heritage site protected at the provincial level in Heilongjiang Province. It is located in the southwestern part of Bayan County, 1.5 kilometers south of the Songhua River and 0.5 kilometers west of the Shaoling River.

The total area of the site cluster is approximately 300,000 square meters, including the Wangbójǐ Site, Fujiang Village Site, and Shachang Site. Major artifacts include stone tools, bone tools, pottery, bronze ware, and ironware. Stone tools consist of chipped stone tools, pressure-flaked stone tools, ground stone tools, and jade ornaments; bone tools include bone awls, bone armor fragments, and bone or horn implements; pottery is all sand-tempered, including gray pottery, black pottery, brown pottery, red-slipped pottery, and painted pottery, with identifiable forms such as pottery pedestals, dou (bean-shaped vessels), li (tripod cauldrons), basins, bowls, cups, jars, clay net sinkers, and spinning wheel molds; bronze items mainly include buttons, bells, arrowheads, earrings, and tube ornaments; iron items include knives, spades, axes, and scrapers. It is a site that extends from the Neolithic Age through the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. In May 2013, it was designated and announced as part of the seventh batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units by the State Council.

Further Reading:

· Seventh Batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units