Huangnishan Site

Huangnishan Site

The Huangnishan Site is a cultural heritage protection unit of Suzhou City.

The Huangnishan Site, originally known as "Gaoru" or "Taiping Mountain," is located in the northeastern part of Zhengyi Town, Kunshan City, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. It features cultural deposits from various periods including the Neolithic Liangzhu Culture, the Maqiao Culture, the Spring and Autumn period, the Song Dynasty, and subsequent eras, covering an area of approximately 4,000 square meters. It was designated as part of the second batch of cultural heritage protection units in Kunshan City in 1997, and salvage excavations were carried out in 1998.

Previously, after years of investigation and research by archaeological experts, it was discovered that stone artifacts collected from the Huangnishan Site in Wuyishan belong to the pebble tool tradition, dating back approximately 30,000 to 50,000 years. This marks the first discovery of Paleolithic remains in Wuyishan City, pushing its history back from the original estimate of three to four thousand years to 30,000–50,000 years, and greatly enriching the cultural significance of Wuyishan as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Since the citywide cultural relic surveys conducted in 1984 and 1987, numerous artifacts have been found in the area near Hushan Temple, a provincial-level cultural heritage protection site in Jiaoting Village, Wuyi Town, Nanjian District. In 1994, during an archaeological excavation at the Meixigang Site in Jiaoting, the Fujian Provincial Archaeological Team conducted further surveys in this region and collected a small number of stone flakes, tools, and stone balls processed by ancient humans from the Huangnishan area.