Shande Nangang Ruins

Shande Nangang Ruins

The Shande Nangang Ruins are a cultural tourism attraction.

Shande Nangang Ruins

The ruins are situated on the southern plateau of Shande King Village in Taiwei Township, with a total area of about 35,000 square meters. Investigations reveal that before the liberation, locals unearthed many cultural relics such as pottery shards, clam shells, deer antlers, and tripod cauldrons while excavating soil on the mound. In 1956, a major trench was dug to build an irrigation canal on the mound, resulting in the discovery of numerous artifacts. The wall of one pit (a square well dug during water conservancy projects) exposes a cultural layer about two meters thick. The eastern wall features a pile of clam shells, the southern wall contains a human skeleton, and the western wall has a circular ash pit filled with basket-patterned pottery shards. Artifacts unearthed from the well include stone knives, stone hoes, stone arrowheads, perforated crescent-shaped stone knives, bone arrowheads, and pottery such as polished black pottery, gravel-tempered red pottery, clamshell-tempered red pottery, and gravel-tempered gray pottery. Pottery forms include perforated-lattice bean pots and basket-patterned flat-bottom jars. Tripod leg styles include flat and nipple-shaped varieties. Other finds include deer antlers, tortoise shells, and burnt bones.

Although the site is only two kilometers west of Guozhuang Dagang Ruins, it is primarily a cultural site of the Longshan Culture, where humans lived continuously until after the Shang and Zhou dynasties.