Feihu Mountain Site in Pingba

Pingba Feihu Mountain Site

The Pingba Feihu Mountain Site is a cultural relics protection unit of Guizhou Province.

The Feihu Mountain Site in Pingba is a key provincial cultural relics protection unit. Feihu Mountain is located in Baiyun Township, Pingba County. Discovered in 1978, trial excavations were conducted in Cave No. 2 in 1982, yielding over 500 stone artifacts, more than 70 bone and horn implements, over 1,000 pottery fragments, and fossils of more than 10 animal species. The eastern entrance of Cave No. 2 at Feihu Mountain is 3.8 meters high and 6 meters wide, while the western entrance is 2.1 meters high and 6 meters wide. The cultural period spans from the Paleolithic Age to the late Neolithic Age. According to carbon-14 dating, it dates back approximately 12,000 to 4,000 years ago. The geological age is the Late Pleistocene. The raw materials for the stone artifacts from the late Paleolithic period at Feihu Mountain were mainly flint. The primary technique used for flaking stone flakes was the hammer percussion method, followed by the hard hammer technique. The types of stone tools were predominantly scrapers, followed by points. Bone tools included awls and spades. Twenty-seven ground stone tools from the Neolithic period were discovered at Feihu Mountain, including axes, arrowheads, and spinning whorls. Bone tools consisted of spades and scrapers. Except for spinning whorls, the shapes of other pottery items could not be determined. The pottery was mostly sandy clay with relatively high firing temperatures, predominantly gray pottery with less black pottery. Most were hand-made and modified with a slow wheel, with both inner and outer surfaces smoothed. The decorative patterns were mostly coarse cord marks, followed by fine cord marks, then comb impressions, incised lines, grid patterns, and appliqué patterns, along with three pieces of painted pottery.

Further Reading:

· First Batch of Cultural Relics Protection Units in Guizhou Province