Dahuangsha Site

Dahuangsha Site

The Dahuangsha Site is a cultural tourism attraction.

The Dahuangsha Site is located on the coastal sand ridge in Kuichong Town, Longgang District, Shenzhen. It dates back to the middle Neolithic Age. The site covers an area of about 10,000 square meters. Discovered in 1981, it was excavated twice by the Shenzhen Museum — from May to June 1988 and from June to July 1989 — with a total excavation area of 182 square meters. The cultural deposits reach a thickness of 2.8 meters. Cultural layers 3, 4, and 5 have yielded pottery and stone tools. The pottery includes both sandy-clay and fine-clay types, fired at relatively low temperatures. The types of vessels include cauldrons, jars, basins, plates, bowls, cups, pedestals, and supports, among which painted pottery plates and bowls are distinctive. The vessel surfaces feature patterns made of bands, straight lines, waves, dots, curves, arcs, and triangles. Other decorative motifs on the pottery include cord marks, incised lines, shell-incised patterns, string patterns, and comb-like impressions. Among the stone tools are axes, adzes, beaters, disc-shaped objects, grinding stones, anvils, and pounders, with polished stone tools being more common than chipped ones. Carbon-14 dating of carbonized plant samples from T101 indicates an age of 5,600 years ago (tree-ring calibrated to 6,255 years ago).