Liujiuhe Site

　　The site is situated in Minzhu Village, Wuli Town of this county and was discovered during the 1981 cultural relics survey. It lies 100 meters south of the Yue River and 200 meters north of Shenxian Street. The surrounding terrain is flat, with a slight central elevation forming an indistinct earthen mound. The eastern part is overlaid by Liujiuhe Village, while the western part is an agricultural area. The surface of the site contains stone tools, pottery fragments, and red fired earth. In the west, there is a fault about 1.5 meters high composed of brown loam containing pottery fragments and red fired earth. Below the fault, toward the west in the rice fields, the cultural layer is exposed, where pottery fragments and stone tools can be collected.

　　The pottery mainly consists of clay red pottery and sand-tempered red pottery, with a small amount of sand-tempered gray pottery. Artifacts include pointed-bottom bottles, pointed-bottom vessels, jars, urns, bowls, and scrapers. The common decorative pattern is rope impression, often accompanied by seven to eleven string patterns above the shoulder or collar rope impressions. Among them, a high-necked jar features thin outward-flaring walls and a neck decorated with fingertip-indentation patterns and bosses—very distinctive. There are also small amounts of painted pottery and plain polished pottery.

　　The stone tools are mostly polished, some are both ground and polished, and most are made from pebbles. Tools include axes, spades, knives, and arrowheads, with a few knives and arrowheads finely polished and double-edged. This site belongs to the Banpo type of Yangshao Culture.