The Zhaojiatai Site belongs to the Yangshao Culture. Zhaojiatai is situated on the eastern bank of Kongtougou (River), 9 kilometers northeast of Qishan County in Shaanxi Province, on a tableland. The site is located east of the village, with the Qipu Highway passing north of it. Currently, it is an open earthwork site where years of soil extraction have left behind a large number of pottery shards and bricks. Terraces reveal evidence of pottery kilns and ash pits. Covering an area of 20,000 square meters, it was discovered during the 1987 cultural relics survey.
The cultural layer is 0.5–1 meter thick, located 1–1.5 meters below the surface. To date, over 3,000 square meters have been excavated, uncovering two large Western Zhou Dynasty pottery kilns — one of which covers an area of more than 60 square meters — as well as six ash pits. A number of pottery jars and a large quantity of pottery fragments were unearthed.
In May 2013, it was included in the seventh batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level.
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