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Xinle Site Museum

Updated: 2008-01-18 18:00:39

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The Xinle Site Museum is a Chinese site museum of early period of New Stone Age more than 7,000 years ago. Located in Huanggu District of Shengyang City in Liaoning Province, the museum was built in July 1986.

The museum treasures up about 100,000 cultural relics left by the New Stone Age unearthed in the Xinle Site. And, the cultural relics include stoneware, crockery, bone objects, coal products, graphite, bloodstone, charring grain, charring shell, extremely rare woodcarvings and so on. The museum has two exhibition halls and the house ruins of the Xinle Lower Culture.

The No. 1 Exhibition Hall displays 167 cultural relics of the Xinle Lower Culture in 12 showcases. The No. 2 Exhibition Hall displays 55 cultural relics of the Xinle Upper Culture in 8 showcases.

In the site, the ruins of the houses, belonging to the Xinle Lower Culture period, was excavated in 1978. It is in the shape of a near-perfect rectangle, with 95.46 square meters in area, where large quantities of relics were discovered.

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