On September 25th, it was learned from the Jiangsu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology that the Doushan Site located in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, revealed a city site from the Majiabang Culture period, dating back about 6000 years. This is the first time that a city site from the Majiabang Culture period has been revealed in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The Doushan Site is located on the west side of Doushan Village, Xibei Town, Xishan District, Wuxi City, adjacent to Hengshan in the northeast and Huangniba River in the south. The overall terrain is high in the north and low in the south. The site is about 30 kilometers away from the Yangtze River in the north, 25 kilometers away from the Taihu Lake Lake in the south, and covers an area of about 250000 square meters. It mainly contains the remains of Majiabang culture and Songze culture. It is a prehistoric settlement site with large scale, dense relics and rich connotation. With the approval of the National Cutural Heritage Administration, the Jiangsu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the Archaeological Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Archaeological Research Center of the National Cutural Heritage Administration, Nanjing University, Shanghai Museum and Wuxi Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology formed a joint archaeological team to carry out archaeological excavations. As of now, the archaeological excavation area is about 16000 square meters. What did prehistoric city sites look like 6000 years ago? The reporter saw on site that two inner and outer walls and three trenches were excavated in the northwest of the site, and walls and trenches were also visible in the exploration trenches in the north, east, and south. The overall plan of the city site is a rounded square shape, with the inner walls and outer trenches being able to be completely closed. In the northwest of the site, there is an east-west modern river that runs through the site. On the southern wall section of the river, the interior walls, exterior walls, and trenches of the Majiabang culture period can be clearly seen. The well preserved interior wall is over 1 meter high. The Doushan city site fully relies on Tashan, and north walls are built from both sides of Tashan. Most of the walls are made of relatively pure loess, and some walls are reinforced with large stones. The pottery unearthed in the trench is mainly sand mixed red pottery, with main shapes such as pots, tripods, beans, etc., belonging to the typical characteristics of Majiabang culture. We analyzed that the Doushan city site may have two cities, one inside and one outside. The age of the city site is relatively clear, and the pottery shards unearthed in the trenches are all from the Majiabang culture period. ”Zhou Runken, the head of the archaeological team and vice president of the Jiangsu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, stated that the charcoal, plant seeds, and other materials unearthed in early trenches were dated by carbon-14 dating, with an absolute age of about 6000 years ago. In addition, archaeologists have also revealed important relics such as high-level tombs from the Songze Culture period. Among them, there are over 140 tombs of the Songze culture, and the unearthed burial objects include jade axes, jade decorations, stone axes, stone adzes, pottery tripods, pottery beans, pottery cups, pottery large mouthed jars, etc. Based on the shape of the objects, most of them are judged to be from the middle and late stages of the Songze culture. Some high-level tombs have more than 20 accompanying burial items, both in scale and grade. At the "Expert Demonstration Meeting on the Archaeological Site of Doushan Site" recently held in Wuxi, 16 experts from more than 10 scientific research institutions, including the Archaeological Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Archaeological Research Center of the National Cutural Heritage Administration, Shandong University, Zhejiang University, etc., conducted field survey and full discussion on Doushan Site. Experts unanimously believe that the Majiabang cultural city site revealed by the Doushan site is currently the earliest prehistoric city site in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and one of the earliest prehistoric city sites in China. It has extremely important academic significance and value for the study of the origin of Chinese civilization. (New Society)