On December 20, the Central Radio and Television Station released the top ten domestic archaeological news and the top ten international archaeological news in 2021, and the Paleolithic ruins of Pirao were found in Daocheng on the list of the top ten international archaeological news.
Stone breaks the sky
September 27, 2021
The State Administration of Cultural Heritage held a work meeting on the progress of major projects in "Archaeology china"
It was announced that one had been found in Daocheng County
Paleolithic ruins with an area of about 1 million square meters
- The Pirro ruins
Geographical location of the Pirro ruins
The site of Pirao is located in Daocheng County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
It is the largest area found on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau so far and the best preserved strata
Stacked continuously, culturally diverse
Large Paleolithic site
In April 2021, the Sichuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Peking University formed a joint archaeological team to officially carry out archaeological excavations at the Pilo site, revealing the continuous stratigraphic accumulation and cultural strata since the end of the Middle Pleistocene to the Late Pleistocene, no later than 130,000 years ago, and excavated more than 10,000 stone products from 7 cultural layers, showing the Paleolithic cultural development sequence of "gravel stone tool - hand axe combination - stone chip stone tool".
Daocheng County Piluo Village has unearthed tens of thousands of stone products, which are exquisitely made, mature in technology and complete in combination, completely subverting the cognition of archaeologists. This also proves that as early as 130,000 years ago, there were already human activities in the territory of the current Ganzi Prefecture.