Name: Ashan Ruins
Era: Neolithic
Category: Ancient ruins
Territory: Donghe District, Baotou City
Level: National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit (The Sixth Batch, June 2006)
Introduction: The site is distributed on the terraces on both sides of the mouth of the knee ditch, with an area of more than 50,000 square meters, and there are stone walls on the periphery, and there are large stone altars on the west terrace. From 1980 to 1981, archaeological excavations were made on the site, and 24 semi-crypt square or rectangular housing sites were found, 240 food storage cellars, and more than 1,600 pieces of various cultural relics such as small-mouth amphora clay pots, large-mouth amphora clay pots, clay bowls, stone axes, stone knives, stone grinding plates (rods), stone clusters, bone needles, bone ornaments and other cultural relics were unearthed. There are four periods of site culture stratification, the first, second and third periods belong to the Neolithic Age, dating back to 5000 to 6000 years, of which the third period of culture is named Ashan culture by archaeology; the fourth period is Bronze Age culture. The Ashan site is a relatively complete clan settlement site in the Yellow River Basin, and is the earliest fortress-style primitive village in Baotou area, which is of great value to the study of the origin of Chinese civilization. The terraces on both sides of the ditch are the protected area of the site. The terrace is west to Ashan Ditch, east to the bottom of the small ditch, north to the top of the mountain, and extends 100 meters to the south for the construction control zone.
Source: Monument to the Protection of Cultural Relics
Ashan Ruins (Huang Xiang in February 2017)
Mongolian stele at the Ashan site (in 1988, it was a key cultural relics protection unit at the level of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region)
Remnants of pottery at the Ashan Site (Huang Xiang in February 2017)
Knee groove (Photo by Huang Xiang in March 2019)
Ashan Ruins (Huang Xiang in March 2019)
Looking down at the Deshengtai Yellow River Bridge from the Ashan ruins (Huang Xiang, March 2019)
Bone needles and syringes excavated from the Ashan site (in the Baotou Museum)
Large-mouth amphora pottery pot excavated from the Ashan site (in Baotou Museum)
Stone knife excavated from the Ashan site (in Baotou Museum)
Huang Xiang (Yin Shan Worm) Finishing: December 2021