As we all know, Guilin is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangxi, a national historical and cultural city, and has the reputation of "Guilin Landscape and Water". The name "Guilin" first appeared in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and in the "Hai Nei Nan Jing" there is a record of "Guilin Eight Trees, in fanyu east". During the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, Guilin was the residence of the Baiyue people, and during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, Lingnan belonged to the land of Baiyue, while Guilin belonged to Baiyue. During the Qin Dynasty, Guilin County was set up, and during the Western Han Dynasty, it belonged to Jingzhou Lingling County, and during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it belonged to the General Administration of Lingnan Guizhou. During the Song Dynasty, Guilin belonged to Jingjiang Province, and during the Yuan Dynasty, Shengjingjiang Province was Jingjiang Road, so Guilin was also known as "Jingjiang" during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. During the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew was given the title of King of Jingjiang, the domain of Guilin, and during the Qing Dynasty, it still belonged to Guilin Province. Today I want to tell you that the ruins of The Koshiki Rock in Guilin, Guangxi Province, excavated pottery and snail shells, the ancestors of ten thousand years ago were so good at this mouthful!
Located in the southwest foothills of Dushan Mountain in the southern suburbs of Guilin City, in the 1960s, the first national cultural relics census, the Guilin Cultural Relics Census Working Group accidentally discovered the site of The Koshibayan Cave in the southern suburbs of Guilin during the investigation of Dushan Mountain in the southern suburbs of Guilin. After the trial excavation of the cultural relics staff, 5 human bones and a batch of production and living tools were excavated, so it was initially determined that this was an ancient human site. In the 1970s, in response to the national policy of "digging deep holes and accumulating grain", air raid shelters were excavated in Guilin's Koshipiyan, and some cultural accumulations were destroyed during the use of explosives to blast. In order to protect the site from being destroyed again, the Guilin Municipal Cultural Relics Department reported to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for approval to carry out rescue excavations of the Koshiki rock site. The main cave is about 8 meters high, about 13 meters wide, about 22 meters deep, and the area inside the cave is about 200 square meters, which has undergone two large-scale archaeological excavations.
The first excavations in the 1970s found remains of ash pits and fire pits, and unearthed relics such as pottery, stone tools, bone tools, mussels and animal skeletons. Among them, there are more than 30 human skeletons, 14 of which are relatively well preserved, and their "flexed limbs and squatting burial" is a unique phenomenon. After the excavation site carbon 14 dating off, the site is 7500 to 9000 years old, which is the inhabited site of the early Neolithic ancestors. After the 21st century, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Guangxi Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and the Guilin Museum once again carried out archaeological excavations on the site of the Koshiki rock cave. Through excavation, the accumulation status and stratigraphic relationship of the site were clarified, a large number of cultural relics with clear stratigraphic relationships were obtained, and prehistoric human life tools, production tools and animal remains such as pottery, stone tools, bone tools and mussels were excavated. The discovery of 5 tombs and 1 stone tool processing site was determined by carbon 14 years, dating from about 7,000 to 12,000 years ago.
Through the identification of the remains of the tomb human skeleton, the ancestors of the Koshikiyan belonged to the Mongol race, which is the closest to the South Asian race among the Mongol race, but there is a certain difference from the current South Asian race. The second archaeological excavation found about 12,000 years ago, which is the oldest pottery found in China, and the discovery of the plain sand pottery has advanced the dating of the Koshibashi rock site by nearly 3,000 years. Archaeologists say that the invention of koshiki pottery is likely related to cooking field snails and mussel shells, because a large number of snail shells have been excavated together with pottery. A large number of snail shells are scattered in the site of Koshiki Rock, which proves that the ancestors of Koshiki Rock have a special love for snails, mussels and other foods, which are difficult to swallow raw, and can get more delicious snail meat by cooking. The discovery of the Koshiki rock site breaks the view that the development of ancient Human civilization in China lags in the south, and proves that the koji rock site is the central place of the ancestral life of the ancestors in Guilin between 12,000 and 7,000 years ago, and is the longest-lived Neolithic cave site found in China.