In 1958, when a student was collecting firewood on Xiaonan Mountain in Raohe County, Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, he accidentally found a strange leaf, out of curiosity, he went forward to pick up the leaf and prepared to take it home to show off to his friends, but when he approached to pick up the leaves, he was surprised, what is this leaf, it is a stone piece, what is the matter?
China has a history of five thousand years of civilization, this land buried under the wisdom of countless Chinese ancestors crystals, and it is precisely because of this, it is not a rare thing to pick up cultural relics on the land of China, but this leaf is not simple, when Xiao Chen picked it up and found that this is a thin stone piece, and the edge of the stone piece is very sharp, so he put the stone piece away and took it home, he felt that this stone piece was very interesting, and after taking it home, he would take it out and play with it from time to time.
But after all, it is also a stone piece, fresh and energetic xiao Chen does not feel anything, so it was thrown into the corner, so until 1965, the relevant cultural relics department organized a cultural relics census in the country, the local cultural relics department also went to the countryside for cultural relics collection, when they came to Xiao Chen's home, the experts inadvertently found this strange stone piece, these experts are quite experienced, at first glance they think that this stone piece is quite extraordinary, so they asked in detail about the origin of the stone piece, After learning about the situation, the experts felt that it might be a precious cultural relic, so after some conversation, they brought the stone piece back for study.
After detailed research and analysis by experts, it was found that this stone piece was an ancient stone spear, with a length of 25 cm and a width of 5.8 cm, a thick shape in the middle, thin and sharp on both sides, and looked very much like a laurel leaf from a distance, well-made. Later, after the expert's carbon fourteen test found that this stone spear has a history of at least 6,000 years, according to time calculations, it belongs to the Neolithic product, which can be said to be priceless, because it is shaped like a laurel leaf, so experts named it a laurel leaf shaped stone spear.
In the face of such precious cultural relics, the experts came to Xiao Chen's house again to explain the situation, and popularized the knowledge related to the cultural relics law to their family, and finally with the efforts of the staff, Xiao Chen handed over this stone tool to the state, and the staff also gave Xiao Chen 10 yuan in cash as a reward. In this way, this precious stone spear has become the treasure of the Heilongjiang Provincial Museum, but what is the purpose of such a stone spear? What is the significance of archaeological research?
After detailed research, experts found that this stone spear is not a simple polished stone tool, from its internal structure can be seen, this is a piece of artificially pressed stone spear, to know that such stone tools in ancient times is quite difficult to make, especially in the backward productivity of the Neolithic Age, it can be said to be extremely rare. The stone tool pressing technology first appeared in the Paleolithic Age, the most commonly used in the Neolithic Age, this laurel leaf shaped stone spear is a representative work in the suppression of stone tools, reflecting the superb level of this pressed stone tool production technology at that time.
After research and analysis, experts felt that there should be an ancient tomb in the place where Xiao Chen saw this stone spear, and finally under the leadership of Xiao Chen, experts came here for detailed investigation, and sure enough, there was a large stone tomb of a Neolithic leader on this mountain, and after excavation, a batch of jade, stone tools and bone tools made of animal bones were unearthed. And this laurel leaf stone spear may be the chief's funerary product, is a symbolic funerary product, so well-preserved and exquisite stone spear to the Neolithic period of history and culture and funeral customs provide very precious physical information, so it has a high research value and collection value.