Xi'an Banpo Museum

Author: Wang Yingjuan
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: The ancient and ever-flowing Yellow River, like the milk of a mother, nourishes the vast and profound Loess Plateau. The land of Sanqin is left with the glorious footprints of the ancestors of the Chinese nation. Through the ages, the distant history has long been covered by the endless loess, and the bustling past has been submerged by the endless years. The excavation of the Banpo Site is the first large-scale exposure of prehistoric settlement sites in China's prehistoric archaeology, obtaining rich prehistoric archaeological materials, and opening up new fields for the study of settlement archaeology and environmental archaeology in China. It fills a major gap in Chinese history during the Neolithic Age, giving people a new understanding of the long-standing ancient Chinese civilization. The Banpo Museum in Xi'an is the first prehistoric site museum in China and even in Asia, playing a positive role in the development of site museums in China and adding new fields for practice and research. Let us follow the author's description, step into that mysterious and distant era, get close to the hardworking and simple Banpo people, experience the rich and diverse material production, interpret the strange and fantastical spiritual world, and marvel at the hard-won inventions and creations.