On the 10th of June in Zhangjiakou, China, on the 10th of June, the three-day public archeological activity in Nihe Bay was successfully completed today. The archeologists of the farmers as an unknown group in the archaeological activities contributed to the group and won the first prize in this event. Awards, 10 migrant workers were awarded the title of "archeologist".
At the age of 55, the villagers of Yanjiawan Village, Datianyu Township, Yangyuan County had a white day. In 1992, they officially entered the ranks of archeology. On the other day, it was stated that in 1992, he grazing in the southwest of the village and found a giant elephant skull while walking on the road. He recalled that the skull was huge and his hands were very hard and heavy. Later, he told this discovery to the archaeological team of the Hebei Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, which is currently carrying out excavations, and gradually became interested in professional archaeology.
I told reporters in the daytime that when we grazing, we like to look through the ground to pick and choose. Stones that look good will also be collected. We will learn from the archaeological team to find the ruins of the Nihe Bay. We know well about the formations, stone tools, and fossils. Now he mainly explores cultural relics and archaeological sites in the Paleolithic period, and sometimes he does some archaeological work during the Neolithic period.
“Farming, digging, fixing, plotting, measuring altitude, direction, and collecting fossils or stone tools.†Han Yu, Hebei Institute of History and Culture, Hebei Normal University is teaching the local peasant people to learn archaeological work at the site of the oil mill at the Nihewan site group. Process. He told reporters that the Nihewan site was widely distributed, and local people would assist the archeological team in discovering underground artifacts. After expert appraisal, they would carry out systematic excavation work on a certain place. In this way, the local people took part in archeology. They discovered, mined and protected the sites. Nihewan Archaeology became a common concern for the people. This was inseparable from the efforts of the public.
According to reports, these peasant archeological villagers work an average of 8 hours a day and excavate about 2 cubic meters of ground. Today, there are 55 human cultural sites over a million years old in the world, and there are 48 sites found in Nihe Bay that last more than a million years. This is inseparable from the efforts of local farmers’ archaeologists .
Cheng Shengquan, director of the Yangyuan County Wenbo Institute, said with a smile that despite the fact that the level of cultural education among these peasant archaeologists is generally low, they have participated in surveys and excavations of more than a dozen sites of the Old Stone Age in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and Danjiang in Hubei Province. The "arch expert" in the archaeological community.
Now, the archaeologists of his farmer and his farmer are still active in the gully ditch of the Nihewan site. When the farmers were busy, they grazing land, mining and excavation during slack farming. In the days of the day, his son was also involved in the archeological team and found fossils of humanity millions of years ago to become their greatest hope now.