BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhuanet) -- The list of China's top 10 Chinese archaeological findings of 2002 was announced by the Chinese society of archaeology on Sunday, according to Monday's China Daily.
The top 10 includes a historical site in Geqiao, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region where man of the Neolithic age made quantities of stone artifacts, and relics of an ancient city in Liye, central China's Hunan province where more than 36,000 bamboo slips documenting events of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) were unearthed, the English language newspaper said.
There was also a tomb of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) in Rizhao, east China's Shandong province, remains of a pagoda in Yenan, north China's Hebei province, and a tomb in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province in which colorful murals of 330 square meters were found. The later two date back to the Northern Dynasties (AD 386-581).
In Yanbian, northeast China's Jilin province, archaeologists discovered remains of the capital of the Bohai Kingdom which prospered in the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) and mysteriously fell into oblivion.
In Acheng, northeast China's Heilongjiang province, archaeologists also unearthed remains of a grand palace covering 50,000 square meters in the old capital of the Jin Dynasty (AD 1269-1368).
Meanwhile, an ancient distillery found in Lidu, central China's Jiangxi province, dates back spirits making to the Yuan Dynasty (1269-1368).
Relics of a country in Badong, central China's Hubei province, which prospered from the Northern and Southern Dynasties (AD 386-589) to the Song Dynasty (AD 960-1279) and remains of a porcelain warehouse used in the Song Dynasty in Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang province were also selected in the top 10.
