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Chengtoushan Archaeological Site Park 城头山遗址Chéngtóushān Yízhǐ
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Changde, Hunan
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Changde
- Region
- Hunan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Chengtoushan Archaeological Site Park
Chengtoushan, on the Liyang plain north-west of Li County town, is a round Neolithic town about 325 m across inside a rammed-earth wall and moat that were first built in the Daxi culture more than 6,000 years ago and enlarged several times before the town was abandoned around 4,000 years ago. Excavations from 1991 uncovered house platforms, pottery kilns, cemeteries, an altar, very early fired bricks and rice paddies that are among the oldest known anywhere. Since 2016 the site has been a national archaeological site park, with the walls and moat laid out for visitors and a site museum for the finds.
How to get to Chengtoushan Archaeological Site Park
About 12 km north-west of Li County town, in Chengtoushan town; Li County town is roughly 1.5 hours by road north of Changde.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Yu Family Memorial Arch 余家牌坊 (under 10 km), Pengshan Scenic Area, Li County 彭山 (under 10 km), Lizhou Ancient City Wall 澧州古城墙 (10 km), Lizhou Confucian Temple 澧州文庙 (10 km), Duo'an Bridge 多安桥 (10 km), Former Residence of Lin Boqu 林伯渠故居 (20 km).
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