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Shangshan Archaeological Site Park 上山遗址Shàngshān Yízhǐ
National heritage site · Jinhua, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jinhua
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Shangshan Archaeological Site Park
The site in Huangzhai town, Pujiang, that gave its name to the Shangshan culture, a group of early Neolithic settlements in the Jinhua–Quzhou basin about 10,000 years old. Excavations since 2001 have found pottery tempered with rice husks, grinding stones and remains of some of the world's earliest cultivated rice. It has been an archaeological park since 2016, with a display hall, a research centre and surrounding rice fields, and was named a national archaeological park in 2025.
How to get to Shangshan Archaeological Site Park
In Huangzhai town, about 8 km east of Pujiang county town by road; Pujiang station on the Hangzhou–Wenzhou high-speed railway, opened in 2024, is about 4 km to the north.
Nearby
- Hengdian World Studios 横店影视城 40 km
A working film backlot of palaces and old streets, run as a theme park
Also within 20 km: Zhengyimen (First Family South of the Yangtze) 郑义门 (under 10 km), Longde Temple Pagoda, Pujiang 龙德寺塔 (under 10 km), Fang Clan Ancestral Hall, Tangxia 塘下方大宗祠 (10 km), Xianhua Mountain, Pujiang 仙华山 (10 km), Former Residence of Chen Wangdao 陈望道故居 (10 km), Bamian Hall, Huangshan Village (Yiwu) 黄山八面厅 (10 km).
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