Songze Site 崧泽遗址Sōngzé Yízhǐ

About Songze Site

The Neolithic site that gave its name to the Songze culture, with layers going back about 6,000 years, excavated repeatedly from 1960 and now covered by a small site museum opened in 2014 as a branch of the Shanghai History Museum. Displays include a replica of one of China's earliest known wells, a reconstruction of the face of the earliest human skull found in Shanghai, and pottery and jade from the excavations.

How to get to Songze Site

On Huqingping Highway in Zhaoxiang town, Qingpu District, about 2 km from Huijin Road station on Metro Line 17, a short taxi ride. Closed on Mondays except public holidays.

Nearby

• Former French Concession 原法租界 30 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Zhouzhuang 周庄古镇 30 km
  Jiangnan's most famous water town, famed for its Twin Bridges and merchant halls
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 30 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 30 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 30 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other

Also within 20 km: Lianyi Loquat Park 联怡枇杷乐园 (under 10 km), Fuquanshan Site 福泉山遗址 (under 10 km), Moon Lake Sculpture Park 月湖雕塑公园 (under 10 km), Sheshan Hills 佘山 (under 10 km), Happy Valley Shanghai 上海欢乐谷 (under 10 km), Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden 上海辰山植物园 (under 10 km).

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Learn more

• Wikipedia (Chinese)