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Shimao 石峁遗址Shímǎo Yízhǐ
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Yulin, Shaanxi
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yulin
- Region
- Shaanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Shimao
The ruins of a stone-walled city built around 2300 BC and abandoned around 1800 BC, the largest known walled settlement of China's late Neolithic, with inner and outer stone walls enclosing more than 400 ha around a terraced palace platform called Huangchengtai. It is now a national archaeological site park and on China's tentative list for World Heritage. The Shimao Museum, opened in November 2023, shows 688 jades, stone carvings, pottery, bone objects and painted mural fragments from the site.
How to get to Shimao
Near Gaojiabu town, about 55 km north-east of Yulin or 40 km south-west of Shenmu, roughly an hour by road from either.
Nearby
- Yulin Old Town and Zhenbeitai 榆林古城·镇北台 60 km
A four-tier Ming watchtower on the Great Wall and an old garrison street under six towers
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