Heilongjiang: More than 90,000 stone artifacts, dating back to the Neolithic period more than 5,000 years ago, have been unearthed in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. The artifacts were discovered in the Shiren cave relic site, located east of Shihe Village in Hailin City, and most of them are bifaces and their processing product, China’s News Agency said.

According to Qatar News Agency, the Heilongjiang provincial institute of cultural relics and archaeology stated that, based on carbon-14 dating results, the cave was excavated no later than about 5,700 years ago. The vice director of the institute and head of the archaeological team highlighted that the stone wares found at the site are of great value for studying the transition from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age, as well as the development of prehistoric society in northeast China.

This archaeological excavation provides a wealth of data for the study of stone technology, production, and lives of ancient humans in different periods in
the area. Li noted that this is of great significance for better understanding human origins and migration, and it also provides important evidence for the study of the origin of Chinese civilization.