Shuangdun site is located in the north of Shuangdun village, xiaobengbuTown, Huaishang District, Bengbu City, Anhui Province. There are a large numberof pottery, stone tools, bone horn ware, clam ware, burnt earth buildingremains, animal bones, conch shells, etc. unearthed from the site of Shuangdunculture. There are many kinds of production tools, living utensils, a largenumber of depiction symbols and clay sculpture works.
About 7000 years ago, more than 600 pieces of ancient pottery depictingsymbols were unearthed from Shuangdun site. These pottery have simple patterns,rough techniques, exaggeration in realism, magical and strange styles, and havethe taste and mystery of primitive art. Most depict symbols, pictures, orcomposite pictures containing symbols. Most of the symbols are depicted in thecircle feet of the bowl, and only a few are depicted in the abdomen of the bowlor in different parts of other utensils. Among them, there are a large number ofvivid pictographic symbols, most of which are fish patterns and pig patterns, aswell as deer, silkworms, birds and insects. Xu Dali, a researcher of BengbuMuseum, said that after research, it was found that the image of "four leafflower" appeared from time to time, which may be the content of "phenologylegislation" at that time. Hunting, fishing, netting, sericulture, planting andso on are like "comic strips".
In the middle of October 20__, the second excavation of Shuangdun site,which has attracted much attention, began. The archaeological team excavated 16exploration sites in the northwest corner of Shuangdun site one by one.According to the early archaeological excavation, Shuangdun site is surroundedby water from east to west and North. In the exploration area, pottery pieces,clam shells, snail shells and animal bones of different sizes and shapes aredistributed on the open-air soil layer. The staff are carefully separating thesoil from the utensils. A large number of utensils have been unearthed from thesite, including a large number of pottery pieces such as sand pottery and claypottery, large cooking utensils with large mouth and small bottom, as well assupporting feet and supports. There are various types of flat bottomedcauldrons, a large number of animal bones, fish bones and shells, as well asboots, utensils made of antlers and net pendants. This time, a pile of potterypieces was found in the northern part of the site, a strip-shaped groove withspiral shells was found in the southern part, and a trench was found outside thesite to distinguish them. "It can be seen from these unearthed pieces that theywere all selected artificially. In addition, this is not consistent with thearea previously inferred, which is relatively small. In this area, a largenumber of cultural relics such as pottery pieces and animal bones have beenexcavated, and most of the pottery is broken, which may be related tosacrificial activities.
Experts who study the symbols have come to the conclusion that the symbolsof Shuangdun are similar to those of other Neolithic sites, such as Banpo inXi'an, Jiangzhai in Lintong, Yangjiawan in Yichang, liulinxi in Zigui, Liuwan inQinghai, Dawenkou and Liangzhu, but they also have their own characteristics.This kind of depiction symbol is also found in the houjiazhai site in Dingyuan,which indicates that it is a record symbol to express specific meanings amongclan communities in a certain area. Shuangdun site about 7000 years ago, thehead of pottery face, is designated as a national cultural relic.
Shuangdun site excavated a large area of cultural relics, specialdistribution pattern and cultural connotation, which is unique in the sameperiod of cultural sites in China. It has been confirmed that the northern partof the site is related to sacrificial activities.
The second excavation of Shuangdun site will provide new evidence forexploring the origin of ancient civilization in the Huaihe River Basin andunderstanding the relationship between the civilization in the Huaihe RiverBasin and that in the Yellow River and Yangtze river basins.