Dayao Village stone tools factory

Dayao Village stone tools factory

Cultural relics protection units in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is located in Nanshan, Dayao village, baoheshao Township, 33 kilometers northeast of Hohhot. Discovered in 1973, it is a hill composed of Archean granitic gneiss and chert. Flint is hard and suitable for making stone tools. There is an earth slope at the foot of the mountain. The stratum structure is loess, and the lower part is laterite. Ancient people have been mining stones and making stone tools here for a long time. On the site of 2 square kilometers, the semi-finished stone tools made by the ancients and the stone materials mined are everywhere. Human femur fossils, animal fossils, stone tools and stone chips have been excavated. It is identified that the age is about the Paleolithic age, 500000 years ago, and it is named "Dayao" Culture. ". This shows that there is a long history of ancient human activities in Yinshan area of Inner Mongolia. ?

Address: Dayao village, baoheshao Township, Xincheng District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Longitude: 111.94477865842

Latitude: 40.918976399063