Archaeological site reveals jade production process

Nanyang in Henan province is planning to build an archaeological park at Huangshan village, which was a neolithic site with a jade workshop.

Excavations across an area of 2,400 square meters at the Huangshan site were conducted by the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Nanyang City Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology from May 2018 to January 2022.

The dig revealed important features dating from the Yangshao, Qujialing and Shijiahe Culture periods, including one dock and one section of a canal, 48 houses and stone or jade workshops, 146 tombs, nine sacrificial pits and more than 140 urn burials, in addition to 45,000 stone or jade objects.