Baijinbao () is an archaeological site of the Baijinbao culture (白金宝 文化 Baijinbai Wenhua), a Bronze Age culture in China's northeastern province of
Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...
, dated by about 900 BC, the time of the
Western Zhou period. The site is located in the village Baijinbao (Ch. 白金宝 屯) on the left bank of the Nen Jiang 嫩江 river near a town Minyi () of the
Zhaoyuan county in the
Songnen Plain
The Songnen Plain () in Northeast China is named after the Songhua and Nenjiang Rivers and is connected to the Sanjiang Plain through the Songhua River Valley; a small plain lies north of Xingkai Lake
Lake Khanka (russian: о́зеро Ха́ ...
.
The site was discovered in 1974. Baijinbao culture ceramics resembles that of the
Zhongyuan area.
Since 1996 the Baijinbao site is on the list of the People's Republic of China's archeological monuments (4-23).
Literature
* Catch 北方 文物 Wenwu 1997.04: An Excavation Report in 1986 of Baijinbao site in Zhaoyuan County, Heilongjiang, by The Relics and Archaeological Research Institute of Heilongjiang and Archaeological Department of Jilin University. Beijing, 1997 (''Chinese'')
* Nicola Di Cosmo, ''The Northern Frontier in Pre-Imperial China//The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC'', Edited by M.Loewe and E.L.Shaughnessy.
References
External links
Baijinbao Yizhi- (''Chinese'')
- (''Chinese'')
Bronze Age in Songnen Plain: A Case Study of Cultural Relics in Baijinbao Zhaoyuan- (''Chinese'')
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{{Prehistoric cultures of China
Archaeological cultures of China
Zhaoyuan County
Bronze Age in China
Archaeological sites in China
Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Heilongjiang
9th-century BC establishments in China