BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The following are highlights of China's archaeological news from the past week:

-- Residential ruins of Neolithic Age found on north China grassland

Archaeologists have discovered residential ruins dating to the Neolithic Age on grassland in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The ruins were found on the Xianghuang Banner grassland, with more than 270 decayed houses unearthed, in addition to animal bones, pottery, and a vast array of stoneware.

Based on the discoveries, experts concluded that the ruins belong to the Yumin culture, a civilization discovered in 2015, and believed to be the beginning of the Neolithic Age on the grasslands of northern China.

-- Two ancient tombs unearthed in central China

Two ancient tombs dating back more than 1,800 years have been discovered in the city of Zixing, central China's Hunan Province. The tombs have given up more than 30 pieces of cultural relics.

Separated by two meters, both were brick-chamber tombs from the same period.

From one of the tombs, probably for a man, 23 cultural relics such as bronze ware, celadon ceramics, pottery, and iron knives were unearthed, while copper coins, pottery, and celadon ceramics were found from the other.

-- Avenue of ancient Chinese capital unearthed in central China

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2.5-km-long avenue dating back nearly 2,000 years on the site of the ancient capital of Luoyang in central China's Henan Province.

The road, about 34 meters wide, was a major east-west avenue extending between the relic sites of Ximingmen and Qingyangmen in the southern part of Luoyang. The avenue was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) and continued in use until the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534), a period of around 500 years. Enditem

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