Weekly snapshot of China's archaeological news

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BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The following are highlights of China's archaeological news from the past week:

-- Remains of 4,000-year-old city unearthed in Anhui

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a major city dating back over 4,000 years in the middle reaches of the Huaihe River.

Located within the Yuhui Village ruins, in the city of Bengbu, in east China's Anhui Province, the ruined city is between 4,100 and 4,400 years old, and belongs to the early and middle stages of the Longshan Culture period.

It is estimated to cover an area of at least 180,000 square meters, calculated by the length of city wall remains.

-- 5,000-year-old jade processing base unearthed in Henan

Ten jade processing workshops that date back around 5,000 years have been unearthed in China, providing key research materials for studying the origin of Chinese civilization.

The scale of the 10 workshops, excavated in the Huangshan ruins in Nanyang, a city in the central province of Henan, can be counted as a large jade processing base.

The discovery fills in the blank of the jade workshop remains in the Neolithic age in the central plains and middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

-- 4,000-year-old grave potteries unearthed in Henan

Tripods for cooking meat, containers for holding food and drinking vases, as well as arrays of earthenware grave goods, unearthed from the ruins of a late Neolithic civilization dating back more than 4,000 years in central China's Henan Province are believed to be the country's earliest of its kind.

A total of 33 earthenware objects were found arranged in order bearing ritual characters. Enditem

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