Primitive Village Ruins in Sidaogou

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The primitive village ruins in Sidaogou are located in Sidaogou of Dongcheng Town currently, Mulei County, Hui autonomous Prefecture of Changji, which is about 10km away from the county. the area of the ruins is about lkm, and the primitive village ruins in Sidaogou are the earliest found primitive village site in Xinjiang.

In 1977, an archaeological team of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region preliminarily surveyed the excavation work, unearthing more than 100 cultura relics as well as clearing two trial trenches, 6 grids and 6 tombs. Stone and bone items enjoyed the most amounts, mainly including stone balls, stone hoes as well as stone spinning wheels, grain milling devices, stone pestles, copper knives, hairpins, and ornaments such as bone needles, bone ornaments, pottery spinning wheels and pottery basins. Among the numerous stone items, there was a particularly precious stone progenitor, which looked like the genital organ. The whole site was divided into 5 layers. Detected by the archaeological experts, the Sidaogou site could be divided into an early phase and a late phase; the 4th layer and the sth layer belonged to the early phase equivalent to the Western Zhou period, having a history of more than 3,000 years; and the 1 layer, the 2 layer and the 3 layer belonged to the late phase equivalent to the Spring-and-Autumn and Warring-States period, the People’s Government of the autonomous Region as a key cultural relf 23 having a history about 2, 400 years. The discovery of the Sidaogou site had a important value in studying the society and production of the western Regions in the late primitive society. In 1990, the Sidaogou site was listed by protection unit.