A cave site containing fragile stone tools and pottery shards believed to be at least 4,000 years old was recently unearthed in Ngari Prefecture, Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
最近,一个洞穴遗址在中国西南部西藏自治区的阿里地区被发现,洞穴里面发现一些碎石器和陶器碎片,据考证至少有4000年的历史。
The Melong Tagphug cave site, with two caves of 1,000 square meters and 250 square meters, is situated about 4,600 meters above sea level.
梅龙达普洞穴遗址位于海拔约4600米处,两处洞穴面积分别为1000平方米和250平方米。
It is the first prehistoric cave site found on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
这是在青藏高原上发现的第一个史前洞穴遗址。
"Besides abundant cultural relics and animal bones, ochre rock paintings with geometric patterns, human figurines, palms and the sun were also found," said He Wei, an archaeologist from Tibet's institute of cultural relics protection.
西藏文物保护研究所考古学家贺伟表示:“洞穴里除了有丰富的文物和动物骨骼外,还发现了绘有几何图案、人像、手掌和太阳的矿石岩画。”
距今4000年! 青藏高原发现首个史前洞穴遗址!
The excavation, which will continue in 2019, was carried out by a joint archaeological team from the regional cultural relics conservation institute and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
来源:可可英语
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