Yanjiagang Paleolithic Sites

Yanjiagang Paleolithic Site is located 25 kilometers southwest of Harbin City, on the first terrace of Songhua River. Due to the cutting of the Yunliang River, a tributary of the Songhua River, the relics in the terrace deposits were revealed. In the summer of 1982, a number of paleontological fossils with traces of artificial strikes were discovered during the cultural relics survey conducted by the Harbin Cultural Management Station, and a batch of ancient animal fossils such as mammoths, woolly rhinos, and bison were unearthed in the subsequent trial excavations. Two other stone products and a fossilized human skull were collected. It is confirmed that there were ancient human activities in the Yanjiagang area in the late Paleolithic period. Later, the Heilongjiang Provincial Cultural Relics Management Committee organized excavations, unearthed more than 3,000 specimens, and discovered two semicircular remains surrounded by a large number of mammal bones, making it an important Paleolithic site in northern my country.