Shimao (Chinese: 石峁; pinyin: Shímǎo) is a Neolithic site in Shenmu County, Shaanxi, China. The site is located in the northern part of the Loess Plateau, on the southern edge of the Ordos Desert. It is dated to around 2000 BC, near the end of the Longshan period, and is the largest known walled site of that period in China, at 400 ha.

2020年9月28日 · Shimao (石峁) was a stone city built 4,300 years ago in Shenmu (神木), Shaanxi Province, home to Terracotta Warriors. It had a total of 425 hectares of site area. In the city, workshops, residences and cemeteries were densely located, with the palace situated on an elevated plateau, while the entire city was protected by city walls.

2025年1月27日 · How could such a sprawling ancient city, covering an area of 4 million square meters, emerge 4,000 years ago in the arid, ravine-crossed loess hills of northern Shaanxi? What level of civilization did the culture of this ancient city achieve, and where do its cultural roots lie?

2020年8月11日 · It is China’s largest Neolithic settlement, covering about 1000 acres during the height of its empire, and 4,300 years old according to carbon dating. The city has a central imperial structure, guarded by a sophisticated design layout of walls and fortified gates, which are somewhat reminiscent of classical Chinese architectural designs.

2020年8月6日 · Crowned by a stepped pyramid more than 200 feet tall, a 4,300-year-old fortress city known as Shimao is challenging traditional narratives about China’s early history. Discoveries at the...

2025年1月27日 · The Shimao in the northern Shaanxi region represents relics that possess certain distinctive features, such as the earliest and most developed appearance of three-legged urns, which can be named the Shimao-type of the Laohushan Culture. The excavators divided the main remains of Shimao site into two phases: early and late.

2023年8月17日 · Shimao is the largest ancient city ever unearthed that dates between the Longshan period (3000 to 1900 B.C.) to the early Xia period (2070 to 1600 B.C.). Legend connects Shimao to the...

2024年2月4日 · In recent years, the discovery of the Shimao Ancient City 石峁古城 in Shenmu, Shaanxi Province, has become an astonishingly great event. 1 Some of the questions which might arise on top of others might include: how could there have been a huge 4000-year old city covering an area of 4 million m 2 in such a dry place crossed with gullies in the north ...

The Shimao (石峁) site, located in northeastern Shaanxi Province, is the focus of some of the most exciting work being done in Chinese archaeology today. Since 2012, the site has been included several times in the list of the most important discoveries of Chinese archaeology and was even selected by the first Shanghai Archaeology Forum as one ...

2024年7月6日 · As decades of archeological excavation and research has revealed, the Shimao city site was a very large center of settlement, the main part of which encompasses an almost 1,000-acre area (more than 4 million square meters …