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On April 7, the preliminary results of the 2025 National Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries were announced. A total of 21 projects, including the Fanchang Shenduntou Site in Anhui, the Paleolithic Site Group in the Eastern Changbai Mountains of Jilin, the Jinan City Site in Jingzhou, Hubei, and the Epang Palace Site in Xi'an, Shaanxi, were shortlisted for the final evaluation.
The Fanchang Shenduntou Site is located in Pingpu Town, Fanchang District, Wuhu City, covering an area of approximately 80,000 square meters. The site is roughly concave in plan. In 2024 and 2025, under the organization and guidance of the Anhui Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, Nanjing Normal University, in collaboration with the Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the Wuhu Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and the Fanchang District Cultural Relics Protection Center of Wuhu City, conducted two archaeological excavations at the site, uncovering an area of 1,640 square meters. The excavations revealed 186 features, including earthen walls, doorways, moats, and roads, and unearthed 923 artifacts such as ceramic li tripods, jars, axes, adzes, and arrowheads.
The southern Anhui region centered around Fanchang and Tongling is rich in copper resources and is recognized as one of the three major centers of early bronze smelting and casting in China. Although numerous mining and smelting sites dating to the Shang and Zhou dynasties have been discovered in the area, few bronze-casting sites have undergone large-scale excavation. It is understood that the Shenduntou site is the largest known bronze-casting site of the Zhou dynasty in the lower Yangtze River region, with rich cultural connotations and representative significance. It is also an important settlement site from the Western Zhou to the Spring and Autumn period. The site holds great significance for exploring academic issues such as the bronze smelting and casting industry in the Yangtze River basin during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, regional settlement patterns, and even the civilizational process and state formation in the Yangtze River basin. It is a major discovery in the field of metallurgical archaeology of the Shang and Zhou dynasties in the Yangtze River region in recent years.
Source: Anhui Daily
