Archaeologists unearth 7,000-year-old workshop
(China Daily)
Updated: 2004-10-26 09:05

A 7,000-year-old stonemason's workshop has been discovered in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Many finished stone tools and raw materials have been unearthed across the half-kilometre-square site in Alashan League in the region.

Among the pieces found so far by archaeologists are different kinds of stone axes and balls.

Experts said the axes follow a fairly common standard, reports www.xinhuanet.

Li Guoqing, a researcher with a local museum said the workshop is thought to date from between 5,000 and 2,000 BC.

Experts believe the region, now desert, was farmland 4,000 years ago.

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