Lintao holds the symposium on horse home kiln archaeological site

In September, Lintao county, in Gansu province held the 2014 China Lintao’s international symposium on the horse home kiln archaeological reserve. It drew in a crowd of around 200 experts and scholars from home and abroad, to get together making keynote speeches, visiting the historical sites and celebrating the 90th anniversary of finding the horse home kiln site.

The horse home kiln site is well-known for painted pottery made by Chinese ancestors during the prehistoric period. The site was found in the 1820s.

The symposium themed on developing and protecting the horse home kiln culture, with the participants discussing the features and functions of horse home kiln culture in Chinese civilization, the birth of the culture in the upstream region along the Yellow River, and how to protect the horse home kiln site and take advantages of its cultural resources.

China Lintao’s international symposium on the horse home kiln site was co- hosted by the Institute of Chinese Archaeology, Gansu province’s Archaeology Institute, and Lintao county government.

By Li Xiaoxu and edited by Nicole Fortin