Recently archeologists found a house built 9,000 years ago in
Zhengzhou together with an ancient sewerage system and stoneware
workshops. Experts saw that from the structure of the house one can
get basic knowledge on China's ancient villages.
A reporter from Zhengzhou Evening News revealed on Sunday that
some 6,000 sq m of ancient house sites had been unearthed.
Xin, one of the experts, told the reporter that the current site
place occupied an area of 300 thousand sq m.
Zhang Songlin, director of the local archeological research
institute, said that the site was well preserved, and he said it
was crucial to the academic research of China's ancient
history.
(Chinanews.cn August 9, 2007)