These showed things, whether a grinding rod?Zhejiang province is an economically developed province, serried with factories, but if ask when the earliest “professional factories” appeared. Anything to say?Yesterday, the provincial archaeology and tonglu county government announced at a news conference in tonglu: after nearly two months of digging, tonglu Fang Jiazhou site is identified as a jade stone processing space are about 5900-5300 years before present,which is by far of the first neolithic jade stone plants of the Yangtze river basin.In popular words, it is likely to be the ancestor of “professional factory”.

A traditional view broked.The business also exist in primitive society.The traditional view considered that people in the primitive society are self-sufficient: people chipped stone tools on their own, have their hunt prey, building his own cottage, a village continue hundreds or even thousands of years once settle down, rarely communicate with the outside world.With discovering of professional jade stone factories of Fang Jiazhou sites, however, may break this traditional view.The experts told:the discovery of the site provide valuable data for study of our ancestors' original exchange,trade.Fang jiazhou site is located in tonglu county, Pan village, the site body era is about the later period of Majiabing culture of northern area of Zhejiang province, at stage of culture of Songze.Archaeological team found vast stone processing tools and processing objects, stone processing tools are mainly stone hammer, stone anvil, whetstone, etc. Besides, there're a few zax, stone knife, etc. As this site is so far found of no tombs and living areas, experts concluded it's a professional jade stone plants then.What's rare, the site also found quartz texture jade and a large number of raw material related to jade and semi-products.The jade plant is another important discovery since the found of Black sand site of jade making, which is of significant meaning in early jade research.
A new question come into being. Where does the product of this plant sold to, and as a plant, it surely will sell products, then who would these jades sold to? And through what method that it handle over to purchaser.The archaeology leader told: as that site is still in digging process, base on present datas,these problems are without exact answers. The belongings of stoneware and jadeware can only as proper guess. The belonging may goes to the flat area like Shanghai and Jiaxing, which also part of majiabing culture and culture of Songze. Expert said, these places are basically without mountains, therefore the ancestors who lived there are hard to process vast of stonewares, so they could purchase from some workshop with vast raw materials like Fang jiazhou plant. Of course, the detailed purchasing details, like what to exchange jade stone, or the method to transport back, all these problems are mysteries waiting answers.
Now it found two burning holes within the site, a burning hole have been unearthed a renewable coarse slurry spade shape curio.A fun game started. The mystery of Fang jiazhou is far more than these.At present, the cultural relics from this site also perplex experts, how to name this thing. The disturbing thing(showed as pic), it's a kind of strip type stoneware with two ends or one end with spin trace, it found in the Neolithic Age jade making workshop, like Black sand site for small amount. While the Fang jiazhou site found more than 10 pieces. As this utensils only found in jade workshop of Neolithic Age,therefore it's related to jade making definateBut there's no consensus for its detailed usage. Some experts said it's the drilling head, others expressed that it's “handhold lydian stone”，and there're also experts regard it as the windlass axial apparatus.