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Recent Archaeological Discoveries
Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Tuen Mun
The Bronze Age (circa 1,500 B.C. - 221 B.C.)
According to historical records, during the Bronze Age the ethnic Bai Yue people had already settled in southern China. The Bronze Age artefacts unearthed in Tuen Mun and other areas could therefore havebeen left by the ancient Yue people. As early as the 1920s, scholars collected in So Kwun Wat relics typical of the Bronze Age, such as double-f pottery sherds, stone adzes and stone ring cores. In recent years, archaeological finds such as the bronze arrowheads and a bronze knife unearthed in the Lung Kwu Tan archaeological site, the double-f pottery sherds, the hard pottery sherds with geometric patterns and the stone knives uncovered in the Lung Kwu Sheung Tan archaeological site as well as the stone spearheads found in the So Kwun Wat archaeological site, have all proved that our ancestors once settled in Tuen Mun and the surrounding areas in the Bronze Age.
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