Dolmens on the Upper Reaches of the Huifa River
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  Dolmens on the Upper Reaches of the Huifa River Location within China | |
| Location | Jilin Province |
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| Region | Liuhe County |
| Coordinates | 42°16′46″N 125°54′14″E / 42.279388°N 125.903925°E |
| Type | Tombs |
| History | |
| Periods | Mid to Late Pottery Period |
| Cultures | Northern-style East Asian megaliths, Yemaek, Seodansan[1] |
| Architecture | |
| Architectural styles | Megalithic tombs |
| Dolmens on the Upper Reaches of the Huifa River | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 輝發河上游石棚墓 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 辉发河上游石棚墓 | ||||||
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The Dolmens on the Upper Reaches of the Huifa River are a collection of more than 80 megalithic tombs found along two tributaries of the Huifa River.[2]
The dolmens are located in the administrative divisions of Liuhe County and Meihekou City in Tonghua, Jilin. They are distributed throughout the drainage basins of the Yitong (Chinese: 一統河; pinyin: yītǒng hé) and Santong (Chinese: 三統河; pinyin: sāntǒng hé) rivers, both tributaries of the Huifa River. Most were built on low-lying mountain ridges.[2]
More than 80 dolmens have been recorded. The majority were made using a worked granite slab for the floor, three to four rectangular or square slabs as walls, and a large slab that was placed on the top to act as an overhanging roof. Most slabs measure over 1 metre, but the largest is approximately 2 metres.[2] The deceased was sometimes interred inside the dolmen or in a pit below the monument. In the latter cases, the walls of the grave were either made from stone or tamped earth.[3]
Excavations of the burials have discovered human remains, stone arrowheads, and reddish-brown coarse pottery.[4]
