2,000-Year-Old Wooden Houses Found in China - Archaeology Magazine

2,000-Year-Old Wooden Houses Found in China - Archaeology Magazine

SHAOXING, CHINA—The Global Times reports that archaeologists discovered remarkably well-preserved wooden houses in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, that date to the Warring States period (475–221 b.c.). The site would have once been part of a waterfront metropolis within the capital of the Yue State, which controlled parts of southeastern China in the first millennium b.c. The stilted and terraced wood-frame structures would have been covered with reeds and …