Persimmon Beach Site
The Paleolithic ancient human cultural relics was found at Persimmon Beach 10 kilometers southeast of Hukou Waterfall. They lived 20,000 years ago. Experts believe that the ancestors in Persimmon Beach were a clan group. They lived in collecting and fishing. They have their own culture. Mutton was their main food, and the tools were mainly stone-making tools. It belongs to the early stage of the Mesolithic Age. From 2000 to 2001, under the guidance of the Linfen Muncipal Cultural Relics Department, Large-scale cleaning and excavation were carried out, and 1,807 stone products were obtained, as well as a large number of precious animal jaws, horns, teeth, and eggshell fragments fossils. This major discovery was listed as the first of the top ten archaeological discoveries in China in 2001.
