Tiger Rock Site

Tiger Rock Site, a provincial-level cultural relic protection site, is located in a relatively independent limestone cave in Hucun Town, Ninghua County, Sanming City, Fujian Province. It totally covers an area of about 15,000 square meters outside and inside the cave. Some beaten stone products together with eight ancient human’s teeth fossils and a number of mammal fossils about 10,000-40,000 years old are collected and excavated in the calcium plate layer. The cultural accumulation layer is about one meter thick, and the upper entrance to the cave is a site of the late Neolithic culture. More than thousands of teeth fossils of various animals in 20 kinds are collected in the cave, among which 17 species can be identified, including giant panda, sword tooth elephant, macaque, rhinoceros, porcupine, rat, hare, bear, hyena, boar, buffalo, bison, etc; these animals belong to nine orders, including Insectivorous, Pterioptera, Metonymy, Recornis, Rabbitomorpha, Carnivora, and Artiodactyla. Analysis shows that the animal group of giant panda should be Swordtooth fauna. At the same time, many animal skeletons have been found, on which there are obvious marks of ancient human’s hack. The animal skeletons fossils are of high historical value, which are important materials for the study of ancient human culture and the development of ancient vertebrates, as well as human activities in the old and new Stone Age in Fujian.