The Dongshan Village Site, 500 meters away from Xiangshan in the west and 2.5 kilometers away from the Yangtze River in the north, is located at Dongshan Village, Nansha Street, Jingang Town of Zhangjiagang City, Suzhou. It was listed as a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level by the State Council of China in 2013.
The Site was found in March 1989. According to the latest exploration and drilling, the site is almost a round shape in plane, the diameter about 500 meters and the total area about 200,000 square meters. From 1989 to 1991, the Suzhou Museum and the Zhangjiagang Municipal Administration of Cultural Relics have carried out three excavations to the site. From 2008 to 2009, the Provincial Institute of Archaeology and the Zhangjiagang Museum did two more excavations. The Site, tilting a bit to the east, south and north directions, has cultural layers in different thickness, varying from 2.5 meters to 3 meters. There are a large area of continuous sintering soil, a large number of pottery pieces, some tofts with circular and semi-circular column holes, reeds, straws, bamboos, rice, pits and other relics. From those tombs of Majiabang Culture and Songze culture, a large number of funerary objects were unearthed. These objects possess not only the local cultural characteristics, but also some other influential factors from Dawenkou Culture in Shandong Province, DaXi Culture in Chongqing, and Northern Yinyang Camp Culture in Nanjing.
During the last two rescue excavations, 10 large tombs were found within the scope of over 500 square meters. Among them, 8 tombs are high-grade large tombs of the early and middle Songze Culture, in which more than 300 pieces of cultural relics were unearthed. One of the tombs are found of 19 pieces of jade, 5 pieces of large stone axes and a total of funerary objects 56 pieces, which is so far the most cultural relics tomb of Songze culture. Dongshan Village Neolithic site has been selected by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as the one of China's Six Major Archaeological Discoveries in 2009.