Longevity Rock Cultural Ruins is a national key cultural relics protection unit located to the northeast of Bendian, Yanqian Town of Sanming City. It is a group of lime rock caves. The Paleolithic Age culture is buried in Lingfeng Cave and Chuanfan Cave. The ruin covers a total area of 1,200 square meters with an excavation area of 400 square meters. The manually paved stone ground traced back about 20,000 years ago and discovered in the bottom layer of Chuanfan Cave is the first of its kind in China and is rarely seen in the whole world. Totally, more than 800 stone wares, a small amount of bone and horn objects and over 20 animal fossils with a history of 180,000 years or 1-3 years have been unearthed  There are ruins of ancient human activity as well as diversified historical, human and natural karst topography in the Longevity Rock    Read the article