More than 6000 years ago, there were people living here, that is, Xudun site on the south bank of Qishuyan Canal. The site covers an area of about 200,000 square meters. There have been five scientific excavations, and more than a thousand complete relics and tens of thousands of pottery specimens have been unearthed. It is an important settlement site of Majiabang culture in primitive society in southern Jiangsu.

At that time, the polder had a warm and humid climate and dense vegetation. People build low and humble huts in relatively low places in Gao Shuang, plant and harvest rice with polished stone axes, shovels, hoes, knives or mussels, and live a settled life with agriculture as the mainstay.

Witton site

Because of low productivity, planting can't guarantee people's food and clothing. In order to supplement food artificially, gathering, fishing and hunting became an important means to obtain living materials at that time. People shoot and throw at wild animals with bone arrows, stone arrows and stone balls, and fish with bone darts and nets. Pigs have been domesticated as domestic animals.

At that time, people were able to burn sand-filled pottery for kettles and tripod cookers and clay pottery for pots, beans, pots, bowls and cups. The temperature of these pottery is not too high, about 600 ~ 900 degrees Celsius. Moreover, there were few decorative patterns on the surface of early pottery, and later there were carved patterns, chords, meshes, carved holes and petal-shaped decorations. The production of a large number of pottery reflects that some people began to specialize in pottery making.

Taomianren

The Wittons also engaged in primitive textile activities with ceramic or stone spinning wheels, bone needles and bone cones, and put on linen clothes.

At that time, people knew something about aesthetics. They put bones in their hair, wear jade pieces and bracelets on their ears, or string ornaments such as jade yellow, jade beads, jade tubes and ape teeth around their necks to beautify themselves. The custom of tooth extraction is prevalent among adults, which may also be related to aesthetics.

The wooden paddles and paddles unearthed from the site show that the Wittons have been able to make canoes and other water vehicles, and they can sail and fish freely on rivers and lakes. A solid step has been taken to conquer nature. The wooden paddle unearthed here is the only one found in the early Neolithic site in China, and people call it "the first paddle in China".