The skeleton is nearly two meters in the tomb of 5,000 years in China

Many other tall remains are often found in ancient tombs excavated in Shandong, China.

Chinese archaeologists found that the five-millennium-old remains in Shandong province were unusually tall, Xinhua reported yesterday. The remains of a man in the grave have a height of 1.9 meters, while several others are over 1.8 meters tall.

"If this person is alive, his height will surely be over 1.9 meters," said Fang Hui, principal of Shandong University's School of History and Culture.

A skeleton remains excavated at Tieu Gia relic.(Photo: Xinhua).

Since 2016, archaeologists excavated the ruins of 104 houses, 205 tombs and 20 sacrificial holes in Tieu Gia village in Zhangqiu district of Jinan city, the capital of Shandong province.

These relics belong to Long Son culture , the late Neolithic civilization in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, named after Long Son mountain in Chuong Khau. "At that time, agriculture developed. People had a rich and nutritious food source, so their bodies changed," Fang said.

Fang said the millet is the main food crop in the region. In addition, people also raise pigs because in some graves there are still traces of bones and pig teeth.

According to the study, taller men are in larger graves, more likely to have high status and good food. Outstanding height is one of the highlights of Shandong people. Confucius (551-479 BC) is also of Shandong origin and has a height of about 1.9 meters. In 2015, the average height of 18-year-old youth in Shandong was 1,753 meters, far exceeding the national average of 1.72 meters.

The ruins of blocks in the excavation area indicate that ancient Shandong people lived quite comfortably with separate bedrooms and kitchens. Wang Fen, leader of the digging team of Jiajia, said they also found multicolored ceramics and jade objects in six large tombs.

The area is a cultural, economic and political center in northern Shandong 5,000 years ago. D i only Tieu Gia has been expanded from the original 240,000m ² to a km ² . The research team has just excavated 2,000 square meters.