Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology,

Excavation on the Xiwan Site in Mianchi County, Henan   (3)

【Abstract:】In order to cooperate with the construction of Huanghe Xiaolangdi Water Project, Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated the Xiawan site in Mianchi County in 1999. The excavation area is 400 m2 in area. The Yangshao remains dominate the assemblage of the site. The features include burials, house foundations and pits. Ceramics are the major artifacts and stone tools are very few.

【Key Words】: Huanghe Xiaolangdi Water Project, Mianchi County, Xiwan site, Yangshao culture, excavation

 

Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology,

Excavation of Western Zhou Cultural Remains on the Nanchen Site in Luoyang City, Henan   (17)

【Abstract:】Nanchen site is one of the important sites that need to salvage excavation in Xixiayuan, Xiaolangdi reservoir project Yellow River. This briefing includes the excavation of Western Zhou Dynasty cultural relics of the site, mainly in middle and late stage of this period. The excavation of Nanchen site provides important data for the archaeology cultural pedigree research of Luoyang region.

【Key Words】Luoyang, Nanchen site, Cultural relics of Western Zhou Dynasty

 

Pingyin County Museum,

Pictorial Stones of the Han Period from the Campus of the Experimental Middle School of Ping yin County, Shandong   (32)

【Abstract:】A Jin tomb built with Han stone  figures was found at Shiyan Middle School in Pingyin county, Shandong in 1991, and unearthed 12 pieces of Han stone figures which show different ages. Of these, the figure of “Zuo Qiuming” located in the front of Yan Yuan on the topic of Confucius meeting Laozi on number 7 has never been found before.

【Key Words】Shiyan Middle School in Pingyin county, Han stone figure, Confucius meeting Laozi

 

History Department, Nanjing University et al.,

Excavation of Tombs of the Han and Song Periods at Xingzhuang in Nanyang City, Henan   (37)

【Abstract:】In cooperation with the Middle-line Project of Water Diversion from South to North, Department of History at Nanjing University and other institutions excavated the ancient cemetery at Xingzhuang, Pushan Town in Nanyang city. Thirteen tombs were revealed and unearthed a few ceramic articles, dating to the Han and Song Dynasties.

【Key Words】Nanyang city, Xingzhuang, Han tombs, Song tombs, excavation

 

Ankang Municipal Museum of History,

Summary on the Excavation of the Tomb of the Southern Dynasties Period at Zhangjiakan in Ankang City, Shaanxi   (47)

【Abstract:】This tomb, revealed in 80s of 20th century, is located at Zhangjiakan in Ankang, Shaanxi. It is rectangular brick-chambered tomb, and unearthed pottery figures, pictorial bricks and other funeral objects. Especially, a brick with “Tianjian Wunian” inscriptions of the Southern Dynasties Liang was found in the tomb. It is therefore significant to publish the materials of the tomb.

【Key Words】Ankang city, Tomb of Tianjian Wunian, pottery figures, pictorial bricks with inscriptions

 

Zhu Zhiyong,

On Some concepts in the current study of Microliths    (55)

【Abstract:】This paper clarifies concepts such as microlithic, microlithic technology and microlithic tradition. The author agrees the viewpoint that microlithic is artifacts made by a special technology, and its content should be in the limit of artifacts related to this technology. Microlithic technology is essentially a flaking technology, but not a tool-making technology. Meanwhile, microlithic tradition is the extension of some microlithic technology.

【Key Words】microlithic, microlithic technology, microliric tradition

 

Luo Yunbing and Fan Jiaping,

On the Cultural Remains of the Round – bottom Fu Cauldron System in the North China Plain   (60)

【Abstract:】There was a branch of independent remains, characterized as compound cookers with surrounding-bottom kettles and supports, in the North China Plain before 6500AD. The remains developed two phases represented by Period Ⅰ&Ⅱ at the Zhengjiangying site. Its main origin was irrelative to the cultures featured as plate base jars in North China including the Cishan culture. Such remains finally evolved into the Hougang 1 culture. The formation of the Shihushan type in the Haidai region, Iner Mongolia was closely related to the remain.

【Key Words】Surrounding-bottom kettles, supports, remain with surrounding-bottom kettles

 

Li Yiping,

Analysis of the “Late Dawenkou Culture Remains” on the Nanxingbu Site   (69)

【Abstract:】The relics which are represented by the pottery with basket-stripe in NanXingBu site do not belong to the XiXiaHou type, DaWenKou culture. Their culture characters are more close to the “YuChiSi” type in the northern Part of AnHui, both of whose culture character should be discussed again.

【Key Words】Nanxingbu, Dawenkou culture, Yuchisi type

 

Chen Guoqing,

A Study of the Hongshan Culture   (73)

【Abstract:】The Hongshan Culture is a very important archaeological culture of the Neolithic Age in the area of southern and northern sides of Yanshan Mountain. Even though scholars had published many articles about the periodization of the Hongshan Culture, there are still much difference among them for the case of lacking materials. In this article, the writer takes the two sites which have better layer relations and were published recently as breakthrough point, and attempts to divide the Hongshan Culture into several periods. In the past, scholars had divided the Hongshan Culture into several different archaeological culture type, the writer discusses the problems about this problem on the base of his periodization.

【Key Words】The Hongshan Culture, The periodization of Culture, Archaeological culture types

 

Zhao Binfu,

On the Settlement Pattern in the Zhaobaogou Culture   (81)
【Abstract:】Based on his study on the settlement patterns of the four Zhaobaogou culture sites, namely Baiyinchanghan, Shuiquan, Xiaoshan and Zhaobaogou, the author argues that, on the available in formation, the settlements of Zhaobaogou culture can be divided into three categories in terms of their sizes, and the settlement structures of the culture could only be understood by large-scale excavations.

【Key Words】Neolithic period, Zhaobaogou culture, settlement patterns

 

Liu Xuetang,

Discovery and Preliminary Study of the Prehistoric Anthropo – morphological Statues Recorded in the Xinjiang Region   (86)

【Abstract:】Many wooden figures have been found from burials in prehistoric Xinjing, varying from several dozen centimeters to more than 3 meters in height, with clothing and even tools in some situations if being well persevered. This article argues that those wooden figures may have been deities representing human souls in early Shamanism and may have little relation with fertility worships as some scholars have had assumed.

【Key Words】wooden figure, Shamanism, deity

 

Yang Rui,

A Preliminary Study of Prehistoric Stone Axes in the Weihe River Valley   (93)

【Abstract:】This article employs the method of archaeological typology to analyze the prehistoric stone axes recovered from the Wei River valley, searches for the change of axe shapes, and discusses the issues about axe functions and social meanings.

【Key Words】Wei River valley, prehistory, stone axes, discussion

 

Li Yong,

On the Shang Period Bronze Zun Vase Unearthed from Liu’an City, Anhui   (101)

【Abstract:】This paper examines the big-orifice Zun of the Shang Dynasty from Liuan, Anhui, in comparison with the similar artifacts from other regions, analyzes the developmental clue of big-orifice Zun in the Shang Dynasty, and discusses the route of Shang culture entering Sichuan based on the distribution of such kind of big-orifice Zun.

【Key Words】big-orifice Zun, Sanxingdui, Shang culture, Taotie pattern

 

Hu Jinzhu,

On the Formation of the Architecture of Royal Mausoleums on the Yin Ruins   (103)

【Abstract:】Both inherited traditions and the oracle and bronze inscriptions suggests that the late Shang Dynasty saw a gradually strengthening of the lineal and non – lineal ideas, which is revealed by the continuously projecting of the kings’ mausoleum in the royal cemetery at Xibeigang site. The two aforementioned processes illustrate the increasing king’s power and the progressively consolidation and final establishment of the rule that the kingship could only be handed down from a king to his own eldest son. Probably started from the earlier part of the first stage of the Yinxu Culture and given relatively specified borders at the very beginning, the western half of the Xibeigang royal cemetery, accepting only king’s own burial, could be labeled as the king’s afterworld palaces in their full meaning, but the eastern half, accommodating differently positioned royal members, could only be regarded as a high degree royal cemetery. After being crowned, king Wuding made an important adjustment on the royal burial rules, regulating that the western half of the royal cemetery could only bury kings themselves and the other royal members could only be interred in other royal burial places such as the very eastern half, the cemetery located to the southwest of Xiaotun palatial city and the western Hougang cemetery. Including the burial of members from non – royal clans and burying the kings and their queens separately in different cemeteries without following the popular custom of burying spouses side by side, the Yinxu royal cemeteries are somewhat different from other common clan cemeteries in the capital in that they have the roles of symbolizing the state sovereignty.

【Key Words】the thought on the different familial positions of lineal and non – lineal descendants, kingship relaying system, the royal cemetery at Xibeigang site, lineal dead kings, non – lineal dead kings rules

 

Yang Lei,

On the Spatial Structure of Zhouyuan   (117)

【Abstract:】Archaeologists have discovered important the Zhou cultural sites at Zhougongmiao since early 2004. These discoveries provide new clues from the historical geographical point of view to understand spatial structure in Zhouyuan. There have been broad and narrow senses about the term of Zhouyuan refer to the capital built by Taiwang and the vicinity in Zhouyuan after he moved from to Qishan. The broad sense of Zhouyuan refers to the orbit developed by Gugong, Jili and Wenwang based on Taiwang’s enterprise. According to the tendency of moving toward east for the political center of Zhou people and the new data recovered from the Zhougongmiao site, this paper argues that the western area centered as present Beiguo and Zhougongmiao should be the core of the Zhou people in the broad sense of Zhouyuan.

【Key Words】Western Zhou, Zhouyuan, historical geography

 

Zheng Junlei,

The Strongly Han influenced Nanyi People: On the Formation of the Han Culture of the Qin – Han Period in the Region South of the Five Ridges   (121)

【Abstract:】The composing of culture factor of NanYue kingdom’s tonbs has three status: one is the very typical Yue-style tomb, which the host is the purity aboriginal Yue people; the second is the Yue-style character decreased and the Han-style factor is also slur, the host of this tomb should be aboriginal Yue people whose culture is affected from Han at a certain extent; and the third is the Han factor is very clear and the Yue factor is still very strong. The tomb’s age of the last status is very late, and the distribution is prevalent, the tribe attribute may be called “reformed Yue people”. Through the analyzing from archaeology culture and history background, the most important source of Lingnan Han people shoude be the “reformed Yue people”. The trend of introjections of the original Yue people and the Han people from north is the reformed Yue people’s formation and grandness. The culture is Han-styled and the meantime the consciousness of tribe is also Yue-styled.

【Key Words】NanYue kingdom’s tombs, Culture factor, Aboriginal Yue people, Reformed Yue people, Lingnan Han people

 

Yan Genqi,

A Study of the Occupant of Tomb 2 at Bao’anshan: Also a discussion with Messrs Liu Zhendong and Tan Qingzhi   (128)

【Abstract:】Aiming at Liu and Tan’s point of view that the Tomb 2 at Baoanshan is King Liangxiao’s tomb and the Tomb 1 is Queen’s tomb, the auther based on the location of tombs, historical documents and archaeological materials argues that the occupant of Tomb 1 is King Liangxiao, and the occupant of Tomb 2 is the queen.

【Key Words】Yongcheng city, King Liang’s Mausoleum, Tomb 2 at Baoanshan, Queen’s tomb

 

Zhao Kexue,

A Complete Example of the Case – reviewing Procedure: Studies of the Han Judicial Slips Zou Xan Shu 《奏谳书》 (Ⅰ)   (134)

【Abstract:】“黥城旦讲乞鞫案”in the Zouxianshu of Han bamboo slips from Zhangjiashan reflects the reexamination procedure in the judicial system in the Qin State. This procedure includes the institute, written inquisition, sessional inquisition; reexamination judgment and disposal after dealing with problems.

【Key Words】Han bamboo slips from Zhangjiashan, bamboo slips of justice, reexamination procedure

 

Jiang Yubin,

Supplements to Pieced – together Oracle – bone Inscriptions (eleven groups)   (137)

【Abstract:】Rejoining is a element task in the study of oracle bones and shells. Though scholars have already made very great efforts, some work will be done in this respect. In this thesis, 11 groups of newly rejoining are offered out altogether.

【Key Words】oracle bones and shells, rejoinings, categorization

 

Xie Naihe,

A Study of Western Zhou Queen’s Careers Known from Inscriptions on Bronzes   (142)

【Abstract:】The paper takes empresses of Xizhou Dynasty as the object for research, making an over-all study of their deeds recorded in inscriptions on bronzes. It covers politics, economy, military activities, royal rituals and life manners, etc, which is in sharp contract with the image of the women of Zhou Dynasty in archives. The records concerned show that the empresses played an important role in Zhou governments. Their power was closely related not only with the kings of Zhou Dynasty, but also with their concert power division in state affairs. The researches concerned with the empresses are of paramount important to the insightful understanding of their roles in Xizhou governments as well as the social status of Xizhou noble women represented by the empresses.

【Key Words】Xizhou Dynasty, empress, deeds, gocernment