Nanjing Museum and Zhenjiang Museum, The Second Excavation in the

Mounded Tomb Cemetery at Sijiaodun in Dantu City, Jiangsu--------------------( 3 )

Guizhou Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology et al., Eastern

Zhou Cemetery at Hongyingpan in Weining County, Guizhou --------------------(7 )

Guangxi Hepu County Museum, Excavation of Han Tombs at Muzhuling in

Hepu County, Guangxi ---------------------------------------------------------------(19)

Jilin Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, No. 1 Building

Foundation of the Jin Period at Yongsheng in Dunhua City, Jilin ----------------(39 )

Chen Hongbo, Distribution of Settlements and Environmental Exchanges in the

Ancient Shandong-Hean-Anhui Cultural Origin ------------------------------------(48 )

Cai Yunzhang and An Yawei, On the Pictures, Divination Symbols and Inscription

On a Western Zhou Pottery Gui Food Container-------------------------------------(61)

Shen Yunyan, Restudy of Tile-ends of the Yan State ------------------------------------(67)

Chen Xingcan and Ma Sizhong, On Li Chi and J. G. Andersson in the Light

of Bernhard Karlgren’s Three Letters to Li ------------------------------------------(75)

Jiang Bo, Book Review: Theses on Chinese and Japanese Archaeology and

Ancient Japanese History ------------------------------------------------------------( 88 )

 

 

Nanjing Museum and Zhenjiang Museum, The Second Excavation in the Mounded Tomb Cemetery at Sijiaodun in Dantu City, Jiangsu

 

KEY WORDS: Jiangsu    mounted tombs at Sijiaodun    Zhou period

ABSTRACT: The Sijiaodu mounted tomb cemetery is a group of small-sized graves one km southwest of Dantu Township, of which two (numbered D2 and D5) were excavated in 1991. Under the mound of D2 a burial (D2M1) was found to contain pottery li tripods, jars, basins, bowls and jugs and to belong to the Zhou period as the unearthed funeral objects show. Under the mound of D5, two burials (D5M1 and D5M2) were revealed. The former yielded pottery cups and bronze ge dagger-axes spear heads and swords, which suggest that the burial is datable to the late Spring-and-Autumn period. The latter contain pottery li and proto-porcelain dou stemmed vessels and can be dated to the later early Western Zhou.    

 

 

Guizhou Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology et al., Eastern Zhou Cemetery at Hongyingpan in Weining County, Guizhou  

 

KEY WORDS: Guizhou    Hongyingpan cemetery    rectangular earthen-pit tombs    Eastern Zhou period

ABSTRACT: In 2004, the Guizhou Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other institutions carried out excavation in the Hongyingpan cemetery within Weining County. In the revealed area of nearly 400 sq m, they excavated 26 tombs, which are all small-sized rectangular earthen-pit graves with shallow, long narrow tomb pits, varied in direction and without traces of superimposition and intrusion. The human skeletons lie in an extended supine position and in a poor condition; the coffins can be discerned only from their remains; and funeral objects are few, only one or two pieces at the most (pottery, bronze weapons and ornaments), or even absent. Judged by the features of the unearthed articles, the cemetery can be assigned to the time from the late Spring-and-Autumn period to the early ad mid Warring States period.      

 

 

Guangxi Hepu County Museum, Excavation of Han Tombs at Muzhuling in Hepu County, Guangxi

 

KEY WORDS: Guainxi   Muzhuling    earthen-pit tombs    brick-and-stone

              tombs    late Western Han to later Eastern Han period 

ABSTRACT: In 1990 to 1996, the Guangxi Hepu County Museum carried out a salvaging excavation of ten Han period tombs at Muzhuling. These burials are mound-covered in a few cases, preserved in fairly a good condition for one half and divided into two types: wooden-chambered earthen-pit rectangular graves and brick-and-stone ones consisting of a tomb chamber and a passage each. The coffins and human skeletons are all rotten, and the funeral objects include mainly pottery, and also bronzes, ironware, mirrors, coins, seals and ornaments. The bronzes bear rich designs; the bronze lamps and pottery house models are unique in form and excellent in workmanship; and the pottery toilet models have rare counterparts among previous finds. Based on the features of the unearthed grave goods, especially the coins, seals and lamps, the tombs can be dated to the late Western Han to later Eastern Han period. The cemetery belonged to a Huang family.      

 

 

Jilin Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, No. 1 Building

Foundation of the Jin Period at Yongsheng in Dunhua City, Jilin

 

KEY WORDS: Jilin Province   Yongsheng site   building platform

house foundations   Jin Dynasty

ABSTRACT: In 2002, the Jilin Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Research Center for Chinese Borderland Archaeology of Jilin University excavated the No.1 building foundation on the Yongsheng site in Dunhua City, Jilin Province. This is the remains of a surface building that consist of a platform and several house foundations. The platform is build of earth and measures 43.7m in length from the west to the east and 21m in width from the north to the south, and is slightly raised from the ground. The house is in the north of the platform, where the two excavated house-foundations lie side-by-side in the west and middle. They face to the south and are similar in size and structure, with kang (heatable brick beds) furnished on the western, northern and eastern sides of the interior. Most of the unearthed objects are pottery building-material, including tiles, tile-ends, bricks and sculptured ornaments. Among the other finds are pottery and porcelain vessels, iron implements, weapons, horse and chariot trappings, articles of daily use, and copper coins of the Northern Song and Jin dynasties. The site must have been a Buddhist building complex of the late Jin period.

 

Chen Hongbo, Distribution of Settlements and Environmental Exchanges in the

Ancient Shandong-Henan-Anhui Cultural Region 

 

KEY WORDS: Shandong-Henan-Anhui cultural region   environmental archaeology    distribution of settlements       the second lake and swamp zone

ABSTRACT: The Shandong-Henan-Anhui cultural region was a relatively isolated area in prehistoric times. Geologically it was the “second lake and swamp zone” on the ancient alluvial fan of Yellow River, which exerted crucial effects upon the distributions of prehistoric settlements as well as their culture and economy. From the early or middle Neolithic Age to the Yueshi Culture period, the   distribution of settlements featured that the nuclear district was gradually transferred from the south to the north, and every period seems to have undergone a series of changing courses in distribution of areas suitable for settlement and those supplying living resources—lakes, swamps and other water areas.

 

 

Cai Yunzhang and An Yawei, On the Picture, Divination Symbols and Inscription on a Western Zhou Pottery Gui Food Container

 

KEY WORDS: pottery gui food container    divination symbols recorded in the Book of Changes    picture of hunting    pottery inscription

ABSTRACT: The pottery gui food container of late Western Zhou period unearthed from a late Western Zhou tomb at the eastern railway station of Luoyang bears on the inner wall and bottom an incised picture, divination symbols and characters, which are peculiar in composition and rare among archaeological finds. The pottery gui is a ritual vessel for sacrificial offerings. The picture consists of a field carriage, its driver, a hunter and beasts, showing a vivid scene of hunting. Behind the picture are five groups of divination symbols, which can be respectively translated into the diagrams “xun巽,” “jian蹇,” “jiji既济,” “kui暌”and “wuwan无妄”recorded in the Book of Changes. Below the last diagram and on the vessel bottom are the characters “yu雨” and “wu五.” The meanings of these incisions are all corresponding to the use of the vessel, and the incisions must have been a product of the custom of “making artifacts with related scenes depictes.”

 

 

Shen Yunyan, Restudy of Tile-ends of the Yan State 

 

KEY WORDS: Yan State territory    tile-ends    animal mask design  

              “山”-shaped design

ABSTRACT: Apart from the numerous samples unearthed from the site of Yan Lower Capital in Hebei Yixian County, Yan State tile-ends have been discovered in all parts of the Yan State territory that covered present-day Beijing, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia and Tianjin. Previously their studies were roughly concentrated on the Yan Lower Capital site. In the present paper, the author makes a preliminary research on the tile-ends from other localities and on their relationship with their counterparts from contemporary sites in neighboring areas. It is pointed out that Yan tile-ends are decorated mainly with various animal mask and “山”-shaped designs and show a tendency of simplification as time went on. They were used on palaces as well as on important buildings of pivotal places.

 

 

Chen Xingcan and Ma Sizhong, On Li Chi and J. G. Andersson in the Light of Bernhard Karlgren’s Three Letters to Li

 

KEY WORDS: Li Chi    J. G. Andersson    Neolithic culture    the Yin Ruins at Anyang    prehistoric culture

ABSTRACT: J. G. Andersson was a discoverer of the Neolithic culture in North China, represented by the Yangshao site, whereas Li Chi, an excavator and archaeological team director of the Bronze Age culture in China, represented by the Yin Ruins at Anyang. The former turned to archaeology from geology, while the later did so from anthropology. The former made his name for his discovery and study of prehistoric Chinese culture; the latter, for his archaeological researches on the Yin Ruins at Anyang. The two scholars were connected by the problems of prehistoric Chinese culture and its relationship with historical culture, though they differed by one generation in age and also had disparity in training. The three letters from Bernhard Karlgren to Li Chi in 1937, which are preserved in the collection of the Oriental Museum, Sweden, inform us about the relations between the two great scholars and their viewpoints on the origin of prehistoric Chinese culture and demonstrate their lenient inner world and respectable noble quality.