Sichuan Archaeological Team, IA, CASS, et al., Excavation on the Qinglong-cun Site in Pengzhou, Sichuan -----------------------------------------(3 )

Linzi District Bureau of Cultural Relics, Zibo City, Shandong, Tombs 4 and 5 of the Warring States Period at Guojia Village in Linzi District, Zibo City, Shandong -----------------------------------------------------------------------------(11) 

Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Huaibei Minicipal Museum, Excavation of Tombs 1 and 2 of the Eastern Han Period at Lilou in Huaibei City, Anhuai ----------------------------------------------------( 22 )

Wang Yintian et al., Excavation of Liao Period Tombs in Datong City, Shanxi -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------( 34 )

Pei Anping, A Study of the Grouping Pattern of Prehistoric Settlements ---------------------------------------------------( 45 )

Wang Qing, The Bronze Short-swords of Northeast Chinese System Unearthed from Shandong and Their Related Problems -----------------------------------( 57 )

Lian Shaoming, Astrological Book on the Inscribed Slips of the Han Period from Yinqueshan --------------------------------------------------------------( 62 )

Wang Zhongshu, On the Problem of Who Has Been Buried in the Large-sized Hashihaka

Mounded Tomb in Japan: Himiko or Toyo? ---------------- ----------------( 68 )

Zhang Xuelian et al., Establishment and Perfection of the Archaeological Chronological Sequences of the Xinzhai, Erlitou and Erligang Cultures -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------(74)

 

 

 

 

 

 

                       

Sichuan Archaeological Team, IA, CASS, et al., Excavation on the Qinglong-cun Site in Pengzhou, Sichuan

KEY WORDS: Pengzhou City, Sichuan    Qinglong-cun site    Zhuwa Street    early Western Zhou period

ABSTRACT: In 1987 to 1988, the Sichuan Archaeological Team, IA, CASS, and other institutions carried out excavation on the Qinglong-cun site in Pengzhou City, Sichuan.They revealed pottery shards and burnt clay deposits of the Western Zhou period and some Han period remains superimposed on the Western Zhou layers. The former belong to the early Western Zhou, and the burnt clay deposits reflect that certain important buildings might have existed on the site. Not far away from there is the previously discovered Zhuwa Street bronze hoard. The excavation at Qinglong-cun confirmed the date of the hoard.

 

 

 

Linzi District Bureau of Cultural Relics, Zibo City, Shandong, Tombs 4 and 5 of the Warring States Period at Guojia Village in Linzi District, Zibo City, Shandong

KEY WORDS: Shandong Guojia Village, Linzi    couple burials in side-by-side pits    Warring States period

ABSTRACT: In December 2004 to May 2005, the Linzi District Bureau of Cultural Relics carried out a salvaging excavation to explore six large-sized tombs in coordination with the construction of dwelling houses to the southwest of Guojia Village. Of these graves M4 and M6 are built side by side and face to the same direction, either a “甲”-shaped earthen pit furnished with a wooden chamber and filled with stones, which must have been a couple’s joint burials. Round the chamber are wide second-tier platforms, on which two accompanying burials and an objects burial pits were discovered in each case, and bronzes and ritual pottery vessels were unearthed from them. The tomb form and the combination of funeral objects suggest that the two graves go back to the earlier late Warring States period, and their owners must have belonged to the “shi士”–rank aristocracy of the Qi State

 

 

 

Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Huaibei Minicipal Museum, Excavation of Tombs 1 and 2 of the Eastern Han Period at Lilou in Huaibei City, Anhuai

KEY WORDS: Huaibei City, Anhui     Lilou site    multi-room brick tomb     brick-and-stone tomb    the mid and late Eastern Han period

ABSTRACT: In January 2005, the Auhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Huaibei Municipal Museum excavated Tombs 1 and 2 of the Han period at Lilou in Huaibei City, Anhui. M1 is a large-sized multi-room brick grave and consists of a sloping passage, a corridor, an anterior yard, side rooms, an anterior room and a rear room. It yielded glazed and glaze-less potteries, bronzes, ironware and plates of a jade shroud sawn with copper wine, numbering more than 30 pieces/sets, with the glazed pottery coming first in amount. M2 is a brick-and-stone tomb consisting of a sloping passage, a corridor, an anterior room and a rear one, and containing above 20 glazed and glaze-less pottery and bronze objects. Judged by the tomb form and grave goods, the two burials can be dated to the mid and late Eastern Han period.

 

 

 

Wang Yintian et al., Excavation of Liao Period Tombs in Datong City, Shanxi

KEY WORDS: Datong city,Shanxi    Liao period    mural tombs    ancient buildings

ABSTRACT: In the suburbs of Datong City, archaeological excavation revealed five tombs of the Liao period: three at Nanguan, one at Zhoujiadian and one at Wufa-cun. These graves contain a small number of funeral objects. The main remains in them are murals. Of them those in the Zhoujiadian tomb depict in colors door deities, the 12 symbolic animals associated with a 12-year cycle, scenes of receiving wealth, lamp stands and maids, doors and windows, and maids standing at doors. They decorate the carved-brick members in imitation of timber structures, and constitute an example of architectural evolution in the Tang-Song period. The murals in the Wufa-cun tomb are remains of the later early Liao period; among them the paintings of livestock reflect vividly farming and animal husbandry economy in Liao period Datong. Tomb M2 at Nanguan represents the transitional form of mural tombs at the turn from their early to the late phase. In artistic style, the tomb murals of Liao period Datong embody the influence of the Qidan culture from the north and that from the Central Plains culture. With these exterior elements amalgamated into the local culture, a uique art was developed in the Datong area in the Song and Liao period.   

 

 

 

Pei Anping, A Study of the Grouping Pattern of Prehistoric Settlements

KEY WORDS: settlement   grouping   settlement group     union of settlement groups

ABSTRACT: The present paper deals with the organizing form of settlements that represents their interrelationship and the evolution of this organizing form, with the priority given to researching into the basic pattern of settlement grouping and its origination and development courses. The author discovers that this basic pattern had all along been the settlement group and the union of settlement groups from 10000 BP. It originated from man’s living in groups and functioned as the foundation of the unification of settlement society and the development of region-based relationship between settlements in prehistoric times. Studies of the settlement grouping form are helpful not only to understanding the basic nature of a settlement group, but also to revealing the interrelationship within a group of settlements.

 

 

 

Wang Qing, The Bronze Short-swords of Northeast Chinese System Unearthed from Shandong and Their Related Problems

KEY WORDS: Shandong    Northeast Chinese system    bronze short-swords    trade

ABSTRACT: So far, two bronze short-swords of Northeast Chinese system and three similar weapons have been discovered in Shandong Province. They go back to the time from the late Spring-and-Autumn to the late Warring States period. All of them are unearthed from the territory of the then Qi State, which may have been concerned with the large-scale eastward and southward expansion of the state. Of these finds two must have been directly imported from eastern Liaoning, and the other three are cast in the Qi State in imitation of short swords of the Northeast Chinese system. This reflects the relations between the Qi State and the northeastern region. Thus it made up the shortage of literal records in this aspect to a certain extent.

 

Wang Zhongshu, On the Problem of Who Has Been Buried in the Large-sized Hashihaka

Mounded Tomb in Japan: Himiko or Toyo? 

KEY WORDS: mounded tomb    square-front round-back mounded tomb

Hashihaka    Yamatai State    Himiko    Toyo

ABSTRACT: The Hashihaka Mounded Tomb is located in the southeastern Nara Basin. It was the earliest standardized square-front round-back mounded tomb across ancient Japan. In recent some dozen years, Japanese scholars moved up the date of its building to the late or even mid third century BC, and some researchers inferred its owner to be the queen Himiko of the Yamatai State. Based on archaeological data with literal records combined, the author of the present paper affirms that the tomb occupant is not queen Himiko but her successor queen Toyo.

 

 

 

Zhang Xuelian et al., Establishment and Improvement of the Archaeological Chronological Sequences of the Xinzhai, Erlitou and Erligang Cultures

KEY WORDS: Xinzhan    Erlitou    Erligang    Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology project     ¹⁴C dating

ABSTRACT: The ¹⁴C chronological frame for Xia-Shang-Zhou period established in the Xia-Shang-Zhou chronology project by means of ¹⁴C dating in combination with archaeological researches represents the highest level of ¹⁴C dating in China. Since the finishing of the project, based on deep-going archaeological studies and the application of serial sampling, the new advances of relevant studies have made the chronological frame further improved and supplemented. The researches carried out since the publication of the Concise Edition of the chronology project include the dating and study of the Luodamiao-Erligang series of the Shang city-site at Zhengzhou, the late Longshan culture to the Xinzhan phase series and some samples from the Erlitou site. As a result, the chronological sequence from the Xinzhai through the Erlitou to the Erligang culture became relatively specific and clear.