Xi’an tang City-site Archaeological Team , IA , CASS , Recent Archaeological Discoveries to the South of the Hanyuandian Pavilion-site in the Tang Daminggong Palace, Xi’an City-------( 3 )

 

Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Pujiang

County Museum, Excavation on the Neolithic Site at Shangshan in Pujiang County,

Zhejiang -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------( 7 )

Zheng Yunfei and Jiang Leping, Remains of Ancient Rice Unearathed from the Shangshan

Site and Their Significance -------------------------------------------------------------------------(19 )

 

Jining Municipal Research Section of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Rencheng

District Office for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, Jining City, Excavation on

the Zhangshanwa Site in Jining City, Shandong ------------------------------------------------( 26 )

 

Chengdu Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Xindu District

Office for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, Excavation of Eastern Han Cliff Tombs

in Xindu District, Chengdu City ------------------------------------------------------- -----------(36 )

Zhong Liqiang, A Comparative Study of the Late Neolithic Cultures in the Lower Minjiang

River Valley and the Ganjiang-Poyanghu Region -------- --------------------------------------(57)

Zheng Xiaolu, Theories and an Experience on the Chronological Study of the Bronzes from

South China ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (67)

Pan Ling, Cultural Attribution and Date of the Wangong Cemetery -------------------------------(78)

Li Naisheng et al., A Study of the Flat Tiles Unearthed from the Taosi Site ----------------------(87)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Pujiang County

Museum, Excavation on the Neolithic Site at Shangshan in Pujiang County, Zhejiang 

 

KEY WORDS: Zhejiang    Shangshan site    Neolithic Age

ABSTRACT: In 2001, 2004 and 2005—2006, three seasons of excavation were carried out on the Shangshan site in Pujiang County, Zhejiang. In the revealed area of about 1,800 sq m., archaeologists discovered remains of the Neolithic Age to the Tang-Song period and after. The present paper makes an account of the remains of Shangshan culture, the main contents of the site. Among the vestiges are ash-pits and house-foundations, and the objects include stone implements, pottery vessels, and a few bone artifacts. Dating from 10000 to 8500 BP, this is the earliest Neolithic site recorded so far in the lower Yangtze River Valley

 

 

 

Zheng Yunfei and Jiang Leping, Remains of Ancient Rice Unearathed from the Shangshan Site and Their Significance 

 

KEY WORDS: Zhejiang    Shangshan site    Neolithic Age    Origin of rice farming

ABSTRACT: On the Neolithic Shangshan site excavated from 2001, some charcoal containing pottery has been discovered to have rice grain husk as the main tempering material: Not only the potshard surface bears quantities of impressions of rice husk, but also the charcoal fragments mixed in the clay paste in a large amount are formed of incompletely burnt rice grain husk. A phytolithic analysis shows that some potshards contain phytoliths of moving cells from rice leaves. A formal examination of the phytoliths suggests that the rice from the Shangshan site may have belong to primitive cultivated rice with some properties of modern round-grained non-glutinous rice or its tropical variant. The discovery of Shangshan rice is highly valuable to the studies into the origin of rice faring.

 

 

 

Jining Municipal Research Section of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Rencheng

District Office for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, Jining City, Excavation on

the Zhangshanwa Site in Jining City, Shandong

 

KEY WORDS: Jining City, Shandong    Zhangshanwa site    Beixin culture   

             Oracle-bone inscriptions of the Shang period    Eastern Zhou period   

ABSTRACTS: In coordination with construction engineering, a salvaging excavation was carried out in the south of the Zhangshanwa site in Jining City, Shandong, in 1999. In the excavated area of about 400 sq m, archaeologists revealed a Beixin culture well, 11 Shang period ash-pits, and two house-foundations and a tile-coffin burial of the Eastern Zhou. Among the unearthed objects, only a number of pottery utensils belong to the Beixin culture and the Eastern Zhou, while the finds of the Shang period are rather rich, including pottery, bronzes, stone implements, bone and shell artifacts and oracle bones and tortoise shells. An oracle bone bears an engraved mark, which provides important material for studying sculpulimancy and the remains of the Shang culture in the Jining area.

 

 

Chengdu Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Xindu District Office for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, Excavation of Eastern Han Cliff Tombs in Xindu District, Chengdu City 

Eastern Han period

ABSTRACT: In 2002, seven robbed cliff tombs were cleaned out in salvaging excavation at Huzhu Village of Sanhe Town and Liangshui Village of Taixing Town in Xindu District, Chengdu City. These burials are rich in variety as well as in.grave goods, yielding mainly pottery, and also bronzes, ironware and copper coins, of which tomb-figurines account for a large proportion. Especially noteworthy are the valuable pictorial stone coffins from Tombs HM3 and LM1 and the dated literal evidence on “Shi Men Guan 石门关” (Stone Gate Pass) from HM3, which have great value to historical and artistic researches. The tombs go bask to the early to late Eastern Han.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zhong Liqiang, A Comparative Study of the Late Neolithic Cultures in the Lower Minjiang River Valley and the Ganjiang-Poyanghu Region 

 

KEY WORDS: lower Minjiang River valley    Ganjiang-Poyanghu region    Neolithic cultures    Tanshishan culture

ABSTRACT: The late Neolithic cultures in the Minjiang River valley and the Ganjiang-Poyanghu region are two important links in the Neolithic local cultural system of southeastern China. They developed independently and either has its own sequence, though they shared much commonness with each other in the course of prehistoric cultural development. The present paper makes a comparative study of their objects, sums up differences and similarities of   the late Neolithic cultures in the two regions and analyzes the function of their natural environments as well as cultural exchange and spread. The author believes that their difference was due to their disparity in natural geography and cultural setting, and their identity resulted from their common stage attribution and cultural exchange and spread.

 

 

 

Zheng Xiaolu, Theories and an Experience on the Chronological Study of the Bronzes from South China 

 

KEY WORDS: South China    bronzes    chronology    Zhou period   

the Yue people

ABSTRACT: Chronological study constitutes the foundation of various researches on the bronzes from South China and so has great importance. But as the bronzes from South China are distinctly different from those from the Central Plains, there is outstanding divergence of views among their researchers. The present paper, taking the bronzes unearthed from the Zhou period Yue people’s territory in the southeastern China and the region to the south of the Five Ridges as an example, discusses theories on the chronology of South China Bronzes at two levels: individual bronze examination and grouped bronzes analysis. Furthermore, the author studies and compares in detail the Zhou period horse-and-chariot trappings from the Najing-Zhenjiang region, the bronzes and ceramics from Tunxi tombs and the bronze from Nan’an Daying Zhaishan, and on this basis determines their respective dates

 

 

 

Pan Ling, Cultural Attribution and Date of the Wangong Cemetery 

 

KEY WORDS: Wangong cemetery    Hanshu II culture    Xiongnu    Jalainur cemetery

ABSTRACT: Concerning the cultural attribution of the Wangong cemetery and its relationship with the Jalainur cemetery and other remains, there have been discussions in archaeological circles. But previous studies were limited to the comparison of related pottery discovered in China. An analysis of available data recorded at home and abroad indicates that the Wangong cemetery can be dated to the Western Han period and can be assigned mainly to the Hanshu II culture, though it reflects considerable influence from the Xiongnu culture. The Jalainur cemetery contains mainly Xiongnu Culture elements and goes back to the earlier Eastern Han period. The two burial grounds show certain similarities to each other as they have stronger or weaker elements of Xiongnu culture.

 

 

 

Li Naisheng et al., A Study of the Flat Tiles Unearthed from the Taosi Site 

 

KEY WORDS: Taosi site    flat tiles    resistance to breaking    hardness    firing temperature

ABSTRACT: Tests of the flat tiles unearthed from the Taosi site in physical composition, firing temperature, resistance to breaking and water absorptivity and a comparison with physical properties of Qin bricks and tiles, Han bricks and modern brick and tiles suggest that the Taosi flat tiles are made of clay by firing at a temperature of about 1,000^o. Although there exists some difference in their mineral composition, undoubtedly they are well-qualified pottery building material with rather strong resistance to breaking, high hardness and relatively low water absorptivity. These properties have no parallels even among the Qin bricks and Han tiles, which is of great significance to the study of the history of building material.