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Department of Archaeology, Shandong University et al., The Excavation of the Beiqian Site in Jimo City, Shandong in 2007 …………………………………… ( 3 )

Inner Mongolian Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology et al., The Excavation of the Locality C of the Neolithic Cemetery of the Nan Baoligaotu Site in Jarud Banner, Inner Mongolia ………………………………………………………… ( 24 )

Anyang Archaeological Team, IA, CASS and Anyang Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, The Survey and Trial Excavation to the Xijiangcun Site in Anyang County, Henan ………………………………………… ( 38 )

Archaeology Specialty, Department of History, Nanjing University and Committee for Preservation of Ancient Monuments, Fengjie County, The Guijing Cemetery of the Warring-States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties in Fengjie County, Chongqing Municipality ………………………………………………………… ( 51 )

Zhu Yonggang and Ji Ping, On the Cultural Characteristics of the Nan Baoligaotu Cemetery ………………………………………………………………………… ( 67 )

Wang Feng , On the “San Nian Mao Ling (the Third Year, the Director of Mao)” Ge-dagger Ax …………………………………………………………… (73  )

Jiao Nanfeng, The Research on the Location Selection of the Imperial Mausoleums of the Western Han Dynasty ………………………………………………………… ( 76 )

Liu Kefu (Kryukov, Michael V.), On the Date of Phase IV of the Remains in Yinxu Site ………………………………………………………………………………… ( 83 )

Lan Wanli et al., The Exploration and Practices of the Abdominal Soil Paleoparasitology Research Method …………………………………………… ( 87 )

 

 

 

The Excavation of the Beiqian Site in Jimo City, Shandong in 2007

KEYWORDS: Shandong    Beiqian Site    Zhou Dynasty    Dawenkou Culture

ABSTRACT: In 2007, Department of Archaeology, Shandong University and other institutions conducted the first excavation to Beiqian Site, from which rich remains and relics of the Neolithic Age and Zhou Dynasty were recovered. The remains of the Neolithic Age mostly belonged to the late Beixin Culture and early Dawenkou Culture; besides of the numerous house foundations and postholes, the specially noticeable discovery is a number of secondary burials, which is a burial type with clear temporal characteristics found for the first time and in such a density within a single site in Shandong Peninsula. This discovery has high academic value and important academic meanings for the researches on the settlement patterns, human organization types, social development stages and society characteristics at that time in this region. The remains of the Zhou Dynasty are mainly burials, ash pits and surrounding ditches, from which large amounts of shellfish remains and potsherds were unearthed.

 

The Excavation of the Locality C of the Neolithic Cemetery of the Nan Baoligaotu Site in Jarud Banner, Inner Mongolia

KEYWORDS: Inner Mongolia    Jarud Banner    Locality C of the Cemetery of the Nan Baoligaotu Site    Late Neolithic Age    Nan Baoligaotu Type

ABSTRACT: In 2008, the Locality C of the Neolithic Cemetery of the Nan Baoligaotu Site in Jarud Banner, Inner Mongolia was excavated. The excavation recovered 37 tombs, most of which were rectangular vertical shaft pit graves with curved corners in orientations between 125 to 145 degrees. Most of the tombs were single burials and the occupants were in extended supine position. The grave goods are mostly potteries, the main types of which were cylindrical jars, pots, short-necked jars, bowls and zun-vessels, and the major assemblage was cylindrical jar and pot. In addition, stone and bone implements were also unearthed, as well as ornaments made of stone, jade, cowries and shells. These burials were in the same types and funeral customs, showing that they belonged to the same cultural type. This type is a new-found one absorbing the elements of many archaeological cultures in the nearby areas based on its own cultural features and can be temporarily named “Nan Baoligaotu Type”, the date of which is roughly the late Neolithic Age.

 

The Survey and Trial Excavation to the Xijiangcun Site in Anyang County, Henan

KEYWORDS: Henan    Anyang County    Xijiangcun Site    Xiaqiyuan Culture    Shang Culture

ABSTRACT: In 2006, a rescue excavation and an archaeological survey are conducted to Xijiangcun Site in Anyang County, Henan. The excavation uncovered an area of 80 sq m, the remains discovered from which were that of Xiaqiyuan Culture and Shang Culture in Huanbei City Period. The remains of Xiaqiyuan Culture were 14 ash pits, the artifacts unearthed from which included potteries, stone and bone implements, mainly potteries. The remains of Shang Culture in Huanbei City Period were two ash pits, the artifacts unearthed from which were only potteries. The remains of Xiaqiyuan Culture found in Xijiangcun Site could be divided into two phases and three stages. The excavation to this site provided important clues for the research on the relationship between the Shang Culture in Huanbei City Period and Xiaqiyuan Culture in the Huan River Valley.

 

The Guijing Cemetery of the Warring-States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties in Fengjie County, Chongqing Municipality

KEYWORDS: Chongqing    Fengjie    Cemeteries    Late Warring-States Period    Han Dynasty

ABSTRACT: In the autumn 2005, Archaeology Specialty of Department of History, Nanjing University excavated the Guijing Cemetery in Fengjie County, Chongqing Municipality. The excavation revealed six earthen pit tombs and one brick-chamber tomb. Five of the earthen pit tombs were densely clustered together, the dates of which were from the late Warring-States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty; from them, willow leaf-shaped bronze swords of Ba Style and the pottery ding-tripods and pots and bronze huang-semicircular pendants of Chu Style were unearthed, showing the features of the infusion of Ba and Chu Styles and the Chu Culture as the mainstream. The two sets of ding-tripod legs, each of which represented seven pottery ding-tripods, were all of the Chu Style. Iron coffin nails were found in two earthen pit tombs. From the brick-chamber tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty, pottery figurines, basin and rarely-seen money tree base were unearthed. This excavation is significantly meaningful for the research on the evolution of the regional cultures in Chongqing area.

 

On the Cultural Characteristics of the Nan Baoligaotu Cemetery

KEYWORDS: Nan Baoligaotu Cemetery    Cultural Characteristics    Cultural Elements    Pluralistic Integration

ABSTRACT: The Nan Baoligaotu Cemetery contains not only the cultural elements of Xiaoheyan Culture, Pianbaozi Culture and other nearby cultures but also that of the northern cultures whose natures have not been confirmed, as well as the pottery assemblages with clear local characteristics. However, it is neither a local conversion of Xiaoheyan Culture nor the western diffusion of Pianbaozi Culture but an integration of the elements of the multiple cultures. The most obvious characteristics of Nan Baoligaotu Cemetery is the pluralistic integration; its unique cultural nature is different from all known archaeological cultures and represents a new-found Neolithic culture which could be temporarily named “Nan Baoligaotu Type.”

 

On the “San Nian Mao Ling (the Third Year, the Director of Mao)” Ge-dagger Ax

KEYWORDS: Bronze Ge-dagger-Axes    Inscriptions    Geographical Locations    Dates

ABSTRACT: Analyzed from the features of the inscriptions, the new discovered ge-dagger ax with inscription “San Nian Mao Ling (the Third Year, the Director of Mao)” is a weapon cast in the Han or Wei States of the Three-Jin area in the Warring-States Period, and argued that the Mao should be a place in the Wei State, from which it is inferred that the “third year” would be 225 BC.

 

The Research on the Location Selection of the Imperial Mausoleums of the Western Han Dynasty

KEYWORDS: Imperial Mausoleums of the Western Han Dynasty    Location Selection Traditions    Cemetery Selection Customs    Geomancy Thoughts

ABSTRACT: The arrangement of the imperial mausoleums of the Western Han Dynasty presented to us today is made by the accidental factors in the necessity. The “necessity” is that the selection of the locations of the imperial mausoleums of the Western Han Dynasty followed the traditional cemetery selection customs and was restricted by the geomantic superstitions and the desire of consolidation of the state power. The “accidental factors” are the personal likes and dislikes of each emperor, which were sometimes playing a decisive role. The distribution of the imperial mausoleums of the Western Han Dynasty would rather be explained as a paragon of the integration of the historic traditions, ideologies, topography, political demands and the emperors’ personal likes and dislikes than be stereotyped as a result of matching the Zhao-Mu system of the aristocrat burials in the past.

 

On the Date of Phase IV of the Remains in Yinxu Site

KEYWORDS: King Wu's Conquest of Yin    Round Burial Pit at Hougang    Typological Index of Bronze Ding-tripods    Paleography of Early Zhou Bronze Inscriptions

ABSTRACT: After the conquest of Yin by King Wu of the Western Zhou, the adherents of the destroyed Yin (Shang) were still living in present-day Xiaotun Village, Anyang, therefore there must have been the remains of the early Western Zhou Dynasty in Yinxu Site. Referring to his article on the round burial pit at Hougang (HGH10) published 50 years ago, the author undertakes analysis of both the shape of the unearthed bronze vessels and paleographic characteristics of their inscriptions. The results of his study provide new evidences in favor of the viewpoint that the latest strata of Yinxu Site belonged to the Early Western Zhou period, and the round burial pit at Hougang and the tomb M1713 belonged to the reign of King Cheng of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

 

The Exploration and Practices of the Abdominal Soil Paleoparasitology Research Method

KEYWORDS: Paleoparasitology    Abdominal Soil    Methodological Explorations    Jiahu Site    Xipo Site    Xingtian Site

ABSTRACT: Paleoparasitology rose in the recent thirty years as a sub-discipline of Archaeometry. In China, there is a kind of paleoparasitological material far more abundant than coprolite, latrine soil, and mummy as major materials of paleoparasitolgy abroad, which is abdominal soil. The researches on it are seldom reported in international paleoparasitology and its recovery methods of parasite eggs still need to improve. In this paper, we chose abdominal soil samples collected from three sites for paleoparasitological research. A technology of recovering parasite eggs from abdominal soil is set up, and the messages fetched with this technology about ancient human health, living pattern and epidemiological issues are discussed.