殷墟晚商墓随葬牲腿现象的相关问题再探讨

Rethinking of the Relevant Issues on the Ritual Use of Animal Legs in the Funeral Phenomenon at Yin Ruins During the Late Shang

商代晚期的商文化墓葬中常发现随葬动物腿骨的现象,代表了晚商时期商人在墓葬中随葬牲腿的葬俗。以往的研究缺乏动物考古的专业鉴定、观察和分析,对于动物腿骨的具体骨骼、部位、方位、用牲年龄等丰富信息揭示不够。本文以殷墟孝民屯遗址晚商墓葬中随葬动物的动物考古学鉴定资料为主,结合殷墟遗址以往未经动物考古学者鉴定的其他地点墓葬的简报与田野考古报道资料,继续探讨一些以往学者未涉及、关注的问题,以期对殷墟遗址晚商墓葬中随葬牲腿习俗的具体内容、特点及其反映的相关葬俗、礼仪制度及其他相关问题的研究有所补充和推进。

the founding of animal leg bones in the late Shang Burials represented the custom of using animal leg as burial goods of the Shang people.Previous study usually lack the information about the specified bone element and portion,age etc.based on the zooarchaeological identification.observation and analysis.This paper integrate the zooarchaeological identification and analysis of animal bones found in late Shang burials at Xiaomintun,Yinxu by the author and the published archaeological report at other burial at Yinxu and other late Shang sites to explore some issues not discussed by previous related research,which aimed to promote the study toward more detailed research on the specified characteristic ritual context and related social archaeology of the ritual use of animal legs in late Shang burials.