郑州大河村遗址发掘报告

EXCAVATION OF A NEOLITHIC SITE IN DAHE VILLAGE NEAR ZHENGZHOU

一遗址位置及发掘情况河南省郑州地区,据初步统计,仅新石器时代遗址发现二十五处,大部分分布在郑州的西、南两面的丘陵地带和荥阳县境内。郑州的东北郊,过去调查工作做得比较少,目前只发现两处遗址。大河村遗址就是其中之一,它位于郑州市的东北郊,柳林公社大河村西南1公里的漫坡土冈上,当地称"花冈"。南距市区6公里,北距贾鲁河2.5公里,距黄河7.5公里。

Between October 1972 and December 1975 a total area of 1,500 square meters were excavated in seven seasons at a Neolithic site in Dahe village, six kilometers northeast of the city Zhengzhou. Because of a high water table, all the excavations were not very thorough. A total of 22 house foundations, 101 cellars, 44 tombs and 62 funerary urns are discovered. All of these have yielded a total of 1,500 pieces of complete and restorable vessels and objects of pottery, stone, bone, shell and jade.According to the data collected so far from the excavations, the Neolithic culture of Dahe village site may be assigned to six different stages. The first three stages correspond to the middle, middle-late and late periods of Yangshao culture; the fourth stage belongs to the transition from Yangshao culture to Lungshan culture; the fifth and sixth stages belong to the early and late period of Lungshan culture. Each of the six stages links and follows one after another.Among the cultural remains from the third stae, some relics bearing the characteristics of Tawenkou culture in Shandong province are discovered. Apart from such relics with the Dawenkou elements that are found among those from the fourth stage, some more relics of Chuchialing culture in Hubei province are also unearthed. All this has provided important stratigraphical relations and material objects for the study of relations between the Yangshao and Lungshan cultures in China's central plain and other cultures along the lower reaches of Huanghe River and Changjiang River valley.