徐州富庶街明代遗址的发掘

EXCAVATION OF THE MING PERIOD FUSHUJIE SITE IN XUZHOU

徐州市富庶街明代遗址位于市中心彭城广场以北，东到彭城北路，西到中山北路，北到富庶街，占地9000多平方米(图一)。2000年4月下旬，徐州国际商厦在该遗址范围内进行施工中于地下4．5米处发现大量的砖、石建筑遗存，局部已遭破坏。徐州市文物管理委员会、

In May to September 2000, the Xuzhou Museum carried out a rescuing excavation on the Fushujie site to the north of the Pengcheng Plaza in downtown Xuzhou city. The exposed area covers 3100 sq m. The cultural remains discovered are overlaid by 2 m thick slit. They include house vestiges, streets, wells, and ash-pits. Among them the house vestiges are the largest in area, comprising more than 50 bays. In the eastern and western parts, two group of building complexes are rather good in condition and clear in layout. The western is larger, consisting of house foundations, patios, passageways, and yards. Judging from its size and layout, it might have been a government office, while the eastern one must be left over from folk dwellings or workshops. More than 300 roughly complete artifacts and about 20,000 ceramic sherds were unearthed. The artifacts fall into bronze, iron, tin, porcelain, pottery, bamboo, wood, stone, bone, and antler articles. The porcelain is predominant in amount, and covers all wares in then China. The unearthed objects, different in type and usage, involve all aspects of people's daily life. Base on the analysis of the discovered relics and related historical records, the Fushujie site was destroyed by floods of the Yellow River in the late Ming period. Its final limiting point was the fourth year of Tianqi reign, late Ming Dynasty(AD 1624). The large-scale archaeological excavation has great significance to understanding the urban construction and water system of Ming and Qing Xuzhou. The artifacts for daily use discovered in great quantities are closer to the then people's life than those from Ming royal mausoleums, and have special value to researching into the city architecture, society and economy of the Ming period. Thus the work laid a good foundation for furthering city archaeology in Xuzhou.