河南荥阳娘娘寨城址西周墓葬发掘简报

Excavation of Western Zhou Tombs in Niangniangzhai,Henan

2004年,在荥阳市西北发现一座两周时期的城址,分为内城和外城,面积近100万平方米。外城以西为该城址的墓地,巳发现墓葬近500座。已发掘的西周时期19座墓葬,均为小型长方形竖穴土坑墓,部分有殉狗的腰坑。随葬器物普遍较少,主要有陶鬲、豆、罐等。唯一座墓葬(M13)随葬器物较多,有玉璜、玦、冲牙及玛瑙串珠等。娘娘寨城址是郑州地区迄今能够确认的首座西周时期城址,19座墓葬的时代从西周早期延续至西周晚期,为研究中原地区西周时期的文化、族属等提供了重要资料。

In the year 2004, Archaeologists discovered a city site of Zhou Dynasty in the northwest of Xingyang City, Henan Province. The site, which is composed of an outer city and an inner city, occupies an area nearly 1,000,000 m2. In west of the outer city, there is the cemetery of the city, about 500 tombs were discovered. 19 tombs of Western Zhou were unearthed. They are all small-sized rectangular vertical earth-pit tombs; some of them have waist-pits with sacrificial dogs. Most of the tombs contain only a few burial ob- jects, mainly pottery, such as Li, Dou and jars. Burial objects is relative abundant in tomb M13. Jade pendants, agate beads, and other objects were found in it. Date of these 19 tombs is between early and late time of Western Zhou. This site is, to date, the first recognizable city site of Western Zhou in Zhengzhou area. And it provides important information to study culture and nation of Western Zhou in the central plains.