河南荥阳市官庄遗址西区发掘简报

The Excavation of the West Zone of Guanzhuang Site in Xingyang City, Henan

荥阳官庄遗址位于河南省荥阳市高村乡官庄村西，地处平原地带，索须河从遗址南部自西向东流过。遗址地势平坦，中部比周围稍高，面积超过100万平方米（图一）。

In 2010, Archaeology Department of Zhengzhou University conducted survey and excavation to Guanzhuang Site in Xingyang City, Henan. The revealed remains in the excavation were ash pits, burials, pottery kilns, etc. The ash pits were in round, oval, rectangular and irregular plans, the burials were all vertical shaft pit tombs and the pottery kilns were all in hoof-shaped plan. The unearthed artifacts included potteries, bronzes and implements made of stone, bone and shell, etc. The potteries were//-cauldrons, basins, dou-stemmed bowls, jars, yu-basins, three-legged plates, jugs, vessel lids, zeng-steamers, spindle whorls, etc.; the stone implements were gui-scepters, bi-discs, chisels and net weights, the bone implements were awls and hairpins, the shell implements were sickles and knives, and the bronzes were arrowheads, swords, hooks, etc. The unearthed potteries showed that the using of Guanzhuang Site lasted from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid Spring-and-Autumn Period, since when it was gradually abandoned. The excavation and coring data of the East Zone of Guanzhuang Site hinted that this site would have been a city site with rather large size.