内蒙古克什克腾旗喜鹊沟遗址发掘简报

The Excavation of the Xiquegou Site in Hexigten Banner,Inner Mongolia

2011年6、7月,对内蒙古克什克腾旗喜鹊沟铜矿遗址进行了调查和发掘。在遗址南部发掘区,清理了房址2座、矿坑1处。出土遗物中陶器以高领、鼓腹、领部饰附加堆纹的鬲残片为主,石器中有大量采矿使用的锤及少量加工矿石的研磨器。该遗址的年代大致相当于晚商时期,是中国北方地区迄今所见年代最早的铜矿遗址。

In June 2011, Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology of Jilin University and Inner Mongolian Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology organized a survey and excavation project at Xiquegou Copper Mining Site in Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia. On the ground surface of the site, six mining shafts, two stone walls and one stone-built architecture were discovered. Two houses and one mining pit have been excavated. The unearthed artifacts mainly consist of high neck and round belly pottery/i-cauldrons, most of them having a decor of attached bands parallel to the rim. The stone implement assemblage is mainly composed of large quantity of stone hammers used for mining and small quantity of stone grinding tools used for processing the ore. This site can be roughly dated in the late Shang Dynasty, which is the earliest copper mining site discovered to date in northern China.