苏州木渎古城2011--2014年考古报告

THE EXCAVATION OF THE MUDU CITY SITE OF THE SPRING-AND-AUTUMN PERIOD IN SUZHOU CITY

苏州木渎古城考古项目是中国社会科学院考古研究所与苏州市考古研究所为了解苏州木渎古城及其周边古城址、墓葬等遗址群的时代、布局、性质和人地关系等一系列学术问题，联合开展的综合考古调查、发掘与研究项目。这项工作始于2010年，当年即发现木渎古城，并判定其为具有都邑性质的大型城址。木渎古城的发现为太湖及长江下游地区两周考古学文化及历史研究提供了新的资料，具有较高的学术价值和现实意义。

In the years 2011 through 2015,the joint Mudu Ancient City archaeological team conducted a series of archaeological fieldwork to the Mudu Ancient City Site for the solution of the urgent academic problems.At Wufeng Locality,the discoveries of the internal water system of the city and the inner moat constructed the basic planning framework;the more important is the confirmation that the city wall of the Mudu Ancient City at the Wufeng section was directly engaged to the mountain bodies on its both sides and the realization based on which that the walls of the entire city site were only built at the important passages through the mountains and the fortification system was built relying on the mountains surrounding the site.The fieldwork at Hefeng Locality revealed a small-sized city site in a rectangular plan with curved corners,the length of which from north to south was about 500 m and the width from east to west,about 450 m,covering an area of about 22 ha and surrounded by a moat on the outside.The M80,a burial of the early Spring-and-Autumn Period,intruded into the wall of this small city site;referring to the artifacts unearthed in the city wall,the date of the construction of the Hefeng small city was confirmed to be from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Spring-and-Autumn Period.On the Hefeng small city site,some burials from the Eastern Zhou Period to the Western Han Dynasty were recovered,showing that this small city site has been used for a rather long time.Archaeological fieldwork was also conducted in the peripheral areas of the Mudu Ancient City Site;on the bank of Lake Tai to its south,the Qianniansi small city site of the Warring-States Period was found,which held the important passage from the Mudu Ancient City to the Lake Tai.Some burials of the Warring-States Period to the Western Han Dynasty were recovered at Shanshan Locality to the northwest of the Mudu Ancient City Site.The series of archaeological fieldwork enriched the understandings to the Mudu Ancient City Site from multiple aspects and revealed the complicated development and evolution processes of the Mudu Ancient City Site and its nearby areas,and the layout of this city site had the characteristics that densely concentrated small settlements were sparsely scattered in the large area.The archaeological data available to date temporarily implied that the Mudu Ancient City Site was a large-scale city site with the property of a capital city.