山西绛县西吴壁遗址2018-2020年周代遗存发掘简报

Excavation Report of the Xiwubi Site in Jiangxian County, Shanxi Province(2018-2020)

2018-2020年,中国国家博物馆、山西省考古研究院及运城市文物保护研究所组成的联合考古队,在山西西吴壁遗址开展了三年五个季度的考古发掘工作,揭露出丰富的史前及其后多个历史时期的考古学文化遗存。本文主要简报发掘所获东周遗存,并对其进行简要分析。文章指出,西吴壁遗址东周聚落面积约100万平方米,包含居址和墓葬。已发掘的东周遗存皆为居址,时代多属战国,另有少量可早至春秋晚期,文化面貌与侯马新田遗址同时期者基本相同,属晋文化范畴。这些遗存丰富了遗址的考古学文化编年,为研究遗址的堆积结构、聚落变迁等问题提供了重要实物资料。

The excavation of the Xiwubi site lasted for five seasons during 2018 to 2020,which revealed a variety of relics and artifacts ranging from prehistoric to historic periods.This article reports the Eastern Zhou remains and makes a brief analysis of them.The Xiwubi Eastern Zhou settlement which contained residences and burials covered an area of one million square meters.Most of the excavated residences could date to the Warring States period while a few of them to the Spring and Autumn period.The culture traits were basically as same as those of the Eastern Zhou remains at the Xintian site in Houma,both of which were Jin culture relics.These discoveries enriched the archaeological chronicle of the Xiwubi site and provided vital material for the research of site structure and settlement transition.