安徽庐江丁家畈遗址西周墓葬简报

Brief Report of Excavation of the Western Zhou Tombs at the Dingjiafan Site in Lujiang of Anhui Province

丁家畈遗址位于安徽省庐江县万山镇丁家畈村东,由5个人工堆筑的高台组成。经发掘确认该遗址为一处西周时期大型聚落遗址,具备驻守、生产和交通运输等功能。其中团墩发掘的8座西周时期墓葬,与陕西长安张家坡西周中期竖穴土坑墓的墓葬形制、器物组合和陶器特征基本一致,应属西周时期周人墓葬。这一发现表明遗址可能与中原王朝经略“南土”,维护南北交通“金道锡行”设置的军事、政治、交通据点有关。

The Dingjiafan site is located to the east of the Dingjiafan Village in Wanshan Town,Lujiang County of Anhui Province.It consists of five man-built platforms.Archaeological excavations have confirmed it was a large settlement in the Western Zhou dynasty,functioning as a residential area,a production center,and a transportation hub.Eight tombs dating to the Western Zhou period were excavated at the Tuandun site,and they shared similar burial forms,artifactual combinations,and pottery characteristics with the shaft pit tombs of the mid-Western Zhou period discovered at Zhangjiapo in Chang'an of Shaanxi Province,presumably suggesting their identity as the Zhou people.We argue that the Dingjiafan site may be related to the military,political,and transportation hub established by the kings of the Central Plains for strategizing in the southern region and maintaining the north-south communication known as Jindao Xihang(Copper-Tin Road).