辽宁建平小北山夏家店下层文化遗址发掘简报

Excavation of Xiaobeishan Site of the Lower Xiajiadian Culture in Jianping,Liaoning

小北山遗址位于辽宁省朝阳市建平县红山街道张福店村四组北侧坡上,101国道北侧,东北距县政府所在地8.6公里,西距牛河梁遗址博物馆约0.5公里。坡下的季节性河流——第二牤牛河支流自西南向东北流过(图一)。遗址地势北高南低,地表起伏不大。

The Xiaobeishan Site is located on the northern slope of Group Four of Zhangfudian Village,Hongshan Street,Jianping County,Chaoyang City,Liaoning Province.From July to August 2022,the Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology of Jilin University and others conducted a joint excavation of the site,covering an area of 340 sq.m.The project discovered 2 house foundations,36 ash pits,and 1 ash trench equivalent to the Lower Xiajiadian Culture;unearthed artifacts include pottery,jade and stone wares,and bone objects,also found considerable furnace wall fragments and copper slags from an accumulation layer of copper smelting remains.The excavation provides new data and evidence to help confirm the copper smelting remains of the Lower Xiajiadian Culture,as well as helping investigate the early copper smelting technology and its origin and development in the western Liaoning region.