From September 1998 to early January 1999, the Shang and Zhou cemetery on the Qianzhangda site in Tengzhou city, Shandong province, was excavated on a large scale for the eighth time, which resulted in the revelation ...From September 1998 to early January 1999, the Shang and Zhou cemetery on the Qianzhangda site in Tengzhou city, Shandong province, was excavated on a large scale for the eighth time, which resulted in the revelation of 40 tombs. 2 horse and-chariot burial pits and substantial data. The present paper reports the No. 119 tomb and No.4 horse-and-chariot pit among the units excavated this time. Tomb 119 lies in the south of the cemetery and constitutesa rectangular earth shaft consisting of a chamber, second-tier platforms of mellow soil, a coffin and a head cabinets, and a waist-pit. It yielded about 230 funeral objects, including bronze, jade, pottery, wooden, stone, porcelain, shell and leather artifacts. The No.4 horse-and-charim pit is located to the west of the center of the cemetery. Looking like a inverted trapezoid in plan, it contains a single-pole double horse charim and, behind this, a human victim. The cemetery in southern Qianzhangda is a Shang and Zhou burial ground newly discovered in recent years. The systematization of the unearthed data will contribute to the study of the relationship between the dynasties in the Central Plains and the then local states in the east.展开更多
文摘From September 1998 to early January 1999, the Shang and Zhou cemetery on the Qianzhangda site in Tengzhou city, Shandong province, was excavated on a large scale for the eighth time, which resulted in the revelation of 40 tombs. 2 horse and-chariot burial pits and substantial data. The present paper reports the No. 119 tomb and No.4 horse-and-chariot pit among the units excavated this time. Tomb 119 lies in the south of the cemetery and constitutesa rectangular earth shaft consisting of a chamber, second-tier platforms of mellow soil, a coffin and a head cabinets, and a waist-pit. It yielded about 230 funeral objects, including bronze, jade, pottery, wooden, stone, porcelain, shell and leather artifacts. The No.4 horse-and-charim pit is located to the west of the center of the cemetery. Looking like a inverted trapezoid in plan, it contains a single-pole double horse charim and, behind this, a human victim. The cemetery in southern Qianzhangda is a Shang and Zhou burial ground newly discovered in recent years. The systematization of the unearthed data will contribute to the study of the relationship between the dynasties in the Central Plains and the then local states in the east.
