In 1979, the Yantiai Municipal Museum excavated 14 tombs at Jingouzhai in the eastern suburb of the city, which are all rectangular earth-pit graves with funeral object pits in most cases. The corpses are principally ...In 1979, the Yantiai Municipal Museum excavated 14 tombs at Jingouzhai in the eastern suburb of the city, which are all rectangular earth-pit graves with funeral object pits in most cases. The corpses are principally buried singly in a coffin with or withour wooden chamber, in an extended supine position. The grave goods are mainly pottery, mostly practical articles. A few large-sized tombs yielded sets of ritual vessels in imitation of bronzes, as well as bronzes, chiefly weapons, and talcum artifacts. Most of the objects are placed in the coffin, on one side of the human skeleton, while pottery and talcum ornaments, such as huang semi-discs, beads and tubes, are put between the coffin and the chamber. Judging from the shape of tombs and the combination of funeral objects and taking related tombs of other areas into comparison, the cemetery under discussion can be dated to the earlier Warring States period.展开更多
文摘In 1979, the Yantiai Municipal Museum excavated 14 tombs at Jingouzhai in the eastern suburb of the city, which are all rectangular earth-pit graves with funeral object pits in most cases. The corpses are principally buried singly in a coffin with or withour wooden chamber, in an extended supine position. The grave goods are mainly pottery, mostly practical articles. A few large-sized tombs yielded sets of ritual vessels in imitation of bronzes, as well as bronzes, chiefly weapons, and talcum artifacts. Most of the objects are placed in the coffin, on one side of the human skeleton, while pottery and talcum ornaments, such as huang semi-discs, beads and tubes, are put between the coffin and the chamber. Judging from the shape of tombs and the combination of funeral objects and taking related tombs of other areas into comparison, the cemetery under discussion can be dated to the earlier Warring States period.
