The Kangjiatun city-site is located 0.5km north of the Xiaobotai Gully at Kangjiatunvillage in Beipiao city, western Liaoning, lying on the second terrace on the southern bank of the DalingRiver, and belongs to the Lo...The Kangjiatun city-site is located 0.5km north of the Xiaobotai Gully at Kangjiatunvillage in Beipiao city, western Liaoning, lying on the second terrace on the southern bank of the DalingRiver, and belongs to the Lower Xiajiadian culture. In 1997-2000, it was continuously excavated in atotal area of 8,500 sq m, which resulted in the revelation of city walls, defensive projections along citywalls, a moat, and countyard walls, stone-paved roads, house-foundations, stone-built pits, “stone cases”, etc. in the city. According to stratigraphical evidence, including the superimposition and intrusion ofbuildings, the city-site can be divided into three phases. The excavation brought to light not only pottery,stone, bone and other artifacts, but also rather clear conditions of the layout and structure of the buildings in the city during the middle and late phases. Thus the site provides important data for studying theshape, layout and structure of city-sites in the Lower Xiajiadian culture, as well as human living and so-ial form in those cities.展开更多
The Niuheliang site is situated in the Nuluerhu mountain valley by the upper DalingRiver within western Liaoning, lying in the juncture of Lingyuan and Jianping counties, and constitutesHongshan culture ruins comprisi...The Niuheliang site is situated in the Nuluerhu mountain valley by the upper DalingRiver within western Liaoning, lying in the juncture of Lingyuan and Jianping counties, and constitutesHongshan culture ruins comprising 16 localities, including those of a temple, altars and barrows. Locality5 lies in the central zone of the site group, and was excavated on a large scale in 1987, 1998 and 1999.The work covered more than 2,000 sq m in total, and resulted in the revelation of three layers of culturaldeposits, which roughly represent three developmental stages of the Hongshan culture at Niuheliang. Theupper layer is represented by large-stones-built square or round stone-filled barrows and other tombs; themiddle layer, by broken-stones-surfaced stone-filled barrows directed to the north and south and sometimes having erect slabs, as well as sacrificial pits; and the lower layer, mainly by numerous ash-pits related to dwellings. Among the unearthed objects are pottery, jades, bone artifacts, polished stone toolsand microliths. The excavation of Locality Niuheliang-5 is of great importance to research into the contents of the Hongshan culture and to the re-understanding of this cultural complex.展开更多
In May-July, 1993, a tomb of the Tang period to the north of Huanghe Road inChaoyang city was excavated by the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology andthe Chaoyang Municipal Museum. It is a...In May-July, 1993, a tomb of the Tang period to the north of Huanghe Road inChaoyang city was excavated by the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology andthe Chaoyang Municipal Museum. It is a brick-built round single-chambered grave and consists of atomb-passage, gate, corridor, chamber and seepage trough. Despite its repeated robberies in early times,the tomb yielded numerous funeral objects, including 71 terra-cotta and two stone tomb-figures, twobronze mirrors and an ivory courtier' s-tablet. The tomb-figures are exquisitely and vividly made andconstitute the cream of the grave goods unearthed from Tang tombs in the Chaoyang area. Judging fromits size as well as the great number and variety of its funeral objects, the tomb must have belonged to aperson who enjoyed a high position before his death. The co-existence of terra-cotta tomb-figures withCentral Plains characteristics, clay ones in the western style and stone ones with northern features indicates that in the Tang dynasty, before the An and Shi rebellion, the Chaoyang area was an importantregion of multi-national exchange and amalgamation. The grave should be dated to the Wu Zetian reign ora little later.展开更多
文摘The Kangjiatun city-site is located 0.5km north of the Xiaobotai Gully at Kangjiatunvillage in Beipiao city, western Liaoning, lying on the second terrace on the southern bank of the DalingRiver, and belongs to the Lower Xiajiadian culture. In 1997-2000, it was continuously excavated in atotal area of 8,500 sq m, which resulted in the revelation of city walls, defensive projections along citywalls, a moat, and countyard walls, stone-paved roads, house-foundations, stone-built pits, “stone cases”, etc. in the city. According to stratigraphical evidence, including the superimposition and intrusion ofbuildings, the city-site can be divided into three phases. The excavation brought to light not only pottery,stone, bone and other artifacts, but also rather clear conditions of the layout and structure of the buildings in the city during the middle and late phases. Thus the site provides important data for studying theshape, layout and structure of city-sites in the Lower Xiajiadian culture, as well as human living and so-ial form in those cities.
文摘The Niuheliang site is situated in the Nuluerhu mountain valley by the upper DalingRiver within western Liaoning, lying in the juncture of Lingyuan and Jianping counties, and constitutesHongshan culture ruins comprising 16 localities, including those of a temple, altars and barrows. Locality5 lies in the central zone of the site group, and was excavated on a large scale in 1987, 1998 and 1999.The work covered more than 2,000 sq m in total, and resulted in the revelation of three layers of culturaldeposits, which roughly represent three developmental stages of the Hongshan culture at Niuheliang. Theupper layer is represented by large-stones-built square or round stone-filled barrows and other tombs; themiddle layer, by broken-stones-surfaced stone-filled barrows directed to the north and south and sometimes having erect slabs, as well as sacrificial pits; and the lower layer, mainly by numerous ash-pits related to dwellings. Among the unearthed objects are pottery, jades, bone artifacts, polished stone toolsand microliths. The excavation of Locality Niuheliang-5 is of great importance to research into the contents of the Hongshan culture and to the re-understanding of this cultural complex.
文摘In May-July, 1993, a tomb of the Tang period to the north of Huanghe Road inChaoyang city was excavated by the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology andthe Chaoyang Municipal Museum. It is a brick-built round single-chambered grave and consists of atomb-passage, gate, corridor, chamber and seepage trough. Despite its repeated robberies in early times,the tomb yielded numerous funeral objects, including 71 terra-cotta and two stone tomb-figures, twobronze mirrors and an ivory courtier' s-tablet. The tomb-figures are exquisitely and vividly made andconstitute the cream of the grave goods unearthed from Tang tombs in the Chaoyang area. Judging fromits size as well as the great number and variety of its funeral objects, the tomb must have belonged to aperson who enjoyed a high position before his death. The co-existence of terra-cotta tomb-figures withCentral Plains characteristics, clay ones in the western style and stone ones with northern features indicates that in the Tang dynasty, before the An and Shi rebellion, the Chaoyang area was an importantregion of multi-national exchange and amalgamation. The grave should be dated to the Wu Zetian reign ora little later.
