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The excavation of the Wangyukou Locus South at Yinxu Site in Anyang City, Henan in 2009
Anyang Archaeological Team, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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November 19, 2015
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In March through December 2009, Anyang Archaeological Team of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences conducted excavation to the remains of the Shang Dynasty at Wangyukou Locus South. The excavation recovered roads, house foundations, wells, ash pits, sacrificial pits, burials, etc. The family cemetery represented by tombs M103 and M94 was the main achievement of this excavation: the bronzes unearthed from these two tombs bore inscriptions with the same name as that of the diviner “ ” in the oracle bone inscriptions. Therefore, this cemetery might be the family cemetery of diviner “ ”. These two tombs belonged to Phases II and III respectively, the different characteristics shown by which provided rare materials for the researches on the positions of the diviner groups and the changes of the diviner in the Yinxu Period.
Published Online: 2015-11-19
Published in Print: 2015-11-1
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
Diviner tombs-Shang Dynasty;
Wangyukou Locus South;
Yinxu Site (Anyang City;
Henan)
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- Feature
- Solving puzzles about the casting method of bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty
- New archaeological discoveries
- The Xichengyi Site in Zhangye City, Gansu
- The Eastern Zhou cemetery at Wenfengta, Suizhou City
- Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum site in Xi’an
- The remains of the ancient bridges on the Wei River in Xi’an City
- The Laoguanshan Cemetery of the Han Dynasty in Tianhui Town, Chengdu City
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