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The Remains of Liangzhu Culture at Jiangzhuang Site in Xinghua and Dongtai Cities, Jiangsu

Nanjing Museum
Published/Copyright: November 18, 2017
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Chinese Archaeology
From the journal Chinese Archaeology Volume 17 Issue 1

Abstract

In October 2011 to December 2015, the Institute of Archaeology, Nanjing Museum conducted two terms of excavations to the Jiangzhuang Site located in the administrated areas of Xinghua and Dongtai Cities, Jiangsu Province. The main work was the large-scale uncovering of the settlement of the Liangzhu Culture located in the west zone of the site, the features recovered from which included burials, house foundations, ash pits, water wells, ash ditches, etc. In the cemetery of the Liangzhu Culture in the northeast of the west zone of the site, burials were densely arranged; most of the burials had burial receptacles, and the skeletons were well preserved, the burial positions of which included primary burials and secondary burials. The discovery and excavation of the settlement of Liangzhu Culture at Jiangzhuang Site revised the traditional viewpoint of the academic field that the north border of the Liangzhu Culture was limited by the Yangtze River and provided new materials for the comprehensive and in-depth researches on the civilization and society of the Liangzhu Culture. The large amount of human skeletons unearthed from the burials of the Liangzhu Culture will also effectively improve the indepth researches on the burial custom, social organization and relationship and racial attribution of the people of Liangzhu Culture.

Keywords: Cemeteries--Liangzhu Culture; Jiangzhuang Site (Xinghua and Dongtai Cities, Jiangsu); secondary burial--Neolithic Age--China

Postscript

The original report published in Kaogu 考古 (Archaeology) 2016.7:19-30 with 45 illustrations was authored by Huiyuan Gan 甘恢元, Liugen Lin 林留根, Longzhou Yan 闫龙周, and Bo Jin 金波. This full-text English translation is done by Nicholas Vogt 侯昱文.

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Published Online: 2017-11-18
Published in Print: 2017-12-20

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https://doi.org/10.1515/char-2017-0002
Keywords for this article
Cemeteries--Liangzhu Culture; Jiangzhuang Site (Xinghua and Dongtai Cities, Jiangsu); secondary burial--Neolithic Age--China

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  2. New archaeological discoveries
  3. Neolithic cultural remains in the coastal area of southeastern Hainan Province
  4. New archaeological discoveries
  5. The Remains of Liangzhu Culture at Jiangzhuang Site in Xinghua and Dongtai Cities, Jiangsu
  6. New archaeological discoveries
  7. The 2014-2015 excavations of the Zhouyuan Site in Baoji, Shaanxi
  8. New archaeological discoveries
  9. Marquis of Haihun’s tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Nanchang, Jiangxi
  10. New archaeological discoveries
  11. The excavation of the Taiji Hall complex in Han-Wei Luoyang City
  12. Spotlight
  13. The tusi cemetery of the Yang Family at Xinpu New District, Zunyi City, Guizhou
  14. Spotlight
  15. The archaeological survey and excavation of walls and passes of the Hailong Tun site in Zunyi City, Guizhou
  16. Reports
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  19. The excavation of walls and roads at the Erlitou Site in Yanshi City, Henan in 2012–2013
  20. Reports
  21. The bone workshop site of Yinxu Period at Tiesan Road in Anyang, Henan
  22. Reports
  23. The excavation of the Dadianshan Cemetery in Changning, Yunan
  24. Reports
  25. The excavation of the Huahaizi No. 3 Site in Qinghe County, Xinjiang
  26. Reports
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