The excavation of the Daxi Cultural remains at Dashuitian Site in Wushan County, Chongqing
Abstract
From March to September 2014, Chongqing Municipal Institute of Cultural Heritage and other institutions excavated the Dashuitian (Big Paddy) Site in Wushan County. The field project revealed 473 features and recovered more than 1800 artifacts made of pottery, stone and jade of the Daxi and Shang-Zhou Cultures. Among these features and artifacts, the flexed burials, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic stone ornaments, and jade artifacts bore unique characteristics of the Daxi Culture. They are valuable information for the understanding of the primitive religion, social organization and ideology of the past.
Postscript
The original report published in Kaogu 考古 (Archaeology) 2017.1:42–50 with 24 line drawings and 19 color plates was coauthored by Yubiao Dai 代玉彪 and Jiujiang Bai 白九江. This abridged version was translated into English by Yun Kuen Lee 李润权.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- New archaeological discoveries
- The Banlashan Cemetery of Hongshan Culture in Chaoyang City, Liaoning
- Surveys and excavations in 2014–2016 at Shijiahe Site in Tianmen City, Hubei
- The Imperial City Terrace Locality of the Shimao City Site in Shenmu County, Shaanxi Province
- The Jartai Pass Site in Nilka County, Xinjiang
- Reports
- The excavation of the Modaoshan Site of the Paleolithic Age in Yunan County, Guangdong
- The excavation of the Daxi Cultural remains at Dashuitian Site in Wushan County, Chongqing
- The excavation of the Wujiachang Cemetery in Fuquanshan Site, Shanghai in 2010
- The Shang burials at the Yangjiawan Locality of the Panlongcheng Site in Wuhan
- The excavation of burial M89 at Tiesan Road at the Yinxu Site in Anyang, Henan
- The excavation of the burial M8 at the Zhoujiazhai Cemetery in Suizhou, Hubei
- The recovering of the Qianfosi cliff sculptures in Tongnan County, Chongqing
- Research
- On the subsistence types of the Xiantouling Culture
- On the origin and formation of the early Qin Culture
- On the provenance study method of the archaeological relics based on styles and distributions
- Maitreya statues in the Southern Dynasties and the incarnation of Fu Dashi as Maitreya
- A preliminary research on the burials of the Mongol Khanate period and Yuan Dynasty in northern area
- The emergence and early utilization of domestic sheep in Xinjiang
- The development and formation of soldering technique on the bronze ritual vessel casting of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties
- Brief report on the laboratory archaeology of the tomb M1 at Dahekou
