The Gujun Site of the Eastern Zhou Period in Xingtang County, Hebei
Abstract
In the years 2015 through 2017, archaeological excavations were conducted to the Gujun Site in Xingtang County, which recovered burials, chariot-and-horse pits and sacrificial pits, house foundations, water wells, ash pits, kilns, ash ditches and other features, from which artifacts made of gold, bronze, jade, stone, bone, horn and antler, shell and cowry, pottery, etc. were unearthed. The date of this site was from the late Spring-and-Autumn Period to the mid and late Warring-States Period, in which the city site, burials and residential areas were existing together; their dates, locations and cultural connotations are all closely related to the Xianyu tribe and Zhongshan State, especially the chariot-and-horse and animal victim pits with unique form were the first archaeologically discovered remains of this type. The discovery of the Gujun Site reflected the convergence and evolutions of the cultures of the ethnic groups in the Northern Frontier Zone and the Huaxia System, and provided important materials for the researches on the processes of the Sinicization of the northern ethnic groups such as Rong and Di and the configuration of the Chinese nation as a pluralistic integration.
Postscript
The original report published in Kaogu考古 (Archaeology) 2018.7:44–66 with 87 illustrations is authored by Chunchang Zhang 张春长, Ruipu Qi 齐瑞普, Huaiying Chang 常怀颖, and Wei Yan 闫炜. This English version is translated by Kirstin Clouser 柯恺欣.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- New archaeological discoveries
- The Nanshan Site in Mingxi County, Fujian
- The Jiaojia Site of the Neolithic Age in Zhangqiu District, Jinan
- The Gujun Site of the Eastern Zhou Period in Xingtang County, Hebei
- The Changbai Mountain god temple site of the Jin Dynasty in Antu County, Jilin
- Reports
- Excavation of the Jiahu Site in Wuyang County, Henan in 2013
- The excavation of the tomb M1017 at Dahekou Cemetery of the Western Zhou Dynasty in Yicheng, Shanxi
- The excavation of water well J3 at the Ancient City Site of the Zhu State in Zoucheng City, Shandong Province in 2017
- Two Han tombs at Tushantun Cemetery in Qingdao, Shandong
- The excavation of Yelü Hongli’s tomb in Beizhen City, Liaoning
- The excavation of Tongmuling zinc-smelting site in Guiyang County, Hunan Province
- Archaeological survey and excavation of the Mingtepa Site in Andijan Region, Uzbekistan
- Research
- A study on the cinnabar-bottomed burials of the early Bronze Age
- The restoration of the chariots of the Warring-States Period in Majiayuan, Gansu (continued) – the designing and making skills of chariots and modifying and designing ideas of oxcarts
- On white marble half-lotus meditation statues carved in Wuding Era of the Eastern Wei Dynasty
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- New archaeological discoveries
- The Nanshan Site in Mingxi County, Fujian
- The Jiaojia Site of the Neolithic Age in Zhangqiu District, Jinan
- The Gujun Site of the Eastern Zhou Period in Xingtang County, Hebei
- The Changbai Mountain god temple site of the Jin Dynasty in Antu County, Jilin
- Reports
- Excavation of the Jiahu Site in Wuyang County, Henan in 2013
- The excavation of the tomb M1017 at Dahekou Cemetery of the Western Zhou Dynasty in Yicheng, Shanxi
- The excavation of water well J3 at the Ancient City Site of the Zhu State in Zoucheng City, Shandong Province in 2017
- Two Han tombs at Tushantun Cemetery in Qingdao, Shandong
- The excavation of Yelü Hongli’s tomb in Beizhen City, Liaoning
- The excavation of Tongmuling zinc-smelting site in Guiyang County, Hunan Province
- Archaeological survey and excavation of the Mingtepa Site in Andijan Region, Uzbekistan
- Research
- A study on the cinnabar-bottomed burials of the early Bronze Age
- The restoration of the chariots of the Warring-States Period in Majiayuan, Gansu (continued) – the designing and making skills of chariots and modifying and designing ideas of oxcarts
- On white marble half-lotus meditation statues carved in Wuding Era of the Eastern Wei Dynasty
- Rethinking the origins of animal domestication in China
