Two Han tombs at Tushantun Cemetery in Qingdao, Shandong
Abstract
In April and May 2011, Qingdao Municipal Institute of Cultural Heritage Conservation and Archaeology and Huangdao District Museum excavated the Tushantun Cemetery located in Huangdao District, Qingdao City. The excavation cleared three mounds and recovered seven tombs beneath them. Of these seven tombs, M6 and M8 are vertical shaft stone pit tombs with brick-timber coffin chambers and ramp passages, the burial receptacles of which are nested double-coffin and double-coffin chamber, and the grave goods unearthed from which include bronzes, jades, lacquered wares, pottery and porcelain wares and implements made of bone and horn (turtle scute). The types and styles of the tombs and grave goods all show that the dates of these two tombs are the late Western Han to the early Eastern Han Dynasty. The excavation of these tombs provided important physical materials for the studies on the burial system, geography and material culture in the coastal area of southeastern Shandong during the Han Dynasty.
Postscript
The original report published in Kaogu 考古 (Archaeology) 2017.10:32–59 with 72 color illustrations is authored by Luhong Zheng 郑禄红 and Jianhong Weng 翁建红. This abridged version is prepared by the authors and translated into English by Edward Allen 安达.
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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
