Shang and Zhou Cemetery in Xiaohu Village, Xingyang (later Funded Project by the National Social Science Fund)
by Henan Provincial Institute Of Cultural Relics And Archeology
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This book systematically compiles the excavation data and basic research results of 58 late Shang tombs and 64 Zhou Dynasty tombs (2 Western Zhou tombs and 62 Eastern Zhou tombs) in Xiaohu Village Cemetery in Xingyang. Xiaohu Village Cemetery is located in the northeast of Xiaohu Village, Guangwu Town, Xingyang City, Henan Province, about 5 kilometers north of the Yellow River. The 58 late Shang tombs were all rectangular earth pit tombs with vertical pits, and a total of 405 relics were unearthed, including 154 bronzes. The 64 Zhou Dynasty tombs were all earth pit tombs with vertical pits, and a total of 217 relics were unearthed, mainly pottery. The information obtained from the archaeological excavation of Xiaohu Village Cemetery in Xingyang has important academic value for the study of funeral customs, ethnic origins and related historical and geographical issues in the late Shang Dynasty and Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Researchers from the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology carefully drew the general plan of the cemetery, more than 200 plane and section views of the tombs and unearthed artifacts, and took more than 400 pictures of the unearthed cultural relics and the excavation site, vividly and intuitively reproducing the Shang and Zhou cemeteries in Xiaohu Village, Xingyang and the unearthed cultural relics.
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