Henan Erlitou Site has new discoveries!

On September 16th, the important work progress of the National Cultural Relics Bureau's "Archeological China" major project was held in Beijing. The layout of Xia Dynasty Metropolitan City, Luoyang, Luoyang, Henan: Newly discovered more roads and both sides of walls, which enriched Erlitou. The connotation of the city's multi -network format is the prototype of the "Lifang system" in the later urban layout.

Since the fall of 2020 to the present, archeologists have newly discovered the doorway on Gongbei Road, the southeast corner of the wall west of Miyagi, the southeast corner is near the right corner, and the inner side is destroyed. The width is about 15 meters, and the north -south long -shaped rammed soil wall with a width of about 2 meters on both sides. The rammed earth wall on the east side should be the west of the west side of the sacrifice area; the rammed earth wall on the west side should be the east wall on the west area of ​​the sacrifice area.

Zhao Haitao, the captain of the Erlitou Working Team of the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that according to Gongnan Road and Gongbei Road to west of more than 470 meters and 410 meters, all exceeded the width of Miyagi (about 295 meters) and continued to the west Extension, it is speculated that there are at least one partition in the workshop area, palace area, and sacrifice area west. The "well" glyph road at the northwest road and northwest intersection should have four corners of the wall of the fences, which correspond to the corner of the southwest corner of Miyagi, the northwest corner of the workshop area, and the west of these two areas. The corner of the corner of these two areas in the west area.

Handicraft industry is an important foundation for social operation. In recent years, in the northwest of the Erlitou site, it has discovered the relics related to the processing of lacquerware. The excavation of more than 800 pieces of pottery with red lacquer with red paint is more than 20 times that of the total amount of lacquer pots unearthed in the past years. It is rare. Important areas of workshops.

According to reports, the Erlitou site also found richer ceramic relics for the first time, including multiple processes of pottery technology. From 2020 to 2021, a larger area and rich pottery -related relics were found in the west of the sacrifice area and the northwest of the site, including pottery kiln, mud pits, mud, burning soil, scum, deformation pottery, a large number of crushed pottery, and pottery. Cushion, trimming tools, etc.

Nearly 100 square meters of bone and corner processing workshop found. A large number of bones and keratin relics are scattered on the surface, including animal limbs, ribs, horn, antlers, etc. There are many traces of smashing, cutting, and grinding in the bone and keratin relics. There are raw materials, semi -finished products and waste, including taper, crickets, 簪 and other finished products, including relics in multiple links in the process of bone and corner processing.

Zhao Haitao said that these are important breakthroughs in the research of handicraft archeology and urban layout, which provides important information for research on the city's urban layout and planning concepts, as well as technology, processes, organizations, and nature of handicraft processing.

Archaeological excavations show that the west grid of the sacrifice area divided into the "well" glyphs of the Erlitou site, there is a high -standard tomb with copper and jade gifted in the courtyard; The tombs with amputation and beheading, but burial with pottery; there are also a burial tomb that is buried in many people, which are less discovered in the past.

Zhao Haitao said that this important new discovery enriches the connotation of the city of Erli. In order to understand the distribution of the relics of the area, it is determined that the area provides important support for the noble residence and the tomb area. The changes and social relations at that time provided an important basis.

Source: Henan Daily WeChat public account (ID: HNRBXMTB)

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