New discovery of the Zhaoyao site of Hebei: There is a fire in the Shang Dynasty

Xinhua News Agency, Shijiazhuang, June 29 (Reporter Gao Bo) The reporter learned from the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology that archaeologists recently discovered the Shang Dynasty fire in the Zhaoyao site of Handan. Shang Dynasty.

"Fire 方 is the heating facility of the northern residents in my country. The earliest record of my country about the fire in China was the Western Han Fire Clear discovered at the Heishan site in Baoshui East in Baoding in 2006. Wei Shuguang, director of the Archaeological Research Office of the Cultural Relics and Archaeological Research Institute.

The archeological excavation work of the Zhaoyao site is a special research project for Hebei Province to participate in the "Research on the Research on the Process of Civilization of Archeology -Central Plains". In 2021, with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Relics, the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeological Research Institutes and Handan City Institute of Cultural Relics Protection and Wu'an Cultural Relics Storage Institute formed the archeological team to conduct a comprehensive investigation, focusing on exploration and excavation of the Zhaoyao site. Important understanding.

Wei Shuguang introduced that since October 2021, the Zhaoyao site has completed an excavated area of ​​340 square meters, and partly exposed the commercial settlement. As of now, a total of 9 seats have been found, which are generally 3 rows and 3 columns. Among them, 4 seats are in front and rear dual -room shapes. Most rooms have steps. grade. Among them, the discovery of the front room 5 is the most important.

Archaeologists discovered that the site 5 was a semi -acupoint dual room site. The front room was north and the back room was south. There are half a circular fireplace on the northern part of the front room and the south side of the doorway, with a diameter of 0.8 meters in diameter.

It was found that the west of the front room of the front room 5 was extremely hard, and there was a layer of ashes with a thickness of 3 cm thick below the hard earth surface. At the bottom of the front room, there is a braised soil shallow groove from the bottom of the furnace along the north wall of the room to the west. It is divided into 3 shares in the shallow ditch in the middle of the north wall. Below the south wall also has a braised soil shallow ditch, connects to the west to the hard earth, and connects to the southeast corner of the house to the east. From the fireplace through the braised soil shallow ditch, enter the hard earth surface, and then connect to the stove pit through the red -burning soil light groove, so as to form a complete thermal conductivity.

Experts speculate that the hard soil surface in the front room of the No. 5 site should be a fire surface, which is uneven due to collapse. From the analysis of the unearthed pottery, the age of the No. 5 site was early in the late business.

"The beginning of the Zhaoyao Site's Settlement of the Site has reflected high levels and value. The excavation of Zhaoyao Site is of great significance for the early cultural settlement layout of Yangshao and the evolution of cultural sequences in the southern southern Hebei region during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties." Wei Shuguang said.

The Zhaoyao site is located in Zhaoyao Village, Wu'an City, Handan. It is a key cultural relics protection unit in Hebei Province. It has been excavated twice in 1960 and 1975. The cultural connotation of the Zhao kiln site was rich in culture. From the early days of Yangshao, which was 6400 years ago, it was almost no interruption to the Han Dynasty. In particular, it was most important to discover that Yangshao's early ring settings and high -level sites and tombs in the middle and late business period.

【Edit: Li Yan】

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