The pottery archaeologists unearthed in the high-grade cemetery of the Huangchengtai at the Shimao Ruins of the Huangchengtai at the Shimao Ruins of Shaanxi excavated the high-grade cemetery found at the Shimao Ruins of the Huangchengtai at the Shimao Ruins of Shaanxi. The high-grade cemetery found at the Shimao Ruins of the Huangchengtai at the Shimao Ruins of Shaanxi, as an important part of the source exploration project of the Chinese civilization, also made important discoveries in the archaeological excavation work in 2022, Archaeologists have found a high-grade cemetery at the west side of the top of the Imperial City Platform, the core area of the Shimao Site. At present, 15 vertical pits and tombs in the Shimao Culture period dating back to about 4000 years have been found, with many stone walls. On January 12, the 2022 press conference on important archaeological discoveries in Shaanxi was held in Xi'an. Shao Jing, research librarian of Shaanxi Provincial Academy of Archaeology, introduced the latest archaeological findings of Shimao Site at the press conference. The cemetery found this time is separated from the core building distribution area of the Imperial Citadel by a stone wall with a width of about 4 meters. The 15 vertical pit tombs can be divided into two areas: the north and the south. The south area has a higher level of burial, and the plane is rectangular with rounded corners. The burial chamber area is generally more than 10 square meters, and the depth is 3.5 meters to 4 meters. Wooden coffins are commonly used in tombs, which are made of mortise and tenon sleeves, and have been decayed into ash marks. People are generally killed in tombs. Due to serious theft, the burial style of the tomb owner is unknown, and most of the utensils in the niche have been stolen. Individual niches on the inner wall of the tombs were not damaged, and a complete set of complete pottery was unearthed, with the surface painted in red. A small number of jade articles and fragments were found in the coffins of individual tombs and in the stolen caves, and the recognizable ones were axe, chisel, ring, etc. Shao Jing said that the cemetery found this time is the highest level of Shimao culture cemetery found at present. The cemetery and the "big platform foundation" of the imperial city platform jointly build the basic pattern of "the former palace and the later cemetery" on the imperial city platform. In addition, the tombs in the central and southern areas of the cemetery have the characteristics of continuous row distribution and stone walls built around the tombs, indicating that the high-level cemetery of Shimao culture has mature planning awareness and tomb buildings, or has formed the prototype of the cemetery. Huangchengtai High-grade Cemetery further highlights the degree of civilization of Shimao society, which is an important demonstration that Shimao has entered the early state form and an important harvest of the exploration of the origin of Chinese civilization in recent years. (Xinhua News Agency)