Location of Dongqu Site. The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology provides a picture. The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology announced the archaeological results of a site in the summer period on the 14th. A large number of agricultural remains were found at the Jishangdong Canal site in Yuncheng. Combined with the legend of "Houji" in Jishan, it may be exactly the archaeological evidence of "Houji people's farming in Jishan". Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology and Yuncheng Cultural Relics Protection Center carried out archaeological excavations on the Dongqu site twice in 2021 and 2022. A total of 2 house sites, 2 ceramic kilns, 1 ash ditch, and 43 ash pits were found. A large number of pottery, bone, jade, and abundant animal and plant remains were unearthed. The relics found include pottery, stone, bone, jade, mussel, etc. Stone tools include stone knives, stone shovels, stone arrowheads, stone adzes, etc. At the same time, a large number of stone materials and stone processing residues were found. The bone implements are mainly arrowheads, including a few bone shovels, bone needles, bone hairpins, etc. In addition, it is more important to find a jade axe and a copper sabre. The relics found include pottery, stone, bone, jade, mussel, etc. In addition to artefacts, the pictures provided by the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology also found abundant animal and plant remains. 250000 charred plant seeds have been flotation, and 14050 millet seeds have been flotation from only one sample in H46. According to the preliminary study, the carbonized seeds of crops in Dongqu Site include millet, millet, rice, soybean, etc., mainly millet. In addition, a large number of animal bones have been found, including cattle, pigs, sheep, etc. Seen from the unearthed relics, the Dongqu Site was in the Xia period and belonged to the Dongxiafeng culture. A large number of animal and plant remains unearthed show that the ancestors of Dongqu have mastered the relatively developed agricultural production technology and formed a mixed agricultural production system that focuses on planting millet and concurrently engages in animal husbandry. Plant remains. Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology provides bone artifacts. Cui Junjun, the head of the excavation project for the map provided by the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, said that the excavation of the Dongqu site filled the gap in the study of the Xia culture in the western part of the Linfen Basin. Judging from the scale of the site and the unearthed relics such as Tao He, Tao Jue, Yu Yue, copper knife, and painted pottery, it should be a core settlement in the region. The relics represented by the high-necked lace double tripod show the complex and diverse cultural features of southern Shanxi in the Xia Dynasty, which is of great academic value for displaying the history of the Xia Dynasty and studying the cultural pattern of southern Shanxi in the Xia Dynasty. (Outlook New Era)
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