After more than a year of archaeological excavations, a large number of pottery, stone tools and a small amount of jade were unearthed at the Fenghuangzui site in Xiangzhou District, Xiangyang City, Hubei. Recently, a beautiful "egg shell pottery cup" was unearthed.
Dr. Shan Siwei, the lead teacher of the archaeological team at the Phoenix Tsui Site of Wuhan University, introduced that the pottery cup that was just unearthed is intact and made very beautifully. The shape looks very similar to the goblet for drinking red wine. The pottery tube is very thin and in professional terms. Call it "Eggshell Pottery Cup".
From the perspective of shape and craftsmanship, it is not a local product in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, but should come from Shandong Longshan Culture.
It is generally believed that the eggshell pottery cup is not an ordinary utensil for daily use, but a ritual utensil to show noble status.
It shows that in the prehistoric period, Xiangyang and Shandong had extensive and high-level exchanges.
The Fenghuangzui site is located in the middle reaches of the Han River, spanning the two villages of Qianwang and Yanying, Longwang Town, Xiangzhou District, Xiangyang City.
Based on the analysis of the unearthed pottery tripods, pots, beans, cups, ring foot plates, cylinders, urns, urns and other cultural relics, archaeologists determined that the site was 5200 to 3900 years ago, and the main age belongs to the Qujialing culture and Shijia River culture and Meishan culture.
(Produced by Hu Chuanlin and Yangdong Plateau by Lu Huiqian)
Editor in charge: [Wu Qingcai]