China News Agency, Taiyuan, April 13 (Reporter Yang Jieying and Hu Jian) The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology released the excavation of the Taoyuan site in Linfen, Shanxi on the 13th.
Among them, the pentagon-shaped house site in Yangshao period more than 5,000 years ago is an important discovery of this excavation.
The Taoyuan site is located at the junction of the southeast of Taoyuan Village in the south of Jiade Township, Yaodu District, Linfen City, Shanxi Province and the north of Sitou Village, Dengzhuang Town, Xiangfen County.
From July to the end of December 2016, Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, together with Shanxi University, Linfen Cultural Relics and Archaeology Workstation, Xiangfen County Culture and Tourism Bureau and other units, carried out a large-scale rescue excavation of the site.
The excavation found more than 300 ash pits and cellars, 1 pottery kiln and 5 house sites in the Yangshao period, the Miaodigou culture and the Xiwangcun type, the Erlitou culture in the Xia and Shang periods, and the Dongxiafeng type in the Eastern Zhou period. There are 15 tombs, of which the Yangshao period is the most abundant.
A total of 3 pentagonal houses were found in the Taoyuan site excavation, which are F1, F2, and F5.
From the archaeological discoveries in recent years, it can be seen that the pentagonal house site appeared frequently in the Yangshao period ruins.
The houses of this shape are mainly found in the western Henan, southern Shanxi and Guanzhong areas. With the Fenwei Basin as the core distribution area, the distribution area radiates outward, and can extend westward to the Longdong area in the upper reaches of the Jingwei River, and to the north to the Luliang area in the northwest of Shanxi The era is concentrated in the middle period of Yangshao Culture, which is a kind of characteristic relic of the culture of this period.
The F1 excavated this time and the other two pentagonal houses found at the site have enriched the physical materials for the study of the settlement morphology of the Taoyuan site.
Its discovery has provided new materials for the study of the architectural form, technology and function of the houses in the middle Yangshao period in the southern Jin area, and once again confirmed the important position of the southern Jin area in the Miaodigou culture.
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