China News Agency, Zhengzhou, September 16 (Reporter Han Zhangyun) The State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China released four "Archaeological China" projects that have made significant progress on the 16th.

Among them, in a newly discovered Shang Dynasty noble burial area at the Shangdu site in Zhengzhou, gold coverings were unearthed, and a large amount of gold was found.

Archaeologists believe that this provides a new reference material for discussing the golden masks and the cultural styles of gold decoration in southwestern China.

  In May 2021, the Zhengzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology discovered a Shang Dynasty noble burial area in the south of East Street, east of Zijingshan Road, and north of Shuyuan Street in Zhengzhou City in cooperation with infrastructure archaeology.

The burial area is composed of trenches, passages, bronze tombs, other tombs (the first tomb area), sacrificial pits, etc. The existing area is more than 10,000 square meters.

After research and judgment, the era of the burial area is the Baijiazhuang period of Zhengzhou Mall.

  More than 200 funerary objects were unearthed from the main tomb in the burial area, including 20 bronze ware, 11 jade ware, 5 gold ware, 50 arrowheads, more than 120 shell coins, and plaques inlaid with turquoise with gold foil as the ground, etc. .

This is the noble tomb with the largest number, the most variety and the highest level of burial objects found so far at the Shangdu site in Zhengzhou.

  What is particularly special is that six dog sacrifices were found at the bottom of the main tomb, which is very rare in the early and Chinese Shang cultures.

Archaeologists believe that this provides a new understanding of the source of high-level Shang tomb sacrificial dog culture, such as the Gaocheng Taixi site, the Anyang Yinxu site, and the Shandong Subutun site.

  At the same time, gold cladding was unearthed in the main tomb, and a large amount of gold was found.

Archaeologists believe that this provides a new reference material for discussing the golden masks and the cultural styles of gold decoration in southwestern China.

  It is reported that the archaeological discoveries in the Shang Dynasty aristocratic burial area of ​​Shuyuan Street at the Shangdu Ruins in Zhengzhou are the most iconic and important new archaeological discoveries in the Shang Dynasty capital of Zhengzhou in recent years.

Its unique feature is that it presents the historical and cultural connotation of Zhengzhou Shangdu, which is of great practical significance for understanding ancient Chinese civilization.

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