Our newspaper, Changchun, December 5th reporter Ren Shuang and trainee reporter Li layer learned from the Jilin Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology on the 5th that the 2022 exploration and excavation work at the Weizili site in Nong'an County, Changchun City, Jilin Province has successfully concluded.
In 2022, a total of 24 relics such as house sites, tombs, and ash pits were cleared at the Weizili site, and 101 relics such as pottery, stone tools, bone tools, clam tools, and metal tools were unearthed.
After preliminary research and judgment, this batch of relics spans from the Bronze Age of the Xia and Shang Dynasties to the Early Iron Age of the Warring Han Dynasty, which can provide new research materials for the construction of the Bronze in the Songhua River Basin in Xiliu - the archaeological cultural chronology of the Early Iron Age.
The Weizili site is located on the south bank platform of the Songhua River in the northeast of Xiaochengzi Village, Xiaochengzi Township, Nong'an County, 6 kilometers away from the river, and is located in the Songhua River basin in the west.
The entire site covers an area of about 100,000 square meters. It was discovered in 2018. Since 2019, the Jilin Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Changchun Museum have conducted systematic archaeological exploration and excavation. So far, an area of 1,667.5 square meters has been excavated, and various Bronze Age relics have been discovered Nearly 100 places, more than 500 pieces of various relics were unearthed.
Most of the relics unearthed this year are pottery, which can be identified as pots, pots, tripods, ge, beans, cups, bowls, bowls, etc., and there are nearly 100,000 pieces of pottery.
Among them, a group of tube-bellied li has great archaeological research value.
"The tube-bellied Li is an indicative artifact used to divide the archaeological culture of the Bronze Age in the Nenjiang River Basin. Its shape and decoration often represent the age. Li has nuances, and the combination of other pottery will help to make up for the gap in the development sequence of Bronze Age archaeological culture in this area." Wang Yixue, the archaeological excavation leader of the Weizili site, said.
In addition, several divination bones made of fish gill bones were discovered for the first time in Northeast China.
Wang Yixue added that in the past, bronzes were found in the Northeast—the oracle bones of the early Iron Age were mostly made of the shoulder blades of mammals such as cattle, horses, deer, and sheep, or the well-known tortoise shells.
In this year's archaeological work, archaeologists also explored the direction and distribution of the ring trenches revealed in the Weizili site in 2020 and 2022, and the proven length is about 280 meters.
As a boundary moat with defensive functions in ancient times, various Bronze Age relics, including stone arrows, were unearthed from various layers of accumulation in the ring moat.
The discovery and confirmation of the moat has played a positive role in promoting the study of the social organization form, settlement form and people's production and lifestyle in the Bronze Age in the Xiliu Songhua River Basin.
According to Wang Yixue, since the exploration and excavation of the Weizili site, the unearthed Bronze Age archaeological materials have filled the gap in Bronze Age archaeological research in the Xiliu Songhua River Basin.
At the same time, this is also the first time that the Xiaolaha Culture, Ancient City Culture, Baijinbao Culture and Hanshu Phase II Culture in the Bronze Age Cultural Chronological Sequence of the Nenjiang River Basin have been discovered in the Xiliu Songhua River Basin.
(Source: Guangming Daily, December 06, 2022, Edition 09)