Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology
The survey of the settlement area of the Laoniupo site....................................04

Abstract：In order to confirm the settlement area and distribution, the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of
Archaeology resurveyed the Laoniupo site. The survey was guided by the settlement functional zone method,
recording distribution patterns of different types of relics and remains. The settlement area has been
confirmed, which has paved the foundation for exploring the transformation, internal structure and functional
zones of the Laoniupo site.

Zhengzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
The Excavation at the Gaozhuang site in Zhengzhou of the late
Shang period.............................................................................................................11

Abstract：From January to July 2016, the Zhengzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
excavated at the Gaozhuang site, Zhengzhou. Ash pits, house foundations, tombs and a pottery kiln have been
unearthed, which date to the late Shang period. The bronze artifacts from the mortuary context bear the
inscription She舌, which indicates that the Gaozhuang site should have been a She Clan settlement of the
late Shang Period. The remains of the late Shang period at Gaozhuang could be divided into three stages,
which is accord with the development of the Yinxu culture.

Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
The excavation of a Han-dynasty stone relief burial at Jinshanzhai,
Suzhou, Anhui Province.......................................................................................25

Abstract：The Jinshanzhai stone-relief tomb is located at Jinshanzhai village, Suzhou City, Anhui Province.
From April to May, 2019, the Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the Suzhou City
Museum and the Suzhou City Bureau of Cultural Relics conducted a salvage excavation. The tomb M1 is of
the“中”structure, which consists of a tomb passage, a corridor, a middle chamber, an eastern chamber, an
western chamber and a chamber in the back. More than 10 artifacts, 12 relief stones with 14 portraits were
unearthed. This excavation contributes greatly to the study of stone-relief tombs of the Han period in this area.

Xi’an Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics Preservation and
Archaeology
The excavation of the Xiangjisi cemetery in Xi’an City of the Sixteen
Kingdoms period......................................................................................................34

Abstract：In 2017, the Xi’an Institute of Cultural Relics Protection and Archaeology excavated seven tombs
of the Sixteen Kingdoms period in the north of Xiangjisi Village at Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. The tombs
were all of the shaft-pit structure, each with a slope path. 65 pieces (groups) of pottery, copper, iron wares
and so on were unearthed. The cemetery should be of a medium-size to large family in the period of Sixteen
Kingdoms, which provides important information for the study of funeral customs then.

ZHAO Yanan and LIU Li
On the brewing technique of the Yangshao culture in the Longdong
area.....................................................................................................................49

Abstract：Based on the analysis of microfossil remains on pottery, recent researches have revealed the
evidence of alcohol making in several sites of the Yangshao Culture. In order to learn the prevalence of
alcohol production and the diversity of brewing techniques of the Yangshao Culture, this study employs
residue analysis on jiandiping amphorae, pingdiping amphora and painted pottery hu pot from the Dadiwan
site, Qin’an, expanding the study area to eastern Gansu. Microfossil assemblage (including starch granules,
phytoliths, yeasts and molds) related to brewing process are detected in all three vessel types, indicate that
three brewing techniques were practiced in Dadiwan: using malted cereals, using qu starter and using both of
them. The main ingredients were wild or domesticated cereals identifiable as foxtail millet, broomcorn millet,
Job’s tears and Triticeae seeds. Acorn, snake gourd root, ginger and some unidentified tubers also were
utilized occasionally. These results for the first time shed light on the alcohol production in eastern Gansu
and add new evidence to drinking culture of Yangshao people. Combined with previous study results, it
suggests that Yangshao people of upper and middle Yellow River region, who engaged in intensive millet
farming subsistence, shared the similar brewing techniques, which might have involved technical
communication. In addition, the clue of painted pottery hu pot as brewing vessel is worthy of attention. This
phenomenon may provide new perspectives to understand sociocultural change in eastern Gansu at this time.

LIU Yifang and Zhang Dong
A retrospect into the plan of the inner city of the Zhengzhou Shang
City......................................................................................................................64

Abstract：The inner city was the core functional area in the Zhengzhou Shang City. Its urban layout was
profoundly influenced by the successive urbanization process. The northeastern part of the inner city during
the early Shang period became the suburb of the city since the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, the Shang
remains there were well preserved. However, those located in the old Zhengzhou city, where has long been an
urban area, were heavily damaged. Rammed-earth foundation of the early Shang period has come to light in
the northern zone. The palatial center was located in the middle of either the Yanshi Shang City or the
Huanbei Shang City, the principle of which might be the same with the plan of the Zhengzhou Shang City.

TIAN Jianwen
The identification of the Baidi burials in southern Lyuliang.......................................73

Abstract：Burial M29 and Burial M30 of the Wayaopo cemetery in Xixian County of Shanxi Province are two
successive tombs around the Spring and Autumn Period. The ethnicity of the two tomb occupants should be
Baidi. Their date coincides with the period from the“battle of Ji”in 627 BC to the joint expedition of the Jin
army and the Di army towards Qin in 600 BC. One of the two tomb occupants may have been the king
Baidizi captured during the“battle of Ji.”Burials M4 and M6 of the Jiafushan cemetery in Xiangning were
around the same time with M30 and M29, but the tomb occupants were lower in rank, who should have been
middle-level elites of Baidi. Thereafter, the typical Jin culture reached the the southern Lyuliang.