Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology et al.
The Excavation of Burial M1034 at the Dahekou Cemetery of the
Western Zhou Dynasty in Yicheng, Shanxi..............................................04

Abstract： The Dahekou burial M1034 is a shaft-pit burial, in which a coffin and a burial chamber were inhumed. In the middle at the bottom of the burial, there is a pit with a sacrificed dog. The tomb occupant was placed with his head pointing to the west, who should be a male around eighteen. Burial artifacts up to 691 in total have been unearthed, which were made from bronze, pottery, jade, stone, shell, bone, lacquer and so on. The unearthed bronze wares include three tripods and two gui vessels. Bronze weapons include daggers, spears, swords and arrows. Only one pottery artifact, a vessel li, was unearthed. The burial should date to the early phase of the middle Western Zhou period. The tomb occupant should have been a middle-class elite of the Ba state in his life time.


Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology
The Excavation of Burial M41 at the Yancun Cemetery, Xianyang, Shaanxi.................................................................................................................31

Abstract：The Yancun cemetery is located in Dizhang town, Weicheng district, Xianyang, Shaanxi province. Forty-nine burials were excavated from 2017 to 2018. Burial M41 is a shaft-pit burial of double chambers. Bronze tripod and kettle, pottery jar, lacquer box and bronze mirrors were unearthed. Traces of textiles were identified around the lid of the bronze kettle, in which liquid was found. Scientific analysis has revealed the textile should be made from linen, and the liquid should be the zhong alcoholic beverage. Remains of sacrificial animals were found in the tunnel connecting the two chambers, the discovery of which has revealed the sacrificial ritual in the mortuary context. This burial should date to the very end of the Warring States period or the beginning of the Qin period.

Sun Zhouyong Shao Jing Di Nan
A Synthesis of the Archaeological Discovery and Research of the
Shimao Site.........................................................................................................39

Abstract： The Shimao site is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in China, which has triggered a series of retrospects into the origin and developments of Chinese civilizations and is of paramount value in the research of early states. This article summarizes the academic history of the Shimao-related field work and research, and introduces the latest archaeological and academic discoveries of Huangchengtai and the eastern gate of the outer wall. The authors also review the current research and raises prospects for further work, which will contribute greatly to an even brighter future of the Shimao archaeology.

Feng Shi
On Salt-Related Administration of the Ba State and the Jingtian
Field System of the Western Zhou Dynasty............................................63

Abstract：The bronze inscriptions on the Ba bronze, dating to the Western Zhou period, have revealed that the ruler of the Ba state was responsible for governing the salt late for the Western Zhou royal house, as well as guarding the salt lake. The inscriptions of the Babo gui vessel have recorded that Jingshu came to the Ba state to regulate different qualities of bittern and to assign Babo, the ruler of the Ba state, military missions. The inscriptions documented that Jingshu offered Babo two different types of grain from two land systems as army provisions. This article, combing related inscriptions, raises new interpretations of the land-related bureaucratic institutions.

Chen Jie
On the Location of Fan in the Zhou-Period Bronze Inscriptions and
the Eastern-Land Policy during the Early Zhou Dynasty....................71

Abstract：Fan and Fanyang in the Zhou period inscriptions refer to two distinct places: Fan is located in the eastern land, which might be in between today's Wen and Si in Shandong; Fanyang is located in the southern land in the Ru River valley, which should be around today's Xincai, Henan province. The bronze inscriptions of the  wei yan vessel record that the Zhou king ordered to go to Yan. The bronze inscriptions of the Ban gui vessel record that King Mu ordered Maogong to be in charge of the Fan, Shu and Chao regions. The two records should be both related to the government of the eastern land of the early Western Zhou period. The Wen River valley, significant in channeling the Central Plains government to expand to the east, was of great military importance, which is the key in the study of the history of the eastern expansion during the Shang and Zhou periods.