英文摘要 |
The 1936 excavation at the village of Dasikong by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (hereafter IHP), was conducted under the direction of Kao Ch'ü-hsün during the 14th season of the IHP Anyang campaign. The excavation covered an area of 1100 m2 and yielded 30 trash pits and 94 burials, mostly from the Shang and Eastern Zhou periods. Other important finds were bronze foundry remains and waste, as well as processed raw materials from bone and antler working of the Shang period. The nearly completed manuscript of the Dasikong site report was found only after Kao's passing in 1991, and eventually published in 2008. Due to the early date at which the manuscript was written, the more recent archaeological data uncovered at Anyang by the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (hereafter IA) were not included in the original report. This paper attempts to place finds from the 1936 IHP excavation within the context of the current state of research in Anyang archaeology. It begins with a review of the Anyang pottery chronology and summarizes excavations in the vicinity of the Dasikong village conducted by IA. It shows that IHP's excavation at Dasikong is in the vicinity of a large Shang period bone workshop excavated by IA in the 1950s and 1960s, and the scattered debris for bone and antler working is probably from the fringe of the bone workshop. On the other hand, despite the fact that only a small number of foundry remains were found during the IHP excavation, there are no parallel finds of bronze casting activities in the various IA soundings. A recent comprehensive study of Eastern Zhou burials with pottery furnishings in the Central Plains region also provides the spatial-temporal framework for fine-tuning the dates of the Eastern Zhou burials excavated by Kao. |