Basic Information:

Author: Nanjing Museum, Xuzhou Museum, Museum of Pizhou

Publisher: Cultural Relics Publishing House

Publication time: 2013-10

Introduction:        

The site of Liang Wangcheng is located about 37 kilometers north of Pizhou City, along the Beijing-Hangzhou Dayun River. In 1959, the archaeological survey of the Nanjing Museum found the site. From the spring of 2004 to the beginning of 2009, the Nanjing Museum conducted six archeological excavations on the site, revealing an area of 9,505 square meters, and the excavation achieved significant gains:

1. Exposing a relatively complete site Prehistoric settlements of the Dawenkou cultural period, including residential areas, production areas and cemeteries. In particular, a large number of late Dawenkou cultural relics have been unearthed in the tombs. Both the characteristics of the artifacts and the burials are very distinctive, which has enriched the understanding of the Neolithic culture in the area and is of great significance.

2. A large number of cultural relics of the Western Zhou Dynasty were discovered, including tombs, animal pits, and many ash pits, which to some extent filled the archeological gap of the Shang and Zhou dynasties in the Huanghuai region.

    3. It was confirmed that Liang Wangcheng was a large-scale city site with an area of more than 1 million square meters in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and it was built according to the popular twin-city system in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The excavation report of Liang Wangcheng Site edited by Lin Liugen is the first volume of the excavation report of Liangwang City Site in Luzhou, which comprehensively covered the excavation and discovery of this site in the prehistoric period.