Dongzhao site is located in the north-west suburbs of Zhengzhou,which is in the core area of Xia and Shang culture.Dongzhao city ruins excavated provided the abundant archaeological material to research earlier civilizations,especially the civilizations of Xia Dynasty.The relics and archaeology institute of Zhengzhou city and the Department of Archaeology and Museology of Peking University excavated walls and ditches in the South-west area of the south wall of Xinzhai town in Dongzhao site in 2014 to 2015.This excavation confirms the formation of Longshan period,Xinzhaiperiod and Erlitou period to break the relationship directly,and it makes clarifications on the deposit structure of the Xinzhai settlement,and it shows the Archaeological culture system and the deposit structure of different periods.The new ideas and methods for this excavation is a helpful attempt for the development of Field Archaeology. |