Research On The Remains In Eastern Henan Province During The Zhou Period

The remains of Eastern Henan Province during the Zhou Period,which were often overlooked in the regional archaeological researches,have been comprehensively organised and analyzed in this thesis.Several questions including the phases and ages of the primary remains,cultural factors,settlements and graves were discussed in the thesis.Its body consists of five parts: Introduction,Typological Analysis,Cultural Factors,Settlements and Graves and Conclusion.The results of the discussion can be concluded in four aspects.The primary remains could be classified into nine phases and the ninth could be further divided into three little phases: Early,Middle and Late.The age of each phase sequently refers to the early,middle and late period of the Western Zhou Period,Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period respectively.The cultural factors from the Zhou were the mainstream in this region during the Zhou Dynasty,which spread all over the region and lasted for all the period.Nevertheless,it experienced three different developing processes: mixed with the Yinxu cultural factors in the Early Western Zhou;dominated from the Middle Western Zhou to the Spring and Autumn Period;abated in the Warring State Period.Both the Chu cultural factors and the local cultural factors are the regional cultural factors of Eastern Henan Province,which were mainly separately discovered in the Zhoukou and Shangqiu district and thriving in the Warring State Period when the Zhou cultural factors were fading.The settlements inclined to locate in the flatter place nearby the rivers,which shows a distributional pattern that scattered in total but clustered in parts.No hierarchical relations have been discovered among the settlements in different scales when we focused on the whole region.However,three settlement clusters occurred in the west-northern,the west-southern and the eastern part of the Eastern Henan Province region,and hierarchical relations existed among the settlements in different sizes in the interior of each cluster.This settlement pattern suggests that there were three factions referred to three different groups of political entities,which probably related to the Zheng or Han,the Chu,and the Song or Wei from the Eastern Zhou Period.Most of the graves are small-size,and three cultural traditions can be distinguished by analyzing the combination of grave goods from them.The three cultural traditions separately originated from the Zhou,the Chu and the local culture.Besides,the M1 of Taiqinggong site dates to the late of the Early Western Zhou,and it does have no possibility that Weiziqi was its owner.