The Analysis Of Macrobotanical At The City Site Of The Zhu State And Donggucheng Site In 2017

Paleoethnobotany,as an important part of archaeology,plays an important role in the task of restoring the ancient human life style and explaining the cultural development process.As the focus of archaeological work in the historical period,urban archaeology needs to be enriched with plant remains.This paper,based on the great remains of plants discovered in the ruins of the former city of Zhu site and Donggucheng site in 2017,observes the interaction between city residents and plants from the perspective of the city.In 2017,Zhu state site revealed the carbonized seeds of seven crops,including millet,wheat,Zhu,soybean,mung bean,adzuki bean and rice,of which the number of millet,Zhu,wheat and soybean is large,while the number of Zhu,mung bean and rice is small.Weeds include 9 families and 12 species/genera of poaceae,leguminosae,chenopodiaceae and polygonaceae.At the Donggucheng site,six crops including millet,wheat,millet,rice,soybean and adzuki bean were found,among which millet was the most and rice the least.Weeds include 8 families and 15 species/genera,including poaceae,leguminosae,chenopodiaceae and polygonaceae.Through the analysis of plant remains,we can learn that in 2017,the structure of crops in the former city of Zhu,the capital of the state of Zhu,cHanged little from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the Han Dynasty,and the food mix of residents in the city was relatively stable.Millet occupied the dominant position.Although the percentage of wheat quantity gradually decreased,it still showed a trend of expansion.Other crops were in a subordinate position.Donggucheng site Eastern Zhou Dynasty to Han Dynasty basically stable crop species,millet has always been a major food,wheat has experienced a short-lived contraction during the warring states period in the Han Dynasty showed a larger rebound trend,the use of millet,soybean,adzuki bean,rice has been far less millet,wheat,and supplement food crops,is likely to be associated with crop rotation,trade,etc.Finally,through the plant to look at the site of functional areas,we can see that the Eastern Zhou period.The City site of the Zhu state cultural relics more then camp officer metallurgy area,we have found is related to metallurgy ruins,unearthed the remains of plants may be associated with the builders of food,in the Han Dynasty palace zone has showed a lower density,plants and weeds represents the partners for the strict control of the region.As a discontinuous cemetery of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty,the Donggucheng site also brought about frequent human activities.We have discovered that legumes,which may be used as the feed of horses,are greatly different in their extant distribution from the former capital of the Zhu state,which represents more loose control and more frequent human activities.The comparison between the smelting areas leads us to the.possible use of different fuels for smelting.The comparison of weed characteristics between sites allows us to see the difference between different management methods:downtown center and downtown edge.Finally,we take the plant remains in the site as the center to reflect the level of agricultural development,and analyze the motivation of agricultural development.The expansion of wheat is closely related to the promotion of agricultural production tools and stone mills.Despite the uncertainties,we hope that the discovery of plant remains will provide more explanations for urban development at that time.