Wang Shaoqing, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhoukou Municipal Party Committee and director of the Propaganda Department, and Liang Jiansong, vice mayor, visited the newly excavated artifacts
On the morning of December 21, the Pingliangtai Site Museum displayed the latest archaeological excavation results to the outside world for the first time. In the past six months, the museum has selected underground archaeological excavations, cleared out more than 170 ancient tombs, and unearthed more than 1,000 artifacts.
Copper pots, copper pots, etc. unearthed in November
According to Zhu Shuzheng, an associate researcher at the Henan Institute of Archaeology, the archaeological work is part of the preparatory work for the preliminary construction of the Pingliangtai National Archaeological Site Park, and preliminary underground archaeological excavations will be carried out outside the Pingliangtai site to select the location of the museum to be built in the future. Since the start of archaeological excavations in August this year, a total of more than 170 ancient tombs have been cleared out by archaeology, and more than 1,000 pieces of various artifacts have been excavated, among which the ancient tombs cleaned out are from the Warring States Period and the Han and Tang Dynasties, of which the Han Dynasty tombs are the most numerous, and the cultural layers are superimposed. From the perspective of the ancient tombs and their funerary products, there are clay pots, bronzes, iron swords, jade, wooden lacquerware, copper mirrors, etc., many utensils are exquisitely crafted, these funerary products are not owned by ordinary people's families, mostly symbols of aristocratic status, which is of great value for the study of the thick history and culture of Huaiyang District.
At present, various archaeological excavations are still underway.
(Contributed by cyberspace office of Huaiyang District Committee of Zhoukou City)
Source: China Search