2021XYH13 location
2021XYH13 human bones
H13 profile view
The most important discovery in the 2021 Excavation of the Yincun site was ash pit H13, in which multiple human bones were found and died unnaturally.
Human bones are arranged irregularly, similar to being discarded haphazardly in a ash pit. Ash pit H13 opens under H12 and is superimposed by H12. The upper mouth of the ash pit is 1.86 meters in diameter, the bottom diameter is 2.35 meters, and the depth is 1.7 meters. Its soil color is gray-black clay, and the soil is more compact. The plan is oval in shape, with a pocket-shaped pit with a collapse on the east side of the pit wall. And 1 meter below the mouth of the pit to see human bones. There are 12 human bones exposed, of which nine are stacked on the west side of the pit, three of which are prostrate burial, and the rest are sideways, with different head orientations and irregularities. On the north side of the pit wall, there are two human bones, both of which are buried in a sideways burial style. And one faces south and one faces north. There is a separately placed human skeleton at the wall of the pit in the southeast corner. The man's bones were on the raw soil after the collapse of the ash pit, and he was bent on his back, facing upwards, and his lower limbs were extended into the niches on the south wall of the pit. And one of the human bones in the pit has obvious signs of binding, suspected of being thrown into it after being killed.
Although there are also human bone pits in the sites near the Xinding Basin in Shanxi, the number of human bones is small, which is significantly different from the H13 site of Yincun, so the nature of H13 needs to be explored in depth.
The ruins of Yin Village are located on the terrace on the north bank of the Yunzhong River about 50 meters northwest of Yin Village, Xulai Street, Xinfu District, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, and the site is bordered by the Yunzhong River in the south and Jinyin Mountain in the north. It is adjacent to the Yincun residential area in the southeast, and the seasonal river that flows into the Yunzhong River through the mouth of the Hujia'an in the northwest. The site is one of the important Longshan to Xia Shang period sites in the Xinzhou area. Today,000 square meters are distributed in an area of about 500,000 square meters.
In 2018, ash pits were also found at the Jingbian Temple Liang site.
Most of the ash pits at the Temple Liang site are circular bags, excavated regularly, with a depth of more than 1.5 meters, and some as deep as 3 meters, distributed around the site, which may be a storage pit for the relevant site. Among them, the phenomenon of "burying people in ash pits" was found in two ash pits. H26 found 3 children's skeletons, two of which were leaning straight and the other was scattered, with obvious dismemberment. An adult male skeleton was found in H37, with a flexed limb on his side, facing the pit wall, and a fracture mark on the humerus of his left arm. The human bones in these two ash pits are clearly different from the burial methods in normal tombs, which are abnormal burials.
Archaeological excavations at the Lijia Site in Pingdu Sanbu, Qingdao In 2021, many cases of unnatural deaths were found in ash pits, wells, and silt layers. The death posture appears in the posture of leaning back, leaning over, curling up, and binding, and the specific cause of death is unknown. The sheer number of unnatural deaths suggests that the region has experienced intense internal struggles or wars.