Field archaeology is the foundation of the entire archaeological edifice. Zhao Hui, professor of the School of Archaeology and Museum of Peking University and chief expert of the "Chinese Civilization Source Exploration Project", has been engaged in field archaeology teaching and research for more than 30 years. A few days ago, Zhao Hui said in an interview with CCTV4's "Lu Jian Interview" program that the future research on the Shijiahe site is promising.
"When we have accumulated a certain amount of research on the appearance of relics and relics and sorted out their relationship with each other, we must further consider what the ancient society that created it was. This study is called the restoration of ancient societies. ”
Carrying out settlement archaeology, starting from the analysis of settlement structure, using a more macroscopic and pluralistic perspective, thinking about the social development seen on the site, opening up a new horizon for archaeologists to determine the coordinates of civilization. Shijiahe in Hubei Province is a typical settlement site, which is currently the largest prehistoric city site and settlement group in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, with the longest duration and the highest rank. The first time Zhao Hui came to Shijiahe was in 1989, "Shijiahe is a point in Peking University doing settlement archaeology. ”
"Mr. Yan Wenming paid attention to settlement archaeology relatively early." Zhao Hui recalled that Mr. Yan had found some houses with sections on the bottom of the Daheishan Island site on Shandong Long Island, which were well preserved, "He didn't want to leave at that time, but because it was winter, we came back again the next year to conduct archaeological excavations at the Beizhuang site on Shandong Long Island." Since then, Peking University has been thinking about how to carry out research on settlement morphology and how to do settlement archaeology in field work. After Beizhuang, we arrived at Shijiahe, which was also chosen by Mr. Yan. ”
Zhao Hui recalled that there was no good mapping equipment at that time, and a rudimentary compass was used, and everyone walked on the site to dig and measure, "using the compass to measure an angle, and then come back and draw it as a contour map." At first glance, this is a city. ”
Not only at that time, but in recent decades, the Shijiahe site has constantly surprised Chinese archaeologists. "For example, we found some urn coffins in Tanjialing a few years ago, and there were dozens of very beautiful jade objects inside. Another example is Sanfang Bay, where I just went last month, and found millions of pottery cups more than ten centimeters high. ”
In Shijiahe, the walls in some places are tens of meters wide, like a dam, standing on the ground, and Zhao Hui walks through there every day, "You probably never thought that it was a thing of two or three thousand years BC." Zhao Hui said that the future research on the Shijiahe site is promising.
Source: This article is excerpted from the CCTV4 WeChat public account article "Archaeologist Zhao Hui: Discovering the Secrets of Chinese Civilization in the Field", the content has been deleted
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