guangfulin ancient culture site [Shanghai]

The Guangfulin remains found in 1959 , as far back as the beginning of the sixties, having tried digging the work, however, it is a thing in recent years to make great progress. The wide site of rich forest lies 6 kilometers in the northwest of Songjiang of Shanghai.
　　
The archaeological department of Shanghai Museum of Art and History explores in the wide site of rich forest in an all-round way in recent years, thus there is new understanding to the distribution range of the site, it exceeds 100 to discover, there is distribution of the ancient relic in range of 000 square meters , has confirmed the area of site tentatively. Explore the site especially on the basis of exploring , has made the new achievement. Archaeological worker find the Neolithic Age good small piece of land surrounded by water culture artificial to pile soil build sets of shape graveyard and 23 graves that build at first. In exploring the range, the good small piece of land surrounded by water is divided into two tomb districts cultural graveyard, make stone as the boundry on the edge of the tomb district. All tomb burial articles take pottery container as the core, have piece insert sand three of red pottery carry , shed pot among them, the model is novel and unique, is the new device shape found in the culture of good small piece of land surrounded by water for the first time. Have another pieces of colored drawing or pattern pairs of nose pot paint red color ask for line is relatively rare at dark clothing. Most grave bury stone implement together still, specific grave have , spin ship bury together. A noteworthy one have a few grave bury jade article together still, kind have Yuhuan, jade toper device and jade in charge of. Having found the phenomenon of misplacing of obvious person's bone in some graves, if the skull of the tomb is inverted on the 3rd, occipital bone old hole up, put one vertebra by the skull, basin bone separate, the rib is in disorder. People bone misplace, indicate, store a special funeral and interment way in seriously. Have also found while exploring the culture of good small piece of land surrounded by water regards stone as the sign on tombs. Regarding stone as the grave mark is obviously for the grave position of identification , in case that after bury tomb destroy bury first tomb,the more important thing is it benefit formerly carry on tomb of grandfather by activities sacrificial. Good small piece of land surrounded by water sacrificial activity of cultural graveyard for two form, one to become house body incomplete yuan to braise in soy sauce soil move to the graveyard already burn ,, put in the firewood firewood, then fire the fire and burn . It is to make a fire that another kind offers sacrifices to the form , a lot of small black dust has stayed on the graveyard. Two form these so as to make a fire as offer sacrifices to the means , i.e. what is called " burn and hold a memorial ceremony for ".
　　
It is the culture remains of one later period for the Neolithic Age of new discovery that another one explored in Guangfulin is reaped importantly, it different from the past to distribute all other culture to this area. Culture its characteristic whether pottery line decorated with rope line, baskets of line, check line, vein line, oblique line line, vertical stripe and add, pile line,etc., pottery kind have, hang down belly kettle shape pot, shallow dish detailed high handle beans, get urn,etc. direct, this kind is offered as a gift and stored in Tai Hu area of the ring to find , very novel and special for the first time, can be rated as the Guangfulin.

Through can relatively think this culture remains mainly come from the Wang 's type distributed in east area of Henan Provincing. Wide rich forest culture discovery of remains for probe into before the 4000 year scope of activities of ethnicity and migrate, ring Tai Hu cultural changes of area offer precious new material very. In the wide site of rich forest , have found the abundant remains of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty - Han Dynasty , has found the construction material of this period and bronze tool of production, fully prove the wide rich forest is in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty - It was very important and gathering to fall with considerable scale and large-scaly in a place in Han Dynasty. In addition return the culture remains of the period of Western Zhou Dynasty of new discovery , fill in the blank on the site times of Guangfulin.