Hengzhen site

Hengzhen site

Hengzhen site is located in the west of Hengshang village, Fushui Town, Huayin City, Shaanxi Province. The site covers an area of about 120000 square meters. After three excavations by the archaeological team, it is confirmed that it is an ancient cultural site overlapped by Yangshao culture and Longshan culture. Hengzhen site is listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. On May 25, 2006, hengzhen site, as an ancient Neolithic site, was approved by the State Council to be listed in the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

unearthed relic

280 pieces of pottery from Yangshao culture period were unearthed from the site. Among them, there are eating utensils, bowls, basins, plates, cups, etc.; there are drinking utensils, small mouth pointed bottom bottles; there are containers, pottery pots, etc. These vessels are beautiful in shape, and some of them are painted with colorful geometric patterns. The colors are harmonious, simple and beautiful, which fully shows the technological characteristics of the painted pottery in the Yangshao culture period.

783 pieces of pottery from the Longshan culture period were unearthed from the site. There are cooking utensils, chopsticks, eating utensils, pots, one ear cans, two ear cans, etc. And unearthed bone, mussel, stone. The artifacts can be divided into early and late periods. The early double-edged stone knives are rare among the unearthed stone tools, which reflects that the technology of making stone tools in the Longshan culture period has gradually improved, and also shows that the level of productivity at that time has a greater degree of development than that in the Yangshao culture period, and bone and clam ware have been widely used. The early cultural relics of Longshan Culture in the site are similar to Miaodigou phase II culture, and should belong to Miaodigou phase II culture of Longshan culture.

In the hengzhen site, 5 urn coffins, 24 other ancient tombs and 130 human skeletons were excavated. The five urn coffins in Yangshao period were used to bury children's bodies in matriarchal clan society, and the coffins were all near the mother's house; the tombs in Longshan culture period were mostly combined tombs. According to the analysis of the posture of the male in the right side and the female in the left side, the social status of the women at that time had obviously declined, and the concept of men being superior to women had initially formed.

Explore meaning

The excavation of hengzhen site, especially the discovery of urn coffin burial and joint burial group, provides a lot of material materials for the study of the social development of the clan and the family organization at that time in the Neolithic age.

Address: Hengshang village, Fushui Town, Huayin City, Shaanxi Province, 714206

Longitude: 109.95179

Latitude: 34.54479

Chinese PinYin : Heng Zhen Yi Zhi