Abstract

AbstractIn March through December 2009, Anyang Archaeological Team of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences conducted excavation to the remains of the Shang Dynasty at Wangyukou Locus South. The excavation recovered roads, house foundations, wells, ash pits, sacrificial pits, burials, etc. The family cemetery represented by tombs M103 and M94 was the main achievement of this excavation: the bronzes unearthed from these two tombs bore inscriptions with the same name as that of the diviner “ ” in the oracle bone inscriptions. Therefore, this cemetery might be the family cemetery of diviner “ ”. These two tombs belonged to Phases II and III respectively, the different characteristics shown by which provided rare materials for the researches on the positions of the diviner groups and the changes of the diviner in the Yinxu Period.

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