Abstract
From March 2010 to December 2011, the Anyang Archaeological Team of Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences conducted the third season of excavation at Liujiazhuang Locus North. In the uncovered area, the roads of the Yinxu Period formed a framework for the distribution of vestiges: pottery kilns, house foundations, wells, ash pits, sacrificial pits and burials of various periods were revealed flanking the roads. Of them the Yinxu Period remains may have been left over from a pottery-making workshop area. Moreover, the excavation of the rammed-earth house foundation F79 is the first case of this type on the Yinxu Site, and the discovery of a round bronze zun-vessel with ridges and an inscription from the hoard in its eastern courtyard is also the first record on the Yinxu Site. The sacrificial pit H77 yielding a legend-bearing bronze seal and the cemetery represented by tomb M70 must have been related to the “” clan. The excavation at this locus provided important materials for researches on the layout and production of the handicraft workshops in the Yinxu Period.
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