武汉市黄陂区张西湾新石器时代城址发掘简报

2008年,湖北省文物考古研究所等单位对张西湾遗址进行了发掘,这是长江中游地区已知时代最晚、位置最偏东的一处新石器时代城址。城垣大致兴建于石家河文化早期,至石家河文化中、晚期可能已被废弃。此项发现为认识史前城址的发展过程、兴废动因及长江中游史前文明化进程等提供了重要资料。

The Excavation of the Neolithic City Site at Zhangxiwan in Huangpi District,Wuhan City

In 2008,Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other institutions excavated Zhangxiwan Site,which is the latest and the most east Neolithic city site in the middle reach of the Yangtze River known to date.Based on the features of the potteries unearthed in the city site,the cultural remains of this city site can be divided into three phases corresponding to the early,middle and late phases of Shijiahe Culture.The city walls began to be built roughly in the early phase of Shijiahe Culture,but it was abandoned in the middle or late phases of Shijiahe Culture.The discovery of Zhangxiwan City Site provided important materials and brand-new prospect for the understandings to the development processes of the prehistoric cities and the deep causes of their construction and abandonment and the process of the civilization during the prehistoric period in the middle reach of the Yangtze River.