Based on the remains of Yueliangwan site of Guanghan city, Sichuan Province, this paper divides the remains into two periods.While the first one is believed to be from the alte tongshan Culture to the beginning of the Xia Dynasty, the second one is from the Yinxu I Culture to the Early Western Zhou Dynasty. The former one is named as the Baodun Culture and the late one belongs to the Shierqiao Culture or later.
In January 1996, two tombs of the Han period were discovered in the Shirenba quarter, Chengdu city. Of them Tomb M10 is a “凸”-shaped earth shaft with second-tier platforms and contains remains of the coffin but no clear evidence of the burial manner. The funeral objects belong to the types of pottery box, small jar, pot, eared cup, vessel cover, table mold and incense burner, bronze dui round vessel, basin,fu cauldron and ornament, iron handle, and bronze “wu zhu” coin. They suggest the tomb to be of the late Western Han period. Tomb M6 is a single-chambered brick grave with no coffin and human skeleton surviving. It yielded grave goods of the pottery seal, tomb figure, lamp, bowl, jar, fu, urn, pot, ding tripod and granary, stove and house molds, and bronze ornament and “da quan wu shi”coin. These indicate that the tomb belongs to the Xinmang period.
Jinsha is the first site in Western Chengdu city where Baodun culture the late Neolithic culture or culture of the Longshan Times has been found.It dates to 4200-4000 BP and shares many characteristics with those found from Yufu Walled enclosure in Wenjiang county and another contemporary walled enclosure in Pixian county.The findings from Jinsha site thus has provided important materials for the study of the Baodun culture and the relationships between the site and the surrounding walled enclosures of the Longshan
In July, 1996, the Chengdu Municipal Archaeological Team excavated six tombs in thenorthern suburb of Chengdu city. Of them M6 yielded no funeral objects. M3 and M4 are rectangularshafts and contain mainly pottery with ding tripods, fu cauldrons and dou stemmed vessels as typicalcontainers in common combinations, and also bronzes and irons in a small number. They are of the lateWarring States period. M2 and M5 are single-chambered rectangular brick tombs, and yielded largelypottery and also a small number of bronzes and irons. The pottery of M2 often occurs in the jar, fu, pot,basin and granary model combination, along with objects made exclusively for funeral use and a few “wuzhu” coins, and the tomb can be dated to the middle Eastern Han period as a synthetic analysis of thefinds shows. M5 yielded a certain proportion of terra-cotta tomb figures and animal, granary, stove, welland table models, which shows a date of late Eastern Han. M1 is a single-chambered square brick tombwith the funeral objects consisting of pottery vessels and terra-cotta tomb figures characteristic of theNorthern Song period, so it can be assigned to the late Northern Song.
