Urban Genesis in China : Multidisciplinary Study of Liangzhu Site Groups

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22251010
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAMURA Shinichi 金沢大学, 歴史言語文化学系, 教授 (80237403)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): UDATSU Tetsuro 宮崎大学, 農学部, 教授 (00253807) ; KANEHARA Masaaki 奈良教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (10335466) ; NAKAMURA Toshio 名古屋大学, 年代測定総合研究センター, 教授 (10135387) ; SUZUKI Mitsuo 東北大学, 学術資源研究公開センター, 名誉教授 (80111483) ; WATANABE Nobuya 中部大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (10365497) ; KOYANAGI Yoshiki 金沢大学, 国際文化資源学研究センター, 客員准教授 (40436671) ; QIN Xiaoli 金沢大学, 国際文化資源学研究センター, 特任准教授
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 考古学 / 先史学 / 中国 / 良渚文化 / 良渚遺跡群 / 学際研究 / 文明起源 / 都市形成

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Liangzhu enclosure is rectangular in shape and each side has two gates. The wall is accompanied by inner and outer moats, so it may have seemed like a ‘floating city’. Mojiaoshan platform, which is located at the center of the enclosure, is dated back to around 2900BC from the carbon-14 dating of the sandbags of vegetable matter piled near the bottom of the platform. To the west of Liangzhu site groups, some dam-like earthen structures have been found such as Ganggongling site and they are also dated back to 3000BC. It is clear they consisted complicated hydraulic facilities together with Tnagshan rampart.

Free Research Field

中国考古学