In March through June 2010, new coring and excavations were conducted to the Daxinzhuang Site in Jinan City , by which a new cemetery from the later stage of the early phase of the Shang Dynasty to the later phase of the Shang Dynasty was recovered. Among the excavated tombs, Tomb No. 139 is the largest one: it is an earthen shaft tomb with tiers around the bottom, on which human victims were found. The burial furniture was one coffin and one outer coffin, beneath which waist pit was recovered. Plenty of grave goods were unearthed from this tomb, including large-sized bronzes, jades and stone implements. The scale, burial furniture, human victims and grave goods of this tomb all reflected that Tomb No. 139 was a rare high-ranked elite tomb of the Erligang Period.
