This site is located at Gejiazhuang village of Nandaguo township of Qiaoxi district in the southern suburb of Xingtai city, Hebei province, in the plain at the eastern foot of the Taihang Mountains. Archaeological survey and trial excavation were carried out in the northern area of the site in October-December, 1998, which resulted in the discovery of ash-pits, storage pits, pottery-making kilns and plentiful pottery, stone, bone and shell objects. The cultural remains of the site can be divided into three periods each with two developmental stages. The first period belongs to the predynastic Shang culture; the second to the mid Shang culture, its date being somewhat later than the Baijiazhuang period of the upper Erligang culture and earlier than the Yinxu Ⅰ culture; the third to the late Shang culture, its first stage corresponding to the Yinxu Ⅰ culture, and its second stage showing cultural features close to those of the Yinxu Ⅱ culture. The excavation provides important material for studying the origin of the predynastic Shang culture and the periodization of the Shang's history.
This tomb is located north of Gejiazhuang village of Nandaguo township in the southwest of Xingtai city, Hebei, and was excavated in November 1993 to May 1994. It is a knife-shaped earth shaft. Although it was seriously robbed in ancient times, still a batch of important funeral objects was unearthed from the tomb pit. Among them are bronzes, jade and stone artifacts, lacquer-, bone-and shell-ware, and gold- and silver-covered articles, of which the bronzes include vessel details, weapons,chariot fittings, tools and musical instruments. Judged by its grave goods and inscriptions, the tomb must go back to the turn from the Spring-and-Autumn to the Warring States period. The chamber and coffin structure, funeral objects and size of the tomb suggest that the tomb-owner might have been an important minister of the Jin state.
