Tanheli site is situated at Zhaizi Village,Huangcai Town,Ningxiang County,Hunan Province.It is located in the western basin of Huangcai which is along the upper Wei River,a branch of Xiang River.Through three excavations from 2001 to 2005,many important achievements have been brought out.The city of the Western Zhou is particularly noteworthy;it is the first time that city of this period has been disˉcovered in South China and therefore this discovery provides precious materials to the research on developˉment history of city as well as early country civilization of the South.The city site and its archaeological culture will establish steady base of the research on bronze group of Ningxiang,and definitely,drive the reˉsearch forward.The Tanheli Culture not only fills the archaeological blank of the Western Zhou in Hunan,but also sheds light on the study about the Shang and Zhou Dynasties culture of the whole south area.
