The Gongjiawan site,about 1200m2, locates at Chafang township of Danfeng county. According to the stratigraphical deposits and the characteristics of the cultural relics,Gongjiawan site can be mainly divided into three phases. The first phase is Yangshao Culture. The second is early period of Longshan Culture,which is discovered in the uper reaches of Danjing River for the first time,the discovery fills an important gap in developing alignment of archaeological cultures in this region. The third belongs to the middle-late era of the Western Zhou,which is different from that of the corresponding period of Guanzhong district, while is closed to that of Chu culture of the corresponding period of Hubei Province. The discovery is important for us to explore the distribution of Chu culture and cultural rela- tion between Western Zhou and Chu at that time.
This article analyses faunal remains of the Longshan period unearthed from the 1990 excavation at the Kangjia site in Lintong, Shaanxi. It attempts to reconstruct environmental conditions, subsistence economy, ritual activities, regional interaction, and social organisation. High percentage of bones from water buffalo, sheep or goat indicates regional interactions in economic aspect; turtle shells used in ritual context suggest the existence of long-distance exchange of ritual paraphernalia; certain depositional process of a large quantity of animal bones implies that ritual feasting may have become a part of political strategy then.
