A Study Of Body Adornments From Lingjiatan Site

The Lingjiatan Site locates in Hanshan County, Anhui Province. According to the C14Dating, the Site of the era has been about5300years until now. The total area of the Lingjiatan Site are at about600thousand square meters. There are approximately fourteen thousand square meters area of existing cemeteries, after five times of excavating since the year of1987.1998.2000.2007. the first three times excavation approximately2,150square meters, the last two times were just small-scale excavations, about750square meters.44burials and one Altar,3sacrificial pits, and4stone rings, etc., were found in the excavation of the first three excavations, of which44burials unearthed a large number of funeral objects, mainly were jade ware. The last two excavations were mainly burial traces,24burials were discovered, unearthed a large number of exquisite jade, of which, especially in the5th excavation of the07M23burial means great significance, funerary jade, stone implements, pottery, etc. up to330pieces of items, including a combination of jade tortoise in set. jade chop, divination tool, a large jade pig-shaped were also found at the top of the filling soil place, these findings filled much blank of the academic field. The first three excavation results of Lingjiatan site are mainly for the study content in this article.Jade unearthed in the Lingjiatan Site are not only at a big quantity, but beautifully produced in a wide range of categories. Some of them are very peculiar; it tells very rich cultural connotations. This paper attempts to analyze the Lingjiatan civilization process through body adornment conception, the using of archaeological typology, stratigraphy and comprehensive statistical analysis methods, as well as a comprehensive survey including category and function on unearthed body decorations of the Lingjiatan Site.Body adornments are attached to the top of the body or clothes, which stands for a certain aesthetic taste or etiquette norms of self-cultivation. Among those big number of jade products unearthed in the Lingjiatan site, it contains huang磺,jue玦,bracelet镯,huan环,bi璧,jade tube管,jade hat ornament冠状饰,comb backs梳背and so on, from the different wearing way. it is divided into pull-on type, going-through body type and wearing type. Among them, the pull-on type jewelry was highly developed. During the Lingjiatan period, body adornments were mostly for the neck, wrist, and had gone through the change process of from decorative majority huang璜to circular device圆形器that is, bracelets镯,huan环,bi璧.Combination of other types of funeral objects in those burials, large micro-glimpse, through the Lingjiatan body adornments, a combination of selection, as well as body decorations category quantity increase or decrease, trying to discover the social structure stratification and the change in the status of society members and Lingjiatan people rise or fall, trying to look for this prehistoric civilizations once lost in this piece of earth.