STUDY OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN NORTH-WEST CHINA

1999年至2000年间，由日本国际科学研究助学金(A)资助的中国禹州考古发掘项目是中日两国的合作项目。1999年，我们发现了一位生活在东汉时期的地方官员及其家人的陵墓，墓葬于公元168年之前。陵墓长44米，深8.2米。墓墙是用烧过的砖建造的，表面有鱼和硬币的图案。这类烧砖在本省尚属首次发现。在主室中，我们在各自的木棺中发现了一具男性骨架和两具女性骨架。我们还在后屋发现了两具骷髅。每个骨架都有蓝色的玻璃耳环，蓝色的玻璃耳珠，白色的玉石鼻塞，白色的玉石蝉形嘴珠。由于这些头饰几乎是原封不动的，这些发现有助于我们了解公元2世纪中国西北地区东汉时期当地人使用头饰的方式。

During the years 1999-2000, the Yuangzhou Archaeological Excavations in China, funded by the Japanese Grant-in-Aid for International Scientific Research (A), was a Joint Project by Japan and China.During 1999, we discovered the Tomb of a local officer and his family who lived during the Eastern Han dynasty, and was buried before 168 A.D.The tomb measured 44 meters in length, and 8.2 meters in depth. The tomb wall was constructed of burnt bricks with fish and coin patterns on the surface. This is the first discovery of such burnt bricks in this Province.In the main chamber, we found one, male skeleton and two female skeletons each in their own wooden coffin. Also we found two skeletons in the back chamber. Each skeleton had blue glass earrings, blue glass eardrop beads, white jade stone nose plugs, and white jade stone cicada-shaped mouth beads. Because these adornments were almost untouched, these discoveries are helpful to our understanding of the way head ornaments were used in the Eastern Han Dynasty among local people in the 2nd century in north western China.