The Dongxiaogong cemetery lies about 600m to the south of Dongxiaogong village in Dongshahe town, Tengzhou city, Shandong province. Here, more than 1000 tombs have been discovered and above 340 of them have been excavated, the latter comprising more than 20 of the Zhou and more than 320 of the Western and Eastern Han. The Zhou tombs are all rectangular earth shafts, and havesecond-tier platforms of immature soil and coffins unclear in structure. The dead are singly buried in an extended supine position, with the head mostly pointing to 108-130°. The funeral objects are usually putunder or by the coffin, in a pit for grave goods, though some on the second-tier platform, in the combi-nation of the li tripod, yǖ vessel, dou stemmed vessel, jar and zhou saucer. The Han tombs featuremultiformity in shape and structure. There are the rectangular earth shaft, caved rectangular earth shaft, rectangular shaft with a single or multiple stone chambers, and stone-chambered pit with a slanting passage. Among the mortuary objects are the pottery jar, ding tripod, box, pot, square pot, yi ewer,zhou, zeng steamer, pan basin, ladle, cup, pigsty, toilet, stove and granary, the bronze mirror, ge dagger axe and coin, the iron sword, knife, ring-head knife and spoon, and the stone plug, bi disc andbead. Some graves yielded pictorial stones. The Zhou tombs goes back to the time from the late Western Zhou to the early and middle Spring and Autumn period, while the Han burials, to the temporal scope from the middle and late Western Han to the early Eastern Han.
