Abstract 20 years ago I wrote a short article entitled: ‘The Archaeology of the Early Western Zhou culture and the Early Zhou enfeoffment’. That paper investigated the early Western Zhou enterprise of political enfeoffment in the Northeastern regions in light of archaeological ceramic assemblages (C.A. 1050-900 BCE). I found good overlap between the distribution of Western Zhou style ceramics and the location of known vassal states of the Zhou world, a find which consequently corroborated the narrative provided in the known historical texts. In the past two decades an astonishing amount of inscribed Western Zhou bronze vessels have been unearthed providing for superior evidence to study the dynasty's enfeoffment enterprise and, in turn, the dynasty's size and dominion. By discussing here this new data, particularly the evidence from the Western regions, my current paper can be seen as a continuation and supplement to the original article.

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西周地区的考古学视角

摘要20年前，我写了一篇短文，题为“西周早期文化与周初封建考古”。该论文根据考古陶瓷组合（CA 1050-900 BCE）调查了东北地区早期西周政治封建企业。我发现西周时期陶瓷的分布与周世诸侯国的位置之间有很好的重叠，因此这一发现证实了已知历史文献中的叙述。在过去的二十年中，出土了数量惊人的铭刻西周时期的青铜器皿，为研究王朝的封建制以及随后的王朝规模和统治地位提供了优越的证据。通过在这里讨论这些新数据，