On October 22, 2018, the 2nd China Archaeological Congress was held in Chengdu, Sichuan. The “Archaeological Report on Eastern Henan in China,” hosted by Professor Tang Jigen and Jing Zhichun of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) Social Sciences Center won the Outstanding Research Achievement Award of the Chinese Archaeological Society (Golden Tripod Award).

The Golden Tripod Award is awarded by the Chinese Archaeological Society once every two years. It is one of the highest awards in the field of Chinese archaeological research. Its academic prestige is compared with the “Xia Nai Archaeological Award” named after the famous archaeologist Xia Nai. Prof. Tang Jigen has previously won the award.

The “Archaeological Report on Eastern Henan in China” was published by the Science Press in July 2017. It is a meticulous archaeological work report that comprehensively studies the archaeological achievements of the eastern part of Henan, China. The basic data is derived from the Chinese scholars and the Department of Anthropology of Harvard University. The field archaeological project of “In Search for the Early Shang Civilization in Shangqiu, China” was implemented.

Works of ancient landscape and environment of eastern region of scientific exploration, first described the Shangqiu area ancient human remains before the Han dynasty burial environment and settlement distribution patterns.

It established the eastern region of prehistoric period of Yangshao culture to Yueshi sequence of archaeological culture, and put forward the various cultures of the Yangshao, the Longshan, and the Yueshi in the region.

It was confirmed that the ancient ruins of Kingdom of Song was built in the Western Zhou Dynasty and confirmed that the city was used in the Spring and Autumn Period (including the Duke of Xiang of Song period) and the Warring States Period was used in the Han Dynasty.

The report also publishes for the first time the Song people’s cemeteries in Shangqiu area in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the civilian cemeteries in this area from the Warring States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty after the fall of the Song Dynasty. It proposed the combination and evolution sequence of the pottery funerary objects in the area during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Western Han Dynasty. The archaeological area of ​​China’s Yellow River flood area provides new information and lays an important foundation for further research.