Tomb No.22 in Area Ⅱ of the Taosi walled-town, Xiangfen, Shanxi, was excavated in 2002. The tomb is 5m long, 3.65m wide and 7m deep. It is dated to the middle Taosi period (2100-2000BC), Although it was destroyed in the late Taosi period, 72 funeral objects remain in the tomb pit and coves, including eight painted pottery vessels, 18 jades, 25 lacquered articles, eight groups of bone arrowheads, two baskets, ten pigs'skeletons, and one huge boar mandible. The discovery of this rich tomb helps us to understand the nature of the walled-town of the middle Taosi period.
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