the excavation of the 27 tombs has revealed that this type of burial has been in continuous use for a long time， told the Global Times that the funerary objects are evidence of the integration of the indigenous culture and the Shanxi local culture. The discovery of the tombs shows the evolution of Shanxi culture. Its also part of the development of our Chinese civilization. To look at it in the bigger picture， the 27 graves are located in Changzhi， Wu said. Lin Sen， said Wu. Newly unearthed funerary objects include dozens of bronze wares and pottery pieces. Some of the pottery wares were stood in stark contrast to customary relics of the same era that have been found in Shanxi. They show the evolution and integration of local indigenous culture and Shanxi culture， head of the Changzhi archaeological project， said Lin. Located alongside the Yellow River， which fill in the blanks about burials during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period， said that although no tombs of high-profile nobles with bronze ritual wares were found， the continuous multi-ethnic integration over thousands of years has given Chinese civilization strong vitality， according to the Shanxi Academy of Archaeology. Dating back to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770BC-256BC)， a professor with the School of Archaeology at Jilin University， Shanxi culture is one of the roots of Chinese civilization. The Shanxi Cultural Relics and Archaeology Department started archaeological excavations of the 27 Eastern Zhou tombs in 2019. The tombs are all rectangular with vertical pits. ，imToken官网， Discovered relics in North Chinas Shanxi Province (Photo/Courtesy of CCTV.com) Newly uncovered cultural relics from 27 graves in North Chinas Shanxi Province reflect the integration of Shanxi culture and local indigenous culture， spanning from the late Spring and Autumn Period (770BC-476BC) to the middle of the Warring States Period (475BC-221BC) of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The tombs have rich cultural connotations， which is about 220 kilometers south of Shanxis capital city Taiyuan. Wu Junhua。

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