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英文题名：Some like it hot: Sichuan pepper (Zanthoxylum bungeanum) and other spices from a late Bronze Age kingdom (Chu State) in Hubei, China

作者：Sheng, Pengfei[1,2];Zhou, Hua[3];Liu, Jianye[4];Jiang, Hongen[5]

第一作者：Sheng, Pengfei

通讯作者：Jiang, H[1]

机构：[1]Fudan Univ, Inst Archaeol Sci, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China;[2]Fudan Univ, Dept Cultural Heritage & Museol, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China;[3]Beijing Union Univ, Coll Appl Arts & Sci, Beijing 100191, Peoples R China;[4]Jingzhou Museum, Jingzhou 434020, Hubei, Peoples R China;[5]Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, 19A Yuquan Rd, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China

第一机构：Fudan Univ, Inst Archaeol Sci, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China

通讯机构：[1]corresponding author), Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, 19A Yuquan Rd, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China.

年份：2020

卷号：12

期号：10

外文期刊名：ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000574247200001)，SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000574247200001)，A&HCI(收录号:WOS:000574247200001)】；

基金：The authors grateful for the helpful comments made by two anonymous reviewers that improved the quality of this manuscript. We are also grateful to the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant (2018M641902) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (41672171) for financial support. Finally, we are thankful to Dr. Michael Storozum for improving the manuscript with his commentary and English language editing.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Archaeobotany; Spice; Sichuan pepper; Ginger; Warring States; China

摘要：Located in the Jianghan plain in Hubei Province, China, the Wangshanqiao Tomb No. 1 is a large-sized burial belonging to a high-status male from the Chu State during Warring States period (475-221bc). Here, archaeobotanical studies were applied to the waterlogged plant remains discovered from that tomb dated to around 300bc. The recovery of a considerable number of well-preserved plant macrofossils suggests that the Chu kingdom noble classes used many plant species including spices such as Sichuan pepper (Zanthoxylum bungeanum), ginger (Zingiber officinale), and Chinese Angelica (Angelica sinensis), as well as fruits and nuts. We discuss the differences in spice usage between noble classes and genders in this southern central part of China from late Bronze to early Iron Ages by examining these data along with other extant archaeobotanical evidence recovered from 33 tombs during around 1100bctoad30. It indicates that the seeds of Sichuan pepper were more widely used in the noble burials of male and female from upper to lower classes than other spices in the southern central part of China from Warring States period (475-221bc) to Western Han dynasty (202bc-ad8).