The excavation of the burial M8 at the Zhoujiazhai Cemetery in Suizhou, Hubei: Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Archaeological Team of Zengdu District, Suizhou City.

The burial M8 excavated at the Zhoujiazhai Cemetery in Suizhou City, Hubei Province in 2014 was a vertical earthen shaft pit burial with one coffin chamber and one coffin. The grave goods unearthed from this burial were mainly lacquered and wooden wares, including flask, eared cup, lian-cosmetic case, figurines, bi-disc, ladder-shaped object, T-shaped object, liubo-game board, bamboo case, etc. The occupant of this burial is estimated to be a lower-ranking official in the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. In the bamboo case unearthed from the burial, ink-written "gaodishu (letter informing the underground)" on wooden tablets are found, and hundreds of bamboo slips with text of" rishu (almanac) " were also unearthed, which are significantly meaningful for the studies on the rishu of the Qin and Han Dynasties and the date-selecting system in ancient China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]