1987年深秋,我奉命前往永顺老司城对土司墓葬的保护状况进行调查。行走在一路崎岖、尘土飞扬的村道途,我联想着那隐藏在万山荆棘中的每一处遗存单位与一组群体的内在关系,它们都扮演着什么样的角色……但老司城遗址进入严格科学意义上的考古发掘是从上世纪90年代中叶开始的。1995年,刚援藏回来的湖南省考古研究所研究员柴焕波凭着对少数民族历史文化的热爱,超出了当时国内普遍热衷于先秦以前考古的范 In the late autumn of 1987, I was ordered to investigate the protection of the Tusi tombs at the Old City of Yongshun. Walking along the rugged, dusty village road, I think of the internal relations of a relics unit hidden in the brambles of the hills with a group of groups, all of which play the same role ... But the site of Laochengcheng Archeological excavations entering the strict scientific sense started in the mid-1990s. In 1995, Chai Huanbo, a researcher at Hunan Institute of Archeology who just came back to Tibet, relied on the love of the history and culture of ethnic minorities and exceeded the prevalent standard of archeology before Qin Dynasty