Abstract:Runlou cemetery, in Zhengyang County, Henan Province, of late Shang dynasty period is an important cemetery in Southern territory of Shang dynasty. Bronze artifacts unearthed here are similar with those unearthed from Yinxu site. It is significant to study spreading way of bronze technology and transforming path of raw material in Late Shang Dynasty through investigation on manufacture technoloty and raw material. The microstructure and composition of bronze artifacts unearthed from Runlou cemetery were investigated by SEM-EDS. The results indicate that bronze vessels of Runlou cemetery have high content of tin, moreover, the highly radioactive lead isotope shows that bronze artifacts of Runlou has the same characteristics with those unearthed from several sites in late Shang dynasty.