Hanta Hill lies at Longdong township,Baoxing county,in the upper Qingyi River valley of the mountainous area around the western Sichuan Basin,and is about 1, 600m above the sea level. On the hill, 65 stone-barrow eart...Hanta Hill lies at Longdong township,Baoxing county,in the upper Qingyi River valley of the mountainous area around the western Sichuan Basin,and is about 1, 600m above the sea level. On the hill, 65 stone-barrow earth-pit tombs of the Warring States period were excavated jointly by provincial, prefectural and county organs of archaeology and cultural relics in the fall of 1991. These graves share the same shape, direction and burial custom, belong to a common cemetery of the ancient Qingyi Qiang people that was one of the representatives of the cist burial culture and still remained at the stage of nomadic economy, and go back to the middle and late Warring States period. The grave goods consist primarily of pottery and bronzes, and number more than 400. The pottery is largely small-sized, sandy, hand-made, low-temperature-fired objects exclusively for funeral use. The bronzes include swords,spears,knives,arrowheads and other weapons, utensils of dally use, and ornaments. In addition, there are glass,cowries, coral and other articles from aborad. Statistical data show that roughly half of the funeral objects bear typical features of the Ba-Shu culture and the other half present strong characteristics of the cist burial culture. Artifact of both cultures not only co-exist in the same cemetery,but also occur almost in every tomb, which constitutes a rare phenomenum among archaeological discoveries in Sichuan. The unearthed material suggests that between the two ethnic groups were extensive exchanges and mutual influence in economy,technology,culture and ideology.展开更多
文摘Hanta Hill lies at Longdong township,Baoxing county,in the upper Qingyi River valley of the mountainous area around the western Sichuan Basin,and is about 1, 600m above the sea level. On the hill, 65 stone-barrow earth-pit tombs of the Warring States period were excavated jointly by provincial, prefectural and county organs of archaeology and cultural relics in the fall of 1991. These graves share the same shape, direction and burial custom, belong to a common cemetery of the ancient Qingyi Qiang people that was one of the representatives of the cist burial culture and still remained at the stage of nomadic economy, and go back to the middle and late Warring States period. The grave goods consist primarily of pottery and bronzes, and number more than 400. The pottery is largely small-sized, sandy, hand-made, low-temperature-fired objects exclusively for funeral use. The bronzes include swords,spears,knives,arrowheads and other weapons, utensils of dally use, and ornaments. In addition, there are glass,cowries, coral and other articles from aborad. Statistical data show that roughly half of the funeral objects bear typical features of the Ba-Shu culture and the other half present strong characteristics of the cist burial culture. Artifact of both cultures not only co-exist in the same cemetery,but also occur almost in every tomb, which constitutes a rare phenomenum among archaeological discoveries in Sichuan. The unearthed material suggests that between the two ethnic groups were extensive exchanges and mutual influence in economy,technology,culture and ideology.
