The Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Dali Municipal Museum carried out two seasons of excavation in the Dafengle cemetery at Fengyi Town, Dali City. They excavated 966 tombs of cr...The Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Dali Municipal Museum carried out two seasons of excavation in the Dafengle cemetery at Fengyi Town, Dali City. They excavated 966 tombs of cremation and 21 burials in the ground. The former are round or oval,while the latter are rectangular earth shafts. The coffins are largely pottery, porcelain and bronze jars,and pottery vats and basins occur in very a few cases with the former used as double-vat coffins and the latter as coffin covers. Most of the funeral objects are pottery, and porcelain, irons and bronzes were also yielded. The tombs fall into three phases. The first phase embraces exclusively tombs of cremation and is represented by jars of Type A, with the remains of the dead buried in single-jar coffins and accompanied by rare grave goods. They go back to the time from the late Tang to the Early Northern Song period. The second phase comprises also tombs of cremation, and features the increase of coffin types and the emergence of double-jar coffins. They are dated to the time from the final stage of the Northern Song through the Yuan Dynasty. The third phase contain tombs of cremation, and burials in the ground occur at the middle stage. The former feature variety in coffin, the popularity of double-jar coffins and the appearance of burials in three or four combined jars. They can be assigned to the final stage of the Ming period.展开更多
文摘The Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Dali Municipal Museum carried out two seasons of excavation in the Dafengle cemetery at Fengyi Town, Dali City. They excavated 966 tombs of cremation and 21 burials in the ground. The former are round or oval,while the latter are rectangular earth shafts. The coffins are largely pottery, porcelain and bronze jars,and pottery vats and basins occur in very a few cases with the former used as double-vat coffins and the latter as coffin covers. Most of the funeral objects are pottery, and porcelain, irons and bronzes were also yielded. The tombs fall into three phases. The first phase embraces exclusively tombs of cremation and is represented by jars of Type A, with the remains of the dead buried in single-jar coffins and accompanied by rare grave goods. They go back to the time from the late Tang to the Early Northern Song period. The second phase comprises also tombs of cremation, and features the increase of coffin types and the emergence of double-jar coffins. They are dated to the time from the final stage of the Northern Song through the Yuan Dynasty. The third phase contain tombs of cremation, and burials in the ground occur at the middle stage. The former feature variety in coffin, the popularity of double-jar coffins and the appearance of burials in three or four combined jars. They can be assigned to the final stage of the Ming period.
