Recently, Lijiang, Yunnan. Dagu Township, about 3 kilometers away from the Jinsha River, is the Capital Village. Some sarcophagi were found when the stadium was built for the Capital Middle School. According to Min Rui, a cultural relic researcher at the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the tombs discovered by the Weidu Group in the Toutai Village Committee of Daju Township basically showed various types of tombs, including square pit tombs, round pit tombs, and vertical pits. Tomb, sarcophagus tomb, urn coffin burial. The burial style is more complicated, with the characteristics of upside-down limbs, straight limbs, sideways curved limbs, and joint burial of husband and wife. The tombs are closely arranged, and many tombs are in a stacking relationship, accumulated in a way of breaking the stack, and the deepest tombs are the oldest. According to investigations by archaeologists, many sarcophagi have multiple human bones. A total of 19 human bones have been cleared from the four-story tomb on one side. However, whether they are used as a burial or a second burial, and their relationship with the tomb owner is still being confirmed. There are burial objects on each floor of the tombs, mostly one-ear pottery pots, two-ear pottery pots, stone knives, stone axes and other production and living utensils. There are also a few beads, bracelets, shellfish, etc., but they mostly appear in children's sarcophagi.
The cemetery is preliminarily judged to be the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period.
The close arrangement of the tombs, the unique burial customs and the unearthed burial objects are all very important for further research on the cultural sequence of the Jinsha River Valley and the migration and communication, living habits and burial customs of ancient peoples.
This tomb in Weidu Village in Dagu Township is the first active archaeological excavation in Yulong County. The existing tomb group covers an area of 2500 square meters. It is the largest tomb excavation in the Jinsha River Valley area of Lijiang in recent years, filling the large-scale area. The blank of the archaeological excavation of tombs Archaeological excavations are still in progress in an orderly manner. (Edited by Lu Jie)
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