[Explanation] China's 2020 "National Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries" was recently announced in Beijing. The Sangdalungo Cemetery is on the list, becoming the third Tibet to be selected as the "National Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries" project.
Sangdarongguo Cemetery is located in Zanda County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet. It lasted from 300 BC to 600 AD. It is currently the longest cemetery found in Tibet and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
[Concurrent] He Wei, Associate Researcher, Institute of Cultural Relics Conservation, Tibet Autonomous Region
A lot of this pottery was unearthed in the tomb of Sangdalongguo, and then ironware, bronze, and the very important gold and silver decorations and wooden figurines.
Especially when I found this wooden figurine, it was really a surprise. It was the first discovery in Tibet and the first discovery in the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
[Explanation] He Wei, an associate researcher of the Tibet Autonomous Region Cultural Relics Conservation Research Institute, introduced that the simple carving style and flexible design of the joints of the wooden figurines found in the Sangdalungo Cemetery are similar to those unearthed from the contemporary tombs in Turpan, Xinjiang. Place.
This is one of the important clues to the cultural and crowd exchanges between Zanda County in Tibet and Xinjiang.
He Wei said that the Sundarongguo Cemetery has been in use for nearly a thousand years, and the western end of the Himalayas has formed an archaeological "cultural community" with relatively consistent cultural features and connotations, and it may be centered on the Xiangquan River Basin to the south of the Himalayas. The surrounding areas of the northern two foothills radiate and extend.
[Concurrent] He Wei, Associate Researcher, Institute of Cultural Relics Conservation, Tibet Autonomous Region
Among the several tombs represented by the Xiangquan River Basin and the Sangdalungo Cemetery, it embodies such an archaeological and cultural feature that is the same as the main body, and then it is the eastern side of Tibet and the central plains. From the perspective of the exchanges in the Mainland, it does show that it is indeed an indispensable part of this Chinese civilization, and proves that Tibet is a member of the big family of Chinese civilization.
[Explanation] After relevant analysis, it is known that the Sangdalongo Cemetery has been in use for thousands of years. From the early days of large-scale crowds gathering here, the cemetery was gradually no longer used after 600 AD.
During this period, political entities sprouted, productivity developed substantially, and archaeological cultures from northern Nepal, northern India, and Han areas merged here.
[Concurrent] He Wei, Associate Researcher, Institute of Cultural Relics Conservation, Tibet Autonomous Region
The Sangdalungo Cemetery itself is very important. It is important to clarify the same archaeological and cultural characteristics of the southern and northern foothills of the western Himalayas, their problems in this cultural exchange circle, and the construction of the early social development in western Tibet. The appearance provided some clues, and it also provided some clues for the study of "Gu Xiangxiong".
[Explanation] According to reports, the excavation of the Sangdalungo Cemetery has opened up a new model of multidisciplinary cooperation in Tibetan archaeology. In addition to the application of traditional typology and stratigraphy in archaeological work, it also includes animal archaeology, Plant archaeology, physical anthropology, metallurgical archaeology, ancient DNA, ancient proteomics and chronology.
Reporter Gongsanglam reports from Lhasa, Tibet
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