China News Service, Urumqi, March 3 (Jing Hui Shen Kailong Liu Yushan) Recently, the Yingxia Township Government of Korla City, Xinjiang Bayingoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture (referred to as Bazhou) was carrying out mechanical operations on a construction reserve land in Yingxia Village. When ancient artifacts such as pottery, copper, and stone are produced, the work will be stopped immediately and the local cultural relics management department will be notified, and the site will be protected in time.
After the Bazhou Culture and Tourism Bureau learned the information, it immediately reported it to the Xinjiang Culture and Tourism Department (Xinjiang Cultural Relics Bureau).
From February 28th to March 2nd, appointed by the Xinjiang Culture and Tourism Department (Xinjiang Cultural Relics Bureau), the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology sent archaeologists to Korla City, together with the staff of Bazhou Cultural Museum and Korla City Culture and Tourism Bureau An on-site survey of the site was carried out and a brief clean-up of the damaged and exposed remains was carried out.
In addition to pottery, relics such as grinding stones, spinning wheels and bronze mirrors were also found.
Photo by Zuli Picar Umaierjiang
The site is located in the southwest of Korla City, about 2 kilometers away from the urban area, about 4 kilometers away from the Kongque River in the north, and about 3.4 kilometers away from the east of the ancient city of Yuzigan.
When the archaeologists cleaned up the ruins that had been destroyed and exposed at the site, they found rotten traces of wooden pillars and reeds. Relics such as human bones, pottery, and iron were located in the space formed by the wooden pillars and reeds. Tomb, the site is an ancient cemetery.
A batch of cultural relics from the Warring States Period was discovered in Korla, Bazhou, Xinjiang.
Photo by Zuli Picar Umaierjiang
A total of 32 cultural relics (groups) were found in the damaged and exposed sites.
It is mainly made of pottery, and it can be seen that the single-eared jar, the single-eared jar, the double-eared jar and the single-eared pot are mainly plain noodles, with a small amount of additional pile patterns.
One of them has a single ear with a flow jar, and the upper part of the utensil is decorated with an inverted triangle painted pattern.
In addition to pottery, relics such as grinding stones, spinning wheels and bronze mirrors were also found.
During the cleaning process, archaeologists found a piece of carbonized wooden pot mouth edge, which was not easy to preserve in the relatively humid Yanqi Basin.
These relics are relatively well-preserved relics discovered in the Korla area in recent years.
The tomb shape and unearthed relics are similar to the Shanghu Township Cemetery in Korla City and the Qunba Ke Cemetery in Luntai County, all of which belong to the prehistoric Chawuhu Goukou Culture category in the northern margin of the Tarim Basin, roughly in the middle and late Warring States Period.
Aerial photograph of the distribution area of the tombs.
Photo courtesy of Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
It is understood that the discovery of the cemetery in Yingxia Village, Yingxia Township, Korla City is of great significance for further understanding the connotation of Chawuhu Goukou Culture, and in-depth discussion and improvement of the distribution and evolution of the prehistoric archaeological cultural pattern in the northern margin of the Tarim Basin.
It provides important material materials for the restoration of the historical and cultural features of the Korla area from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, and provides a certain basis for exploring and understanding the "Yuli" and "Weishu" recorded in "Han Shu·xiyuzhuan" and other city-states around the Yanqi Basin. clue.
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