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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sahensai Cemetery
Country: China
NOTE: This site is 23.525 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Urumqi
Latitude: 43.745800N  Longitude: 87.609790E
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Sahensai Cemetery submitted by Andy B : The tombs are marked by mound-like stone piles or stone encirclement on the ground (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery in China. In 2006-2008, in the course of salvage excavation, the joint expedition of the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Properties and Archaeology and Urumqi Municipal Administration Bureau of Cultural Properties opened 180 tombs at Sahensai and obtained 300 items(groups) of artifacts.

The Sahensai cemetery, located on the second terrace of the synonymous gorge in the southern suburb of Urumqi, was discovered during the second national survey. In this flat and open territory, about 200 tombs were discovered. Marked by mound-like stone piles or stone encirclement on the ground, they are varied in shape, including shaft earthen pit, shaft stone-lined pit, and catacomb. The occupants are laid in supine or side, stretched or contracted position, in singularity or compound. The diversity of tombs denotes a variety of cultures and a long temporal span, lasting from the Bronze Age till the Han and Tang dynasties.

Tombs of the early period, counting 16, are located in the center of the cemetery. They are without aboveground mounds, but stone encirclement only. Their structures are circular or rectangular shaft pits, with linear or cruciform ridges on the bottom. All the human bones are disturbed; none is intact. But all occupants are single. Mortuary goods are normally placed in the depressions on the bottom, including ceramic, bronze, and stone artifacts. Forms of ceramic wares are peculiar; they are brown in color and tempered with sand, leveled at mouth, deep in belly, and flat at bottom. In rare occasions are found triangular impression on the rims. Among the other goods, there are bronze mirrors, bronze mace-heads, and bronze bowl, as well as stone molars. These tombs are the first discoveries of their kind in Xinjiang. Radiocarbon dates of them are around 3890BP and of the Bronze Age.

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Sahensai Cemetery submitted by Andy B : A few tombs are of the Tang dynasty. Topped with earthen and stone mounds, they are oval or crescent in shape. On the ledges of the tomb pits are buried an accompanying occupant and a horse. The main chambers, however, are severely plundered. Only some iron stir-up, bronze belt ornaments, and gold rings are left. Among the bronze belt ornaments, those in the shapes of square, semi-circular, and va... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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