Featured: Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2019!

Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2019!

Random Image


Stone of Setter

Sign the Petition to Protect Broxy Kennels Hillfort - Click Here

Sign the Petition to Protect Broxy Kennels Hillfort - Click Here

Who's Online

There are currently, 367 guests and 2 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Other Photo Pages >> Jiayi Cemetery - Barrow Cemetery in China

Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 10 November 2019  Page Views: 942

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Jiayi Cemetery
Country: China Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Turpan
Latitude: 42.948000N  Longitude: 89.179000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
1
Be the first person to rate this site - see the 'Contribute!' box in the right hand menu.

Internal Links:
External Links:

Jiayi Cemetery
Jiayi Cemetery submitted by dodomad : The tomb where scientists found the cannabis plants. The first layer is shown in (a). (b) shows a close-up view of the shroud. (c) is a line drawing of the contents, and (d) shows the bottom layer. Image Courtesy of Economic Botany (Vote or comment on this photo)
Jiayi cemetery in Turpan, is associated with the Subeixi culture (also known as the Gushi Kingdom) that occupied the area between roughly 3,000 to 2,000 years ago. At the time, Turpan's desert oasis was an important stop on the Silk Road.

An extraordinary cache of ancient, well-preserved Cannabis plant remains was recently discovered in a tomb in the Jiayi cemetery of Turpan, NW China. Radiometric dating of this tomb and the archeobotanical remains it contained indicate that they are approximately 2800–2400 years old. Both morphological and anatomical features support the identification of the plant remains as Cannabis. Research discussed in this paper describes 13 nearly whole plants of Cannabis that appear to have been locally produced and purposefully arranged and used as a burial shroud which was placed upon a male corpse. This unique discovery provides new insight into the ritualistic use of Cannabis in prehistoric Central Eurasia. Furthermore, the fragmented infructescences of Cannabis discovered in other tombs of the Jiayi cemetery, together with similar Cannabis remains recovered from coeval tombs in the ancient Turpan cemetery along with those found in the Altai Mountains region, reveal that Cannabis was used by the local Central Eurasian people for ritual and/or medicinal purposes in the first millennium before the Christian era.

Economic Botany, October 2016, Volume 70, Issue 3, pp 213–221
Ancient Cannabis Burial Shroud in a Central Eurasian Cemetery
Hongen Jiang, Long Wang, Mark D. Merlin, Robert C. Clarke, Yan Pan, Yong Zhang, Guoqiang Xiao, Xiaolian Ding, September 2016

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-016-9351-1
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.

Nearby Images from Flickr

The above images may not be of the site on this page, but were taken nearby. They are loaded from Flickr so please click on them for image credits.


Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive map of the area

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 29.3km ESE 105° Astana Graves Rock Cut Tomb
 30.7km ESE 110° Gaochang Ancient Village or Settlement
 84.7km E 96° Subeixi Cemeteries Barrow Cemetery
 154.8km NW 305° Sahensai Cemetery* Barrow Cemetery
 161.3km NW 307° Zinjiang Autonomous Region Museum* Museum
 223.1km SSW 208° Buyantu-Bulaq Rock Art* Rock Art
 274.7km SSE 168° Loulan* Ancient Village or Settlement
 293.9km S 189° Small River Cemetery* Barrow Cemetery
 295.4km S 190° Xiaohe Necropolis* Barrow Cemetery
 297.1km SW 226° Tarim River Tombs Barrow Cemetery
 412.3km S 184° Miran (China)* Ancient Village or Settlement
 563.4km W 259° Kizil Caves of 1000 Buddhas* Cave or Rock Shelter
 595.5km NW 324° Shilikty Burial Mounds Barrow Cemetery
 623.2km N 355° Lake Hoton Standing Grave Stones* Standing Stones
 635.4km N 355° Lake Hoton Round Barrow Round Barrow(s)
 637.3km N 354° Lake Hoton Petroglyphs* Rock Art
 686.8km N 355° Mt. Shiveet altar stone with petroglyphs* Rock Art
 688.8km N 354° Shiveet Mountain Petroglyphs* Rock Art
 731.0km SW 220° Endere (China)* Ancient Village or Settlement
 737.1km NW 314° Eleke Sazy Burial Mounds* Barrow Cemetery
 743.3km NNW 344° Berel Burial Mounds* Barrow Cemetery
 763.5km N 356° Tarhatinsky megalithic site* Standing Stones
 786.9km SW 234° Karadong* Ancient Village or Settlement
 841.2km SW 222° Niya (China)* Ancient Village or Settlement
 847.9km N 349° Chuya Deer Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir)
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Jirzankal cemetery

Allensbach-Strandbad >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods

Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Jiayi Cemetery" | Login/Create an Account | 3 News and Comments
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Re: Ancient Cannabis 'Burial Shroud' Discovered in Desert Oasis by davidmorgan on Sunday, 10 November 2019
(User Info | Send a Message)
I'm guessing there must be a connection with the Scythians here (mentioned by Herodotus as having cannabis "vapour baths"). In 1929, Professor S. I. Rudenko excavated a Pazyryk tomb in the Altai Mountains where he found "a bronze cauldron filled with burnt marihuana seeds ... and some shirts woven from hemp fibre and some metal censors designed for inhaling smoke which did not appear to be connected with any religious rite. To Rudenko, the evidence suggested that inhalation of smoldering marihuana seeds occurred not only in religious context, but also as an everyday activity in which Scythian women participated alongside the men." - Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years by E.L. Abel.

See also "Scythians & Cannabis" on the Herb Museum website.
[ Reply to This ]

Trove Of Cannabis Plants Found In Ancient Tomb In China by Andy B on Sunday, 10 November 2019
(User Info | Send a Message)
Researchers have unearthed 13 cannabis plants in an ancient tomb in northern China, suggesting that prehistoric central Eurasians had ritualistic or medicinal uses for the mind-altering plant.

In a recent paper published in Economic Botany, the scientists say that the "extraordinary cache" of 13 "nearly whole" female cannabis plants were arranged diagonally like a shroud over the body of a dead man. The man was about 35 years old, appeared to be Caucasian and might have been a shaman, they say.

In the tomb, the body was placed on a wooden bed with a "pillow made of common reeds," surrounded by earthenware pots. The plants measured between 19 and 35 inches, and carbon dating indicated that the cemetery is 2,800 to 2,400 years old.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/06/496879368/trove-of-cannabis-plants-found-in-ancient-tomb-in-china?t=1573417825621
[ Reply to This ]

Ancient Cannabis 'Burial Shroud' Discovered in Desert Oasis by Andy B on Sunday, 10 November 2019
(User Info | Send a Message)
For the first time, archaeologists have unearthed well-preserved cannabis plants, which were placed on a corpse some 2,500 years ago.

Archaeologists are hailing the discovery of an "extraordinary cache" of cannabis found in an ancient burial in northwest China, saying that the unique find adds considerably to our understanding of how ancient Eurasian cultures used the plant for ritual and medicinal purposes.

In a report in the journal Economic Botany, archaeologist Hongen Jiang and his colleagues describe the burial of an approximately 35-year-old adult man with Caucasian features in China's Turpan Basin. The man had been laid out on a wooden bed with a reed pillow beneath his head.

Thirteen cannabis plants, each up to almost three feet long, were placed diagonally across the man's chest, with the roots oriented beneath his pelvis and the tops of the plants extending from just under his chin, up and alongside the left side of his face.

Radiocarbon dating of the tomb's contents indicates that the burial occurred approximately 2,400 to 2,800 years ago.

This discovery adds to a growing collection of archaeological evidence showing that cannabis consumption was "very popular" across the Eurasian steppe thousands of years ago, says Jiang.

More at
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/10/marijuana-cannabis-pot-weed-burial-shroud-china-ancient-discovery-scythians-turpan-archaeology-botany/
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.