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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Jiayi CemeteryCountry: China
NOTE: This site is 0.319 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Turpan
Latitude: 42.948000N Longitude: 89.179000E
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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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
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