Kayue culture
The Kayue Culture ( Chinese 卡 約 文化 / 卡 约 文化 , Pinyin Kǎyuē wénhuà , English Kayue Culture ) was a Bronze Age culture in northwest China in the area of the upper reaches of the Huang He (Yellow River) and its tributary Huang Shui . It was discovered in 1923 in the villages of Kayue卡 约 村 and Xiaxihe 下 西 河村 by Yunguchuan in Huangzhong in the Chinese province of Qinghai and is named after the village of Kayue.
The earlier name of the Kayue culture was Kayao culture ( Chinese 卡 窑 文化 , Pinyin Kǎyáo wénhuà , English Kayao Culture ). It used to be part of the Siwa culture . It is dated from approx. 900–600 BC. Dated. It is a culture of the ancient Qiang people .
It was mainly in the area of today's Minhe , Ledu , Ping'an , Xining , Huzhu , Datong , Haiyan , Gangca ( Gangcha ), Tongren and Huangzhong , over 200 sites and tombs have been discovered with over 1,000 graves. Among them was the Bronze Age burial ground of Suzhi (Suzhi mudi 苏志 墓地) in the Xunhua Autonomous County of Salar .
Of the cultural objects discovered, the gold artefacts are considered to be particularly valuable, as they provide information about gold smelting, manufacture and use of gold from an early period. They reflect the cultural uniqueness of the ancient Qiang (羌) people who inhabited the northeastern region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau .
literature
- "Report on the Excavation of the Cemetery of Kayue Culture at Dahuazhongzhuang, Huangyuan County, Qinghai Province by The Qinghai Team of Cultural Relics and Archeology." Kaogu yu wenwu 1985.05, Shaanxi, 1985 - Chinese
- "Excavation of Tombs of the Kayue Culture at Banzhuwa, Hualong County, Qinghai by Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeological and Others." Kaogu 08/1996 - Chinese
- "Secondary excavation of the Kayue Culture cemetery at Shangbanzhuwa, Hualong county, Qinghai by Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology." Kaogu 1998.01, Beijing, 1998 - Chinese
- "On the Racial Type of the Lijishan People of Kayue Culture in the Light of the Nomeasured Morphological Features of Their Skulls by Zhang Jun." Kaogu 2001.05, Beijing, 2001 - Chinese
reference books
- Zhongguo da baike quanshu : Kaoguxue (Great Chinese Encyclopedia: Volume Archeology). Beijing: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, 1986 ( online text )
Web links
- Kayao wenhua - Chinese
- Kayue wenhua yizhi - Chinese
- Kayue wenhua - Chinese
- Unearthed Gold Objects of the Kayue Culture of Qinghai
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of May 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Zhongguo da baike quanshu , Kaoguxue , p. 251.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of May 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from October 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )