Early Iron Age Tomb Sealed Heap Of Yili Prefecture, Xinjiang

Ili district of Xinxiang province is located Ili valley which has a superior natural and geographical environment. There are Sake, Rouzhi, Wusun lived in this area in history. During the past thousands years, there are large number of remains were left by these nomadic people, especially the burials. Currently, we excavated thousands burials in Ili. We have already made a careful investigation of the antiquity at the Third General Investigation in 2008-2009, and discovered more than fifty thousand burials. There are many types of burials in Ili, to collation or publish of these data further has play a positive role in future studies. The data which has collated and published usually classified on the basis of tomb chamber underground, but a very simple introduce to the ground. This article study the burials on the basis of collated the data of the third investigation in detail, according to the different mound of ground and classify into three types as stones-mound, soil and stone mound, soil-mound, study the regularities of distribution in the space. And then combine with excavated data, analyze the variation and composed of artifacts and tomb chamber underground, arrange for three developed lines in the time of the early Ironic Times in this district.