Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Archaeological Origin Of The Problem Of Nuclear Analytical Techniques Study

The mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang is the biggest imperial mausoleum in ancient China. The State Council had decided the Mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang would be a key cultural relic under state protection. By the more than 40 years' archaeological excavation, excavators found the ruins of ancient palace cover millions square meters and more than 500 burial pits and graves in and out of the cemetery. Some important burial pits are the pits of Terracotta Warriors and Horses, copper carriage, stone loricae, rare animals and birds, tomb figure of civilian, water bird and so on. But there are many questions remain controversial, such as where is the source of the huge covering soil of the mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang? Where are the sources of raw materials and the kiln sites of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses? What are the firing temperatures of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses? Dose the pottery and tile of the mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang use local materials? We know that there isn't bluestone around the mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang, so where the sources of raw materials of these stone loricae are has become the people's discussion and research focus.The element contents of the covering soil of the mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang and the clay nearby it, the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses, tile and pottery, stone loricae and ore of North Mountain were determined by PIXE and NAA techniques, these data were then analyzed by scatter analysis, primary component factor analysis and fuzzy cluster analysis to obtain the source of raw materials and classifications.We select the covering soil samples from the east, west and north of the mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang; use the NAA technique to study their source of raw materials. The results show that: (1) Because the relations of the soil of Lingxipo, the covering soil of east of the mausoleum, the compact soil of north of the mausoleum, the compact soil of east and west of the mausoleum are very far, the source of covering soil of the mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang may be different places. (2) The site of Wuling, Sanliu village, Zhaobeihu village and Sanren village...