The Study On The Non-mound Stone Grave In The Eastern Tianshan Mountain Region

Since the ancient times, the Xinjiang area of China is the place of living and blending among the different nations. In Xinjiang, there are a great deal of the stone grave which are the important sign to distinguish the different cultures appearing in the piedmont of eastern Tianshan mountains and Altai mountains. For a long time, the scholars used to pay much attention on the mound stone grave while they know a little about the non-mound stone grave, sometimes, they even confused the non-mound stone grave with the stone structured-house. Actually, the non-mound stone grave would stand for a kind of the early nomadic culture once widely appeared in the eastern Tianshan mountains region.The information mentioned in this article were the first-hand data acquired by the investigation in the wild by the author. We try to discover the characteristics and the laws through the systematic study and analysis. Besides, we can find that the non-mound stone grave were similar with the graves in the Yanblak necropolis, Baichier necropolis, Wupu necropolis.The mound stone grave which were excavated in Dongheigou and Heigouliang necropolis stand for the Xiongnu culture. However, the funeral objects belong to the funeral murder in these graves were similar with the funeral objects in the non-mound stone grave. In this article, we try to find out the relationship between the non-mound stone grave and one uncertain early nomadic culture by the study to the non-mound stone grave in the eastern Tianshan mountain region.