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Day Cemetery. Were Analyzed

Posted on:2010-12-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y M XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360272994023Subject:Archaeology and Museology
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The Zongri Site in Tongde County of Qinghai province is the only prehistoric site which unearthed murrey colored drawing on potteries with sand as temper in Gansu and Qinghai area. The main relics of this site are graves. Since the site excavation, there had not been a deep research on cemetery spatial arrangement and the social structure which was reflected by this cemetery.This article defines the social structure as fixed relations between the person and person which contain two level contents:the social unit's division and their levels and all levels of social unit's difference. We start our research from the graves direct—viewing space layout. According to the grave spatial clustering situation, we divide the cemetery into three regionalization ranks from large to small :the grave area, the grave company and the grave group. Afterward we research the the colored drawing pottery by typology. Applying these results to arrange the grave group yields graves' chronological sequence, unifies the cemetery's spatial arrangement by setting the grave groups into grave rows, and verifies the division of grave rows and groups. Using the chronological sequence we discuss the formation of grave groups, grave companies which contain numerous grave groups ,and the whole cemetery. Then we divide the cemetery forming process into the newly established period, the formative period, the expansive period, the steady development period, the contraction period and the ending period, corresponding in turn with the 6 sections of grave chronological stages. Afterwards we use the cemetery forming process and spatial arrangement to analysis society unit's level division and the interior relations in these levels and relations among different levels. From grave construction,quantity and quality of funerary objects,according to the time and spatial arrangement, we analysis society units' differences, and discuss the correlation between the gender or age and the grave. We draw the conclusion finally: the social structure constitution in the spatial arrangement formation process of the crowd who used the Zongri cemetery ,was displayed by the unit of different levels and equal social units. And the level was higher, its internal relations were looser.
Keywords/Search Tags:ZongRi cemetery, spatial arrangement, formation process, social structure
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