Study On The Cave Tomb Upper Reaches Of Ili River In Early Iron Age

In the paper,the upper reaches of the Ili River are divided into three districts according to the distribution of the geographical structure and related remains.To make respective Typological analysis for Cave Tomb in early Iron Age in every districts according to the characteristics of the tomb and has a epilogue to conclude funeral forms and customs and funerary objects of various tombs.On the basis of the analysis,Cave Tomb are divided into six groups according to the same or similar cultural characteristics,and it is divided into four stages according to the changeable regulation presented by the typical cultural characteristics of each group of tombs and the data of the related tombs and the stratigraphic relationship.The Cave Tomb in early Iron Age in the region has influenced directly on that in the northern and southern Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang and Lower reaches of Ili River,and it has Cultural interaction with the same kind of burial cultural interaction in the same period in Central Asia and Gansu,Ningxia and other regions.The Cave Tomb of the upstream of the Ili river concomitant with vertical pit tomb and other types of tombs in the same period has the common culture,They are closely related to the nature of culture.We can see that the related people have changed in the economy and social structure from partial cavern tomb's size,shape and structure change of funerary objects,etc.In different period.And it can be roughly inferred that the close relation between period of first,second tombs with Sake in the region,and period of later two tombs with the Wusun,Rouzhi ethnicity Combined with historical literature and other research results.