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The tusi cemetery of the Yang Family at Xinpu New District, Zunyi City, Guizhou

Guizhou Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, CASS and Zunyi Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics
Published/Copyright: November 18, 2017
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Chinese Archaeology
From the journal Chinese Archaeology Volume 17 Issue 1

Abstract

In 2013 and 2014, Guizhou Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other institutions conducted large-scale excavation to the tusi (hereditary headmen system in the minority area, and also the title of the headmen) cemetery of the Yang Family in Xinpu New District, Zunyi City, which recovered three tombs of the tusi of the Yang Family. Among these three tombs, Yang Jie’s tomb was a large-sized earthen pit tomb furnished with wooden coffin chamber, which was a special structure in this cemetery; it was well preserved and yielded large amount of elaborate gold and silver wares and other exquisite grave goods. The entire cemetery had clear and tidy arrangements, diversified burial types, exact tomb occupant identities, large time span and rich grave goods yielded, all of which enriched the knowledge on the funeral system, genealogy and cultural characteristics of the Yang Family, the tusi clan of Bozhou Prefecture, made it possible to comprehensively explore the social history of the ancient Bozhou Prefecture and propelled the archaeological researches on the remains of the tusi system.

Keywords: Burials--China--Song to Ming Dynasties (960-1644 CE); tusi (hereditary headmen system in the minority area)--Guizhou; Yang Jie (?-1243); Yang Keng (1353-1399); Yang Lie (?-1571)

Postscript

The director of this excavation project is Bisu Zhou 周必素, the academic advisor is Bin Bai 白彬, and the team leader is Xiaofan Zhao 赵小帆. The archaeologists who have participated in the excavation are Bisu Zhou 周必素, Wan Peng 彭万, Fei Li 李飞, Xiaofan Zhao 赵小帆, Lei Yang 杨磊, Songheng Wei 韦松恒, Qing Chen 陈卿, Xiaohua Wu 吴小华, Junhu He 贺军虎, Jianjun Han 韩建军, Jize Han 韩继泽, Qianjin Han 韩前进, Li Wang 王莉, etc. from Guizhou Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Cunxin Li 李存信 from Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Bin Bai 白彬 from School of History and Culture, Sichuan University, Xiaofei Li 李小飞 from Yang Can’s Tomb Museum, Xiaobo Zheng 郑小波 from Commission for Preservation of Ancient Monuments, Xinpu New District. The photos of this report are taken by Jianguo Liu 刘建国, Feifei Wang 王飞飞, Wan Peng and Kunming Huang 黄昆明. The original report published in Kaogu 考古 (Archaeology) 2015.07:87-100 with 32 illustrations was authored by Bisu Zhou and Wan Peng. This English full-text translation is done by Xiaolei Ding 丁晓雷.

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Published Online: 2017-11-18
Published in Print: 2017-12-20

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https://doi.org/10.1515/char-2017-0006
Keywords for this article
Burials--China--Song to Ming Dynasties (960-1644 CE); tusi (hereditary headmen system in the minority area)--Guizhou; Yang Jie (?-1243); Yang Keng (1353-1399); Yang Lie (?-1571)

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. New archaeological discoveries
  3. Neolithic cultural remains in the coastal area of southeastern Hainan Province
  4. New archaeological discoveries
  5. The Remains of Liangzhu Culture at Jiangzhuang Site in Xinghua and Dongtai Cities, Jiangsu
  6. New archaeological discoveries
  7. The 2014-2015 excavations of the Zhouyuan Site in Baoji, Shaanxi
  8. New archaeological discoveries
  9. Marquis of Haihun’s tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Nanchang, Jiangxi
  10. New archaeological discoveries
  11. The excavation of the Taiji Hall complex in Han-Wei Luoyang City
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  20. Reports
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  24. Reports
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  35. Studies on the materials and manufacturing technology of the murals unearthed at Shimao Site in Shenmu County, Shaanxi
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