东天山地区无封堆石结构墓葬初探

A Study on the Non-mound Megalithic Tombs in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains Region

石结构墓葬广泛分布于东起蒙古高原、西至黑海的欧亚大陆北方草原地区，在历史上，这一区域曾是多个民族相互角逐、又相互融合的场所。我们知道，墓葬是划分不同地域文化乃至不同族属文化的重要标志。因此，找出不同墓葬之间形制特征的区别与联系，对判定它们各自所代表的考古学文化有着至关重要的作用。

A large amount of megalithic tombs distributed across the pasture area of Xinjiang Province. They are archaeologically distinguishable and can serve as emblems to classify different cultures emerged in the piedmont of Tianshan mountains and Altai mountains. Among these burials, the non-mound megalithic tombs might have stood for one of the early pastoral nomadic cultures which once widely spread over the eastern Tianshan mountains region. In this article, the author tries to discover the relationship between the non-mound megalithic graves and one heretofore poorly known early nomadic culture by studying on these burials in the eastern Tianshan mountains region.