西藏阿里地区故如甲木墓地和曲踏墓地

The Gurugyam and Chuvthag Cemeteries in Ngari Prefecture,Tibet

2012~2014年,对故如甲木墓地和曲踏墓地开展发掘。故如甲木墓地为竖穴土坑墓葬群,曲踏墓地属洞室墓群,墓葬形制完整,文化内涵丰富。两处墓地的发掘,对于建立西藏西部考古学文化体系、推进西藏早期文明研究具有重要意义。

In 2012 through 2014, the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and other institutions conducted a series of excavations to the Gurugyam and Chuvthag Cemeteries in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet. The Gurugyam Cemetery is the largest and the most concentrated vertical shaft pit burial cemetery found to date in Ngari, and has close relationship with the Mkhar gdong City Site; Chuvthag Cemetery is the first archaeologically excavated cave tomb cemetery in Ngari Prefecture. The structures of the burials of these two cemeteries were completely preserved and these burials had rich cultural connotations, which provided valuable materials for the reconstruction of the social life in the ancient Pre-Tubo Kingdom Period. The discovery and studies on these two cemeteries are significantly meaningful for the establishment of the system of the archaeological cultures in western Tibet, and are also the new development of the research on the early civilization of Tibet.