The new chronology and material culture of a second millennium BC neolithic site in the heartland of the Tibetan Plateau: Qugong re-excavated

IF 0.9 2区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2024.100569

Xinzhou Chen , Hailun Xu , Linhui Li , Hongliang Lü

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Abstract

Recent archaeological research on the Tibetan Plateau has greatly increased our understanding of the subsistent lifeways of Neolithic populations. The chronology and material culture in Neolithic central Tibet, however, is less clear compared to other parts of the Tibetan Plateau. In this paper, we summarized the analytical results of a recent excavation at Qugong, one of the earliest Neolithic sites in the heartland of Tibet to date. We provided a new radiocarbon Bayesian chronology that dates the early phase of Qugong around 1400–1300 cal BC, which is shorter and later than previously assumed. In light of the new dates and the materials unearthed, our comparison of the materials between Qugong and the Neolithic sites in northwestern South Asia indicates that some cultural elements moved from the western Himalayan region eastward to central Tibet in the late second millennium BCE.

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青藏高原腹地一处公元前二千年新石器时代遗址的新年代学和物质文化：曲贡遗址的重新发掘

最近对青藏高原的考古研究大大加深了我们对新石器时代居民生活方式的了解。然而，与青藏高原其他地区相比，西藏中部新石器时代的年代学和物质文化并不十分清晰。曲贡是迄今为止西藏腹地最早的新石器时代遗址之一，本文总结了曲贡近期发掘的分析结果。我们提供了一个新的放射性碳贝叶斯年代学，将曲贡早期的年代定在公元前 1400-1300 年左右，这比之前假设的时间要短和晚。根据新的年代和出土材料，我们对曲贡和南亚西北部新石器时代遗址的材料进行了比较，结果表明在公元前二千年晚期，一些文化元素从喜马拉雅山西部地区东移到了西藏中部。

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Archaeological Research in Asia ARCHAEOLOGY-

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2.50

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13.30%

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期刊介绍： Archaeological Research in Asia presents high quality scholarly research conducted in between the Bosporus and the Pacific on a broad range of archaeological subjects of importance to audiences across Asia and around the world. The journal covers the traditional components of archaeology: placing events and patterns in time and space; analysis of past lifeways; and explanations for cultural processes and change. To this end, the publication will highlight theoretical and methodological advances in studying the past, present new data, and detail patterns that reshape our understanding of it. Archaeological Research in Asia publishes work on the full temporal range of archaeological inquiry from the earliest human presence in Asia with a special emphasis on time periods under-represented in other venues. Journal contributions are of three kinds: articles, case reports and short communications. Full length articles should present synthetic treatments, novel analyses, or theoretical approaches to unresolved issues. Case reports present basic data on subjects that are of broad interest because they represent key sites, sequences, and subjects that figure prominently, or should figure prominently, in how scholars both inside and outside Asia understand the archaeology of cultural and biological change through time. Short communications present new findings (e.g., radiocarbon dates) that are important to the extent that they reaffirm or change the way scholars in Asia and around the world think about Asian cultural or biological history.