Ancient Yanbulake Tombs
1 min readThe Ancient Yanbulake Tombs, located in Yanbulake village of Willow Springs Farm of today’s Hami city, covering an area of 8,000m2 with a history of about 4,000 years are the most important cemetery of the Bronze Age in the east of Xinjiang.
As one of the Chinese National Key Cultural Relics Protection Sites, the Ancient Yanbulake Tombs are the most important cultural relic of the Bronze Age in Xinjiang. The tombs are arrayed densely. Many relics have been unearthed here, usually including monaural pots, the pots with ears in the middle, binaural cans and so on. The unearthed colored potteries are abundant in S lines, vertical lines, cloud thunder lines, double-hook lines and so on which are extremely similar to those belonging to Gansu Hsin-tien culture and Siba culture.
The tombs are distributed on two northwest-southeast earth hummocks, remaining no obvious traces on the ground surface. The tombs mainly include shaft graves and shaft graves with reserved two-layer platforms, with the burial form including limb-bent burial and limb-unbent burial and the burial goods mainly including potteries, stoneware, wooden implements, bronze ware, ironware, gold ware, bone ware, wool textiles and so on, thus the tombs are very important for studying the cultural relation between Xinjiang and the mainland.
