new progress!Archaeological Discovery of the Qinghai -Tibet Plateau: 2007QM1 tomb is similar to the size of Blood Wei No. 1 Tomb of 2018

The reporter learned from the hot water combined archeological team that new progress has been made in archeology in the 2022 of the Lan Hot Water Tomb Group in Qinghai. Archaeologists found that the 2007QM1 cemetery shape was similar to the 2018 Blood Wei Tomb. The scale is equivalent. In the next step, overall exploration of the northern district of the hot water tomb group is planned.

▲ 2018 Blood Wei No. 1 Tomb (Figure Right) and 2007QM1 (left) position map.

The Capital Hot Water Tomb Group is located in the territory of the Realai Township of the Tibetan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Haixi Province, Qinghai Province. In 1982, it was discovered and named. In 2018, the stolen incident in the hot water tomb group. Since that year, the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology jointly discovered the stolen Bloody Weifei Tomb. The hot water combined archeological team used the southeast of the 6th century to the 9th century, along the nomadic ethnic settlement form, the number and layout of the hot water tomb group as the academic goal, the cleanup and excavation were mainly carried out, and the investigation and exploration were carried out at the same time.

▲ 2018 Blood Wei No. 1 Tomb 圹 圹 圹 圹.

"The focus of work in 2022 is to protect the excavation of 2007QM1." Han Jianhua, deputy researcher of the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, introduced that the 2007QM1 cleanup and excavation work has been completed. According to reports, 2007QM1 is located on the west side of the tomb No. 1 in 2018, close to the west wall west of Blood Wei 1 Tomb. In the early years, the walls, ground buildings, tombs, martial arts, walls, and tombs were discovered, but archeological materials were not announced. In order to protect the display site, after re -excavation, it is confirmed that the shape and scale of the tomb are similar to the 2018 Blood Wei Tomb Park.

In addition, in order to cooperate with the protection and display project of the hot water tomb group, the hot water combined archeological team re -excavated and cleaned up the two martyrs on the south side of the large tomb on the south side of the Bloody 1 Tomb excavated in 1982. At present, the excavation and cleanup work has been completed and the surveying and mapping work is undergoing surveying and mapping.

After the exploration of the Joint Archeology team in recent years, it has established a new perspective of the nomadic nomadic ethnic settlement form of the city site, religious facilities, and the trinity of the cemetery. "In the next step, the overall exploration work of the northern district of the hot water tomb group is planned. One is to determine the exact quantity and layout of the tombs in the North District, and the other is to find the east and west borders of the North District. The scope of accurate scope is to find the scope of the tomb of 2007QM1, and support the new understanding through exploration. "Han Jianhua said.

Archaeological discovery shows that the 2018 Bloody One Tomb is one of the most complete layouts, the clearest structure, and the most complicated shape of the Qinghai -Tibet Plateau. In April last year, the 2018 Blood Wei No. 1 Tomb was selected into the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country in 2020. In October last year, the Tomb of the Qinghai Dulan Water Tomb Group was selected as a hundred -year -old archeological discovery.

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Photo: Photo Conferring in Hot Water Joint Archaeological Team

Edit: Fu Xinxin

Editor in charge: Fan Bing

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Comprehensive: Xinhuanet

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