Culture of Eastern Turkestan

Apparently, the inhabitants of these sites have made considerable progress in various areas of spiritual and material culture, in agriculture, cattle breeding, pottery, despite the unfavorable conditions of the habitat and the considerable distance and isolation from other cultural centers in the west and especially in the east .

And finally, and this circumstance seems to us especially important, the chronologicalization of these monuments (in absolute terms) by the 1st millennium BC. E. Provides an opportunity to "dock" the data of ancient Chinese written monuments about the countries of the Western Territory in the II-I centuries. BC. E. With I archaeological materials and thus reconstruct a consistent picture of the historical processes taking place in this part of Central Asia for many centuries before its first contact with Han Chinese. The culture of Eastern Turkestan ...

The second group of archaeological monuments of Xinjiang is characterized by the presence of microlithic products. This is the most numerous (about 30) and the most common type of Neolithic sites, located in a wide band stretching from the northeast to the southwest. They are found in the counties of Yiwu, Hami, Mulay, Shanyyin, Turfan, Urumqi, Inin (Kulja), Yanqi (Karashar), Aksu, Kashi (Kashgar), Pishan, Khotan, Mingfeng (Niya), Tsemo (Cherchen) Lake. Lobnor and the river. Caliyah (Keriya). Unfortunately, small survey work, mainly the collection of lifting material, was carried out in only a few of the sites: Qi Jiaojing in Hami County, Mora in the same county, Astana and Yarhu near Turfan, and this makes it very difficult to characterize this group. In East Turkestan, male compatibility And women was very interesting. It was believed that if the women twins marry the twin men, then their marriage will be very happy.

The parking lot of Qi Jiaojing has an area of about 6,000 square meters. M. As a result of the charges, carried out, as far as is known, only once - in 1959 - a small amount of microlites was obtained: scrapers, plates, flakes and cores. Here, apparently, there is no ceramics; In any case, no fragments of it were found. Perhaps this indicates the relatively early age of Qi Jiaojing.

A small (about 1000 sq. M.) Parking lot is also Yarhu, located 15 km west of Turpan. Here, in the same year, 1959, microlithic scrapers, sharply pointed limbs, nucleuses and flakes were found.

Culture of Eastern Turkestan