西藏西部阿里丁东遗址相关问题初探

2002年,四川大学考古学系与西藏自治区文物局联合在皮央·东嘎遗址V区发掘了丁东居住遗址.发掘研究表明其与2001年发掘的三处早期墓地属于同一时期,为公元前第一千纪后半期的早期金属时代.这是西藏西部首个经考古发掘的早期居住遗址.文章结合穆斯塘(Mustang)地区考古发现以及喜马拉雅民族志,对其年代、聚落布局、季节性质、建筑特点以及经济形态进行初步探讨,认为丁东遗址代表西藏西部早期金属时代定居畜牧部落的居址,对研究西藏西部早期历史极为关键.

A Preliminary Study on the Dingdong Settlement Site in Tibetan Western Ngari

In 2002,an Archaeology team organized by the Department of Archaeology in Sichuan University and the Tibet Cultural Relics Bureau excavated a settlement site at V Piyang Donggar Site, and it can be dated to the second half part of the 1st millennium BC, belongs to the early metal age in Tibet archaeology. This is the first prehistoric settlement in western Tibet. This paper gives a preliminary discussion about the date, settlement pattern, seasonality, structural technology and subsistence, and proposes tha...