New Discovery of Plant Remains in The West of Tibet

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Tangible Things to Intangible Ideas: The Context of Pan-Eurasian Exchange of Crops and Objects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 2017, one grain and 24 spikelets of barley and other prestigious burial objects were found in the No. 2 tomb which is located at Gepa Serul cemetery, Zanda, Tibet, Chian (the region of the upper reaches of Indus River). Up to now, Gepa Serul cemetery is the earliest known in western Tibet, dating back to 3562-3000 cal. BC by radiocarbon (14C) analyses. The barley remains are scanty, but still meaningful with regard to researching the eastward dispersal of barley. Actually, there are earlier direct radiocarbon dates for archaeobotanical barley grains from Qinghai and Gansu Provinces, China, the Indus Valley in Kashmir, and Pakistan than Gepa Serul. However, the barley of Gepa Serul may have spread from Indus valley due to their close geographical location.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• From Tangible Things to Intangible Ideas: The Context of Pan-Eurasian Exchange of Crops and Objects   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24082