A Study on the Animal Remains Unearthed from the Jirentaigoukou Site in Nilka, Xinjiang, China
Author(s): Hailin Liu; Xin Yu; Chunxue Wang
Year: 2023
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The Jirentaigoukou site in Nileke, Xinjiang is an important Bronze Age site in the Ili River area of Xinjiang. From 2015 to 2016, the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated the Jirentaigoukou site and cemetery in Nileke County. A total of more than 1,000 animal skeletons were unearthed in the two excavation years, all of which were mammals. The species mainly consisted of sheep, cattle, and horses. After analysis, various animals in the site were found to have been domesticated. Animal skeletons unearthed from the site show the residents of the area were mainly engaged in animal husbandry.
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A Study on the Animal Remains Unearthed from the Jirentaigoukou Site in Nilka, Xinjiang, China. Hailin Liu, Xin Yu, Chunxue Wang. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 474795)
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Keywords
General
Bronze Age
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Subsistence and Foodways
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Zooarchaeology
Geographic Keywords
Asia: East Asia
Spatial Coverage
min long: 70.4; min lat: 17.141 ; max long: 146.514; max lat: 53.956 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 36981.0