Journal
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages 2015-2026Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-017-0521-6
Keywords
Agropastoralism; Tibet; Archaeobotany; Trade; exchange; Animal dung
Funding
- General Programs of the National Social Science Fund of China [16BKG001, 14BKG005]
- Major programs of the National Social Science Fund of China [12 ZD151]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities-Sichuan University [skyb201206]
- Research Initiation Funds for introduced talents of Sichuan University
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In this study, we present the preliminary result of archaeobotanical investigation at Kaerdong in western Tibet. The result shows that agropastoralism with combined strategies of foraging, hunting and fishing was in practice at the location between approximately 455 and 700cal. AD. Our results also show that herding animals grazed at meadows above 4300m above sea level (masl), and dung was used as fuel. The presence of a rice grain together with spikelet bases indicates that rice was a component of food resources possibly as a result of a trade and exchange system. In addition, tatary buckwheat grains were also recovered at the site.
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