Red pigments and Boraginaceae leaves in mortuary ritual of late Neolithic China: A case study of Shengedaliang site

doi:10.1002/jemt.22791

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	Red pigments and Boraginaceae leaves in mortuary ritual of late Neolithic China: A case study of Shengedaliang site
	Wu, Yan 1; Guo, XiaoNing 2; Wang, WeiLin 2; Chen, XiangLong 3; Zhao, Zhijun 3; Xia, Xiumin 1,4; Yang, YiMin 1,4
刊名	MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE
	2017-02-01
卷号	80 期号:2 页码:231-238
关键词	Pigments Leaves Mortuary Ritual
DOI	10.1002/jemt.22791
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Investigation of mortuary ritual is an important method to reconstruct many aspects of past societies. Due to the lack of relevant analytical work, little evidence related to organic materials in a burial can be found in China. Here we report materials collected from a burial during the excavation of the Shengedaliang site. The recovered materials were analyzed using Raman spectroscopy and plant analysis: flotation, pollen and phytolith analysis. The red pigments found scattered over the human remains were identified as cinnabar. Extracted phytoliths associated with the burial are mainly leaves from the Boraginaceae family. This is the first time that a covering of leaves have been identified with a burial in Neolithic China. The presence of special leaves fossil may indicate a type of plant worship and the identification of an important plant used in traditional Chinese medicine. The finding of the two materials allows us to better identify indicators of funerary ritual and its relationship to social inequality.
WOS关键词	PHYTOLITH ; PLANTS ; CAVE ; WET
WOS研究方向	Anatomy & Morphology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Microscopy
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000393956500009
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China(41472145) ; National Basic Research Program of China(2015CB9538)
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://124.16.247.212/handle/311034/7504]
专题	古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol,Human, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Shaanxi Prov Inst Archaeol, Xian 710054, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Social Sci, Inst Archaeol, Beijing 100710, Peoples R China 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wu, Yan,Guo, XiaoNing,Wang, WeiLin,et al. Red pigments and Boraginaceae leaves in mortuary ritual of late Neolithic China: A case study of Shengedaliang site[J]. MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE,2017,80(2):231-238.
APA	Wu, Yan.,Guo, XiaoNing.,Wang, WeiLin.,Chen, XiangLong.,Zhao, Zhijun.,...&Yang, YiMin.(2017).Red pigments and Boraginaceae leaves in mortuary ritual of late Neolithic China: A case study of Shengedaliang site.MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE,80(2),231-238.
MLA	Wu, Yan,et al."Red pigments and Boraginaceae leaves in mortuary ritual of late Neolithic China: A case study of Shengedaliang site".MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE 80.2(2017):231-238.