Tombs of the Yelang Period at Kele in Hezhang, Guizhou

摘要

In September-October 2000, the Guizhou Provincial Institute of Antiquity and Archaeology and Hezhang County Commission for Preservation of Ancient Monuments jointly excavated tombs of the Warring States period to Western Han times at Kele 可乐, Village in Kele Town, Hezhang 赫章 County, Guizhou 贵州 and reaped great fruits. Due to the tombs are of the ancient Yelang period and the burial custom and funerary objects have distinctive local ethnic features, the excavation aroused more interest in the academic circle.