The“Gouding Hypothesis”suggests that the burials of the Heimajing Cemetery were that of the aboriginal people of Xinan Yi,and very possible that of teh elites of the Gouding Kingdom during the late Western Han through the early Eastern Han Dynasty.To identify the ethnicity of the burials,we should not only pay attention to the grave goods,but also to the characteristics of the buarlis themselves and the funeral customs reflected by them.The Heimajing Cemetery in Gejiu had no relationship with the Gouding Kingdom of the Han Dynasty especially the elites of the Gouding Kingdom;their temporal and spatial relaiotnships are not matching,and the cultural features o f the Heimajing Cemetery were sharply different from that of there mains of the Gouding Kingdom found in the same region.Therefore,the Heimajing Cemetery was the remains of the Han-style burials whose date was mainly between the late Western Han and early Eastern Han Dynasty;its appearnace was related to the immigration of the people from other regions caused by the development of the mining industryin the Gejiu area,and in the occupants of the buria ls there would be many immigrants from the Lingnan Region and their descendants.
The 2000 Excavation on the Hezhang Kele Site publishes the data from the 111 tombs of Warring States and Qin-Han periods on the Kele site in Hezhang County of Guizhou excavated in the year of 2000.These graves are mostly burials of original inhabitants.The report features completeness and meticulousness in material publication,great attention to the multi-disciplinary approach and creativity in writing style.It enriches our knowledge of the cultural contents of the Kele-type remains,especially those of the aboriginal tombs,and has important value to establishing the sequence of archaeological cultures in the Southwestern Yi ethnic group’s territory of the Warring States and Qin-Han periods.
