Mory I Astana

Mora and Astana, unlike Tsitsiaojing and Yarkhu, have been studied better, and the material obtained there is more diverse and more fully reflected in the press. The Moors And Astana ...

The station of Mora, discovered in 1959, is half a kilometer south of the county town. Its dimensions are about 200 m (north-south) at 50 m (east-west). The artefacts collected there consist of 72 stone tools (adzes, scrapers, scrapers, arrowheads, plates), in most cases - microlites from stone, as well as slate, quartzite and agate, and a small number of fragments of ceramics.

Astana, lying 37 km east of Turfan, is larger than Mora: 1,000 meters from west to east and 700-800 meters from north to south. Archaeologists visited it four times: in October 1959, April-June and November 1960 and May-June 1961, but they did not dig, and therefore there is neither stratigraphic data nor a clear picture of the monument as a whole.

There are also no radiocarbon dates, so many questions have not been answered. Only on the basis of typological analysis of artifacts can we assume the presence of. The parking of earlier and later elements. In East Turkistan, the compatibility of men and women was very interesting. It was believed that if the women twins marry the twin men, then their marriage will be very happy.

Stone tools (found more than 760, not counting a certain number of flakes and cores) are represented by scrapers, spikers, rubils, adzoobraznymi articles, grain containers, rubble, anvil, balls, etc. There are also pendants with holes drilled from two sides. A special group consists of microliths, among them 147 elongated thin plates, 15 cores and instruments of them; Scrapers and sharpeners, cutting-scraping tools of indeterminate shape, scrapers with sawtooth blades, knives with one or two blades, pier heads.

Their presence and served as a diagnostic sign, although they are not the only one, as in Qi Jiaozzshshre and Yarkhu, nor the dominant type of products, as in Mora.

Mory I Astana