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Deep History of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayas: Highlands, Valleys, and Connected Worlds
Lhasa Valley, central plateau · Quellengeprüftes Profil

Qugong and changing Lhasa Valley chronologies

Qugong (曲贡)

Renewed excavation near Lhasa revisits pottery, tools, deposits, and the chronology of later prehistoric communities. Settlement and burial evidence preserve different, partial records.

Later prehistoric archaeological sequence and re-excavation context Second-first millennia BCE; revised early contexts around 1400-1300 BCE Re-excavated stratigraphy, dated material contexts, pottery, tools, fauna, and comparative settlement research Qugong, northern Lhasa Valley (regional archaeological orientation point); approximate orientation only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, religious, cultural, or sovereignty boundary.
Überblick

Highland landscapes, communities, and changing institutions

Plateau, valley, and connected regional landscapes

A central river valley connected varied productive zones. It was not a timeless capital landscape stretching unchanged into prehistory.

Political organization and community scale

The scale of cooperation and differentiation remains under investigation; no named kingdom is demonstrated by the classification.

Later transformation, living heritage, and modern reception

The 2020 field season and subsequent publication revise earlier models. Respect for burial contexts does not require assigning a modern identity to the people represented.

Chronology early contexts revised to around 1400-1300 BCE

The re-excavation study distinguishes its results from inherited chronology.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S1]
Evidence limits settlement and burial records differ

Mortuary selection cannot stand for all households.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S1] [S2]
Regional comparison not identical to Bangga

Different assemblages invite comparison, not one uniform plateau culture.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S3]
Historischer Verlauf

Eine kurze, quellengestützte Zeitleiste

Diese Meilensteine dienen der Orientierung und sind keine vollständige Geschichte.

  1. Revised early contexts

    New dating narrows the chronology of excavated early material.

  2. Changing material record

    Burials and settlement deposits must be separated by context rather than treated as one event.

  3. Earlier fieldwork

    The original excavations provided the sequence later reassessed.

  4. Re-excavation

    Joint archaeological fieldwork revisited the core site after about three decades.

Kultur und Sprache

Households, labor, language, belief, and material evidence

In diesem Profil genannte Sprachen

  • No directly attested local prehistoric language

Sprachfamilie: Later Tibetan writing cannot be projected onto prehistoric pottery

New dates apply to sampled contexts rather than every earlier find.

Regional animal-management comparisons remain provisional.

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