What means of transportation are available at Kayo Cultural Site?

transportation guide for the Cayo cultural site: there are special tourist routes to the scenic spot of the Cayo cultural site in the urban area.

Kayo cultural site was discovered in 1923 in Kayo Village and Xiaxihe Village of Yunguchuan in Huangzhong County.

Kayo is a Tibetan place name, which means the flat land in front of the mountain pass. In the past, it was included in the Siwa culture system. After 1949, archaeologists separated it from Siwa culture and named it Kayo culture (formerly called Kayao culture), on the grounds that Siwa culture and Kayo culture have their own distribution areas and cultural characteristics in terms of geographical distribution and cultural connotation.

Kayue culture is mainly distributed in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and its tributary Huangshui Valley in Qinghai, involving more than 1 counties and cities such as Minhe, Ledu, Ping 'an, Xining, Huzhu, Datong, Haiyan, Gangcha, Tongren and Huangzhong, with a wide distribution range. More than 2 sites or cemeteries have been discovered, and more than 1, tombs have been excavated.

In Kayo culture, the living sites and tombs of our ancestors have been excavated in recent years, with no less than 2, tombs excavated. Besides various household utensils and pottery, unearthed cultural relics include a large number of stone knives, axes, trowels, mortars, pestles and hammers, bone trowels, shovels, cones and copper knives, axes and axes. We also found grain (millet and wheat) and more livestock bones such as cattle, sheep, horses and dogs. According to these cultural relics, we can make some analysis and research on people's production and living conditions at that time, and draw a rough outline: at that time, people generally lived an economic life dominated by settled agriculture, with animal husbandry accounting for a large proportion, and hunting and gathering activities were also an important supplement to their sources of life. Of course, the composition of this kind of economic life will not be exactly the same in such a vast area with very different natural conditions. In some loess valley areas suitable for agricultural production, the proportion of agricultural production will naturally be larger; In some places with lush forests and abundant aquatic plants, the components of animal husbandry and hunting economy are dominant, and even nomadic economy exists.

These situations often have some interesting reflections in tombs. For example, among the three common pieces of pottery, one is for grain, the other for meat and the other for water. This phenomenon shows that people at that time believed that the deceased lived in another world and continued to need these necessities out of primitive religious beliefs, and also reflected that agriculture, animal husbandry and hunting products were people's sources of life. For another example, four dog paws or a dog's head were found around four hoof bones and an end bone in the tomb many times. Intuitively, does this mean that dogs are faithfully guarding the herd? Think further, how close the relationship between animal husbandry and the life of the tomb owner is!

In male tombs, copper knives, axes, knives, spears, stones, bones, copper arrows and arrows are usually buried, while in female tombs, bone needles, bone tubes (needles), bones and stone spinning wheels are common. This phenomenon shows that the objects buried with men and women are different, and it also reflects that there was a clear social division of labor between men and women at that time, that is, women were mainly engaged in agriculture and housework, while men's main duties were to manage animal husbandry, hunting and tribal security activities.

Cayo culture has entered the bronze age because a large number of bronzes have been unearthed, although stone tools are still widely used. According to the determination of radioactive carbon 14, Kayo culture is about 3 years ago, which is equivalent to the Western Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains of China.

according to the literature, the ancient residents who lived in Hehuang area around 1 BC were only Qiang people. The distribution of Kayo culture clearly tells us that it is the cultural remains of the ancient Qiang people. In the development of ancient Chinese culture, the culture in the Central Plains once had a great influence on the surrounding areas, and at the same time, various cultures in the surrounding areas also had an important influence on the culture in the Central Plains, and so did the Kayo culture. In the Bronze Age, the Qiang people participated in important political and military actions many times. It also played a significant role in the later historical period.