Agriculture irriguée et art bouddhique ancien au cœur du Taklamakan (Karadong, Xinjiang, IIe-IVe siècles) - article ; n°1 ; vol.49, pg 34-52

Wang Binhua, Abdurassul Idriss, Corinne Debaine-Francfort

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Arts asiatiques - Année 1994 - Volume 49 - Numéro 1 - Pages 34-52
The Sino-French Archaeological Expedition in Keriya has been settled in the frame of an official program of field cooperation signed between the UPR n° 315 in CNRS (France) and the Institute of Archaeology in Xinjiang. In a first stage, the program is focussed on the exploration of the Keriya valley in Southern Xinjiang (Khotan region). The aim is to find remains of an ancient human occupation along the ancient dry courses and deltas of the river, to date this occupation, and to study it in relation with the moves of the river in an environment turning into a desert. A first survey has been conducted in 1991. New sites has been discovered which are the vestiges of an ancient oasis approximatively dated between the 2nd and the 4th centuries A.D., with Karadong as the center of it. In 1993, a joint excavation has been carried out at Karadong (the first joint excavation undertaken in China since 1949). New archaeological remains has been discovered, including houses, craft areas, irrigation canals, traces of fields and orchards, ceramics showing contacts with the Kushan world and Central Asia, objects in metal, wood and glass, fragments of fabrics, etc. We also excavated a small square Buddhist temple with many fragments of wall paintings of an original style, one of the most ancient ever discovered in Xinjiang.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Sciences et techniques

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• Publié par: Arts-asiatiques
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1994
• Nombre de lectures: 27
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Corinne Debaine-Francfort Abduressul Idriss Wang Binhua

Agriculture irriguée et art bouddhique ancien au cœur du Taklamakan (Karadong, Xinjiang, IIe-IVe siècles) In: Arts asiatiques. Tome 49, 1994. pp. 34-52.

Abstract The Sino-French Archaeological Expedition in Keriya has been settled in the frame of an official program of field cooperation signed between the UPR n° 315 in CNRS (France) and the Institute of Archaeology in Xinjiang. In a first stage, the program is focussed on the exploration of the Keriya valley in Southern Xinjiang (Khotan region). The aim is to find remains of an ancient human occupation along the ancient dry courses and deltas of the river, to date this occupation, and to study it in relation with the moves of the river in an environment turning into a desert. A first survey has been conducted in 1991. New sites has been discovered which are the vestiges of an ancient oasis approximatively dated between the 2nd and the 4th centuries A.D., with Karadong as the center of it. In 1993, a joint excavation has been carried out at Karadong (the first joint excavation undertaken in China since 1949). New archaeological remains has been discovered, including houses, craft areas, irrigation canals, traces of fields and orchards, ceramics showing contacts with the Kushan world and Central Asia, objects in metal, wood and glass, fragments of fabrics, etc. We also excavated a small square Buddhist temple with many fragments of wall paintings of an original style, one of the most ancient ever discovered in Xinjiang.

Citer ce document / Cite this document : Debaine-Francfort Corinne, Idriss Abduressul, Binhua Wang. Agriculture irriguée et art bouddhique ancien au cœur du Taklamakan (Karadong, Xinjiang, IIe-IVe siècles). In: Arts asiatiques. Tome 49, 1994. pp. 34-52. doi : 10.3406/arasi.1994.1351 http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript rtic _ _ _ _ _ _ /a le/arasi 0004-3958 1994 num 49 1 1351