The Ming Dynasty Burials of Dasongshan

On the Guizhou plateau, at Machang between Pingba and Anshun, the Dasongshan cemetery holds about 2,192 tombs and more than 4,000 artefacts spanning some 1,400 years from the Song dynasty into the Ming, the largest and longest-running excavated cemetery in the province and one of China's ten major archaeological discoveries of 2022. Six people from its Xiejiazhai burial area, all of the Ming period, are gathered here. Their genomes carry mostly Yellow River farmer ancestry with southern East Asian and ancient Guangxi-related components, the profile expected of Han settlers moving into the southwest and mixing with the people already there. Han settlement in Guizhou stayed limited until the mid-Ming and then rose sharply, and these burials date to that era. A few individuals in the cemetery lie close to Hmong-Mien speakers.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Ancient genomes in Southwest China revealed genetic interactions among diverse populations in the historical period.

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  Who were the Ming Dynasty Burials of Dasongshan?

  The Ming Dynasty Burials of Dasongshan (c. 1400-1650 CE, Dasongshan cemetery, Machang, Gui'an New Area, Guizhou, China) are one of the Historical figures entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 6 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Ancient genomes in Southwest China revealed genetic interactions among diverse populations in the historical period".

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