Archaeological Discovery of Painted Pottery in Xinjiang

Painted pottery found in Xinjiang includes pottery pots, pots, cups, pots and Tao Pan, most of which are characterized by utensils with ear handles. The basic color style of painted pottery in Xinjiang is to paint black on red pottery clothes, and also to paint red patterns on orange or white pottery clothes. Patterns seem to be based on triangular patterns, including solid inverted triangular patterns, large inverted triangular mesh patterns, or vortex patterns, vertical stripes, parallel short patterns, branch patterns, arc patterns and water ripples, as well as chessboard patterns. These colorful patterns reflect the colorful features of primitive culture in Xinjiang. Painted pottery unearthed in Xinjiang is similar to Shajing culture in Hexi, Gansu in terms of shape, pattern and production method, and is influenced by painted pottery culture in Gansu. Painted pottery unearthed in the Ili River Basin are mostly earth-rock tombs, which are widely distributed in the Ili River Basin, almost all over the valleys and grasslands. Among the funerary objects with painted pottery, there are more ironware than bronzes, so these tombs are relatively late. Archaeological studies show that most of them belong to the remains of Seck and Wusun from 2500 to 2000 years ago.