Kayue culture

The Kayue culture (Chinese卡 约 文化/卡 约 文化, pinyin Kǎyuē Wenhua, English Kayue Culture) was a Bronze Age culture in Northwest China in the area of the upper reaches of the Huang He (Yellow River ) and its tributary the Huang Shui. It was discovered in 1923 in the villages Kayue卡 约 村and Xiaxihe下 西 河村of Yunguchuan in Huangzhong in the field of China's Qinghai province and is named after the village Kayue.

The former name of Kayue culture was Kayao culture (Chinese卡 窑 文化, pinyin Kǎyáo Wenhua, English Kayao Culture). They used the Siwa culture was attributed. It is dated to the period of around 900-600 BC. There is a culture of the ancient people of the Qiang.

She was mainly in the area of today's places Minhe, Ledu, Ping'an, Xining, Huzhu, Datong, Haiyan, Gangca ( Gangcha ), Tongren and Huangzhong spread, it was discovered with over 1,000 graves over 200 sites and tombs. Among them was the Bronze Age burial ground of Suzhi ( Suzhi mudi苏志 墓地) in the Autonomous District Xunhua the Salar.

From the discovered cultural objects, the gold artifacts are considered particularly valuable because they provide clues to melt gold, manufactory and use an early time. They reflect the cultural uniqueness of the ancient people of the Qiang (羌), which inhabited the north-eastern area of the Qinghai -Tibet Plateau.