A Study on the Using of Animal Resources Centered on the Animals Sacrifices of Xindianzi Cemetery
Animal sacrifices is a typical burial custom of northern pastoralists,and the types and numbers of animals sacrifices are inextricably linked to the ecological environment and economic production methods of each region.This paper takes the animal sacrifices in Xindianzi Cemetery as the research object,through analyzing the characteristics of the herd structure,age and gender structure of the animal sacri-fices,and combining with the ethnography and the characteristics of the current animal husbandry produc-tion,we believe that the Xindianzi people have a diversity of animal resources,mainly focusing on the acquisition of meat resources,and maximize the acquisition of milk and fur resources.The study on the utilization of animal resources by pastoralists is of great significance in exploring the mode of nomadic e-conomic production and human-environment interaction.