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Chashancun Cemetery covers the tomb of Murong Zhi at Chashan village in the Qilian Mountains, Gansu, and the hemp found among the grain in its silk bags: the site and its excavation, the burial and its Tuyuhun context, the plant remains, their identification and isotope analysis, and the readings of the hemp.
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- Lu et al. (2022), Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 972891: the location, coordinates and elevation of the tomb, the 2019 rescue excavation, the epitaph and its date, the Tuyuhun background, the counts of plant remains in the fifth, seventh and ninth bags, the morphological identification, the oxygen-isotope and trace-element results, and the authors' readings.
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- How many bags. The introduction of Lu et al. speaks of plant remains "collected from four broken silk bags"; the methods give nine silk bags from the coffin chamber, four of which were damaged. The article follows the methods.
- The counts cover three bags. The 426 hemp remains and the totals of 265,718 plant remains and 253,647 crop remains are the sums of the three sample bags (the fifth, seventh and ninth) studied at Lanzhou University, not of all nine. The authors take the three as representative because the grain had been mixed before packing. The article gives the counts as those of the three bags.
- Mean oxygen-isotope value of hemp. Table 2 gives the eight hemp samples a range of 19.4 to 20.6‰ and a mean of 21.1 ± 0.4‰, which lies outside the range. The article gives the range only.
- Name of the tomb's owner. The text of the paper writes "Mu Rongzhi"; its funding statement writes "Murong Zhi". The Tuyuhun royal house was the Murong clan, which the paper also names, so the article uses Murong Zhi.
- Seeds or other parts. The paper counts the hemp as "hemp remains" alongside cereal grains and pictures them in its Figure 2E; it also says that all the plant remains were composed of chaff. The finds are given in the infobox as seeds, the closest fixed value, and in the prose as hemp remains.
Georeferencing
The coordinates (37.68, 102.38) are the position Lu et al. (2022) print for the tomb. No gazetteer holds the cemetery. The point's elevation, about 2,710 m, is close to the 2,672 m the paper gives, and the point falls in Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, where the paper places the tomb. Éloise 23:07, 29 October 2026 (+07)