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Jiayi Cemetery covers the Jiayi cemetery near Turpan and its cannabis: the 13 plants laid over the man in tomb M231 and the plant fragments in the pots of three other tombs, with the site, the radiocarbon dates, the botanical and chemical analyses, and the readings of the finds.
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- Jiang et al. (2016), Economic Botany 70: 213–221: the site and its coordinates, the salvage excavation of 240 tombs, the assignment to the Subeixi culture, tomb M231 and the arrangement of the plants, the cannabis in tombs M156, M157 and M237, the radiocarbon table, the morphological description, and the readings of season, local growth and ritual or medicinal use.
- Ren et al. (2019), Science Advances 5: eaaw1391: the chemical analysis of the M231 cannabis (cannabinol, cannabidiol, cannabicyclol), its date of about 790–520 BCE, and the shroud as about 800–400 BCE and as evidence of ritual use.
Source discrepancies
- Dates. Three forms are in print. Jiang et al. (2016) date the cemetery to 2800–2400 years before present, and their Table 1 gives the M231 cannabis stem as 790–520 BCE (2σ). Ren et al. (2019) give the M231 plants as about 790–520 BCE and the shroud as about 800–400 BCE. The article gives all three, attributed. The infobox range, 890–520 BCE, runs from the earliest to the latest of the three cannabis samples dated directly (fruits from M156 and M157, the stem from M231). The cannabis in tomb M237 is not dated directly; the tomb's human bone gives 540–390 BCE.
- "Horsetails". Jiang et al. name the Typha found in the tombs "horsetails"; Typha is the cattail or bulrush. The article says cattails.
- The man's description. Jiang et al. describe the man in M231 by a racial category. The article gives his sex and age only.
- Pagination. The online-first version of Jiang et al. (2016) is paginated 1–9; the citation gives the issue's pages, 213–221.
- Jiang et al. (2016) do not say when the cemetery was excavated or by whom; the infobox leaves both empty.
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No point is given. Jiang et al. (2016) print the cemetery's position as 42°12′ N, 89°11′ E. That point lies about 80 km south of the city of Turpan, at an elevation of about 1,290 m in the hills south of the Turpan basin, while the same paper places the cemetery in stony desert at the edge of an oasis near Turpan, where grapevines are grown. No gazetteer holds the cemetery, so no other position is given. An earlier version of the infobox showed the printed position. Éloise 23:07, 29 October 2026 (+07)