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Jirzankal Cemetery covers the Jirzankal (Quman) cemetery in the Tashkurgan valley of the eastern Pamirs: the site and its excavation, its dating, the wooden braziers and the residue analysis that found burnt cannabis in them, and the readings of that find.
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- Ren et al. (2019), Science Advances 5, with its supplementary materials: the site, the excavation of 2013–2014, the braziers, the GC-MS results (Table 1) and the radiocarbon dates (Table S1, taken from Shen et al. and Wang et al.), and the interpretations.
- Shen et al. (2015), PLOS ONE 10: the 70 wooden objects and their woods, the radiocarbon date of the brazier ("fire altar") from tomb M15 and the fire-veneration reading.
- Wang et al. (2016), Scientific Reports 6: the twelve radiocarbon dates (Table 3) and the strontium isotope results.
Source discrepancies
- Name. Jirzankal (Ren et al., Wang et al.), Ji'erzankale (Shen et al.), Quman (Ren et al., as an alternative name). The article uses Jirzankal and gives Quman.
- Number of graves. Wang et al. give 39 graves excavated in 2013–2014; Shen et al. number the tombs M1 to M50 in three districts (7, 34 and 9); Ren et al. give four zones, with 7, 34 and 8 tombs in zones A to C and more in zone D. The article gives no total.
- Number of braziers. Ren et al. analysed ten braziers from eight tombs; Shen et al. list eleven "fire altars" among their 70 objects. The article gives the ten analysed.
- Juniper. Shen et al. call juniper rare in the Tashkurgan region; Wang et al. place junipers on shady slopes near the cemetery. The article gives only the count of juniper objects.
- Coordinates. Wang et al. print the cemetery's latitude and longitude the wrong way round; Ren et al. and Shen et al. place it at about 37°51′ N, 75°12′ E.
- "Earliest". The article quotes Ren et al.'s own phrase, "some of the earliest directly dated and scientifically verified evidence for ritual cannabis smoking", and does not restate it as a fact.
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File:Cannabis-Jirzankal-brazier-drawing.jpg(lead), a drawing to be made: a small round wooden brazier with a burning hollow under 15 centimetres across, its inside charred and holding a few stones, as Ren et al. and Shen et al. describe the braziers. No measurements beyond those are to be invented.File:Cannabis-Iron-Age-burial-sites-Central-Eurasia-map.jpg(Site and excavation), a map to be drawn: the same map is reserved on Yanghai Tombs and Pazyryk burials, with four labelled dots at Yanghai, Jiayi, Jirzankal and the Pazyryk barrows and the dates given in those articles.