Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars' has mentioned 'Stone' in the following places:
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It consists of thousands of stone jars scattered around the upland valleys and the lower foothills of the central plain of the Xiangkhoang Plateau. | WIKI |
Each site has from one to 400 stone jars. | WIKI |
[3] The stone jars are undecorated, with the exception of a single jar at Site 1. | WIKI |
Since most of the jars have lip rims, it is thought that the jars originally supported lids, although few stone lids have been recorded; this suggests that the bulk of lids were fashioned from perishable materials. | WIKI |
Stone lids with animal carvings have been found at a few sites such as Ban Phakeo (Site 52). | WIKI |
Stone discs have also been found. | WIKI |
Similar are stone grave markers; these stones are unworked, but have been placed intentionally to mark a grave. | WIKI |
Around the stone jars, she found human bones, pottery fragments, iron and bronze objects, glass and stone beads, ceramic weights and charcoal. | WIKI |
Sayavongkhamdy and Peter Bellwood interpreted the stone jars as a central person's primary or secondary burial, surrounded by secondary burials of family members. | WIKI |
While the bomb clearance operations did not involve emptying of jars and thus no additional evidence could be gathered, Van Den Bergh claimed that the stone jars initially may have been used to distill the dead bodies and that the cremated remains within the jars represent the most recent phase in the Plain of Jars. | WIKI |
Another local story states that the jars were molded from natural materials including clay, sand, sugar, and animal products in a type of stone mix. | WIKI |
This led the locals to believe the cave at Site 1 was actually a kiln, and that the jars were fired there and are not actually hewn from stone. | WIKI |
More than 2100 tubular-shaped megalithic stone jars used for funerary practices in the Iron Age give the Plain of Jars its name. | UNESCO |
This serial property of 15 components contains 1325 of these large carved stone jars, stone discs (possibly lids for the jars), secondary burials, grave markers, quarries, manufacturing sites, grave goods and other features. | UNESCO |