Abstract: In recent years, the palaeo-diet is one of the important researches in the archaeological field. Chemical elements of human bones can supply a lot of valuable information to reconstruct the model of ancient diet. In this paper, nine chemical elements of human bones in Bronze age from Cemetery No. 4 at Hejing, Xinjiang were determined by ICP-AES. They are ferrum(Fe), zincum (Zn), calcium(Ca), phosphorum(P), manganum(Mn), magnesium(Mg ), strontium(Sr), barium (Ba) and cuprum(Cu). Results indicated that the ancient inhabitants in Chawuhu lived mainly on the meat products with only a small amount of plants. At the same time, we guess the inhabitants of this site could cultivate some plants such as barley and wheat.

Key words: Cemetery No.4 at Chawuhu; Human bone; Chemical elements analysis