云南大理白族自治州祥云县大波那木椁铜棺墓,是滇西青铜文化中特点较为突出的大型墓葬。20世纪60年代对其进行了发掘,出土了上百件铜器,为滇西地区首次科学发掘的青铜时代墓葬。出土遗物有铜棺、鼓、农具、兵器、工具和装饰品等,其中铜棺、鼓、马和纺织工具等遗物为滇西地区考古发掘中首次出土。40多年来,祥云大波那木椁铜棺墓作为滇西少数民族地区具有代表性的青铜文化墓葬,
Some copper and bronze wares unearthed from the bronze coffin tomb at Dabona Cemetery, Xiangyun County, Yunnan Province have been identified by metallographic method. The re- sults showed that they were made of copper, tin bronze and lead tin bronze with very low tin proportion, the alloy ratios of which reflected an immature development stage. The microscopic structures of these metal wares showed that the techniques applied to them were diversified, including after-casting thermal processing and cold processing. The diversified manufacturing techniques implied the multiple sources of Dabona Bronze Culture. The 14C dating results of the wooden outer coffin unearthed from Dabona Cemetery showed that the date of this bronze coffin tomb was the early to the mid Warring-States Period.