It is considered as the oldest of the Tarim mummies burial sites, going back to 2135–1939 BCE for its lowest layers.

Grave goods in these tombs include bone ornaments, antler awls, wooden basins, stone implements, and bowls.

[1] The second type of Qäwrighul was characterised by shaft graves surrounded by concentric circles of poles.

[1] From the limited remains of the Qäwrighul culture it appears that their economy included wheat, sheep, goat and horses.

Its burials in shaft-graves, lined with stone or timber, and surrounded by enclosures, and the presence of offering-places associated with the heads and legs of horses, are strikingly similar to the graves of cultures located further west on the Eurasian Steppe.

[1] A revised craniometric analyses by Hemphill & Mallory (2004) on the early Tarim mummies (Qäwrighul) failed to demonstrate close phenetic affinities to "Europoid populations", but rather found that they formed their own cluster, distinct from the European-related Steppe pastoralists of the Andronovo and Afanasievo cultures, or the inhabitants of the Western Asian BMAC culture.

[7] Autosomal genetic evidence suggests that the earliest Tarim people arose from locals of primarily Ancient North Eurasian descent with significant Northeast Asian admixture.