贵州是我国著名的"喀斯特省"，典型的喀斯特环境对多彩贵州民族文化的生成起决定性影响。而贵州墓葬文化具有独特性、多元性和连续性，是研究文化与环境响应的典型"剖面"。因此，本项目选取历史时期贵州民族传统墓葬文化为研究对象，从文化生态学((Cultural Ecology)的视角，运用考古学、民族学、生态人类学和历史地理学的理论与方法，以人地关系为线索，系统地研究贵州墓葬文化与喀斯特环境的互动及其演变规律，指出贵州各民族墓葬的类型、特点、时空变迁规律和原因无不受喀斯特环境的影响，另一方面贵州传统墓葬是对喀斯特环境作用的响应，墓葬文化蕴涵丰富的生态观，体现了人类与大自然的和谐。由此揭示地域人地关系的独特性，对于了解贵州地域文化的空间特点与规律有一定价值。

Guizhou is a famous Karst Province in China.The typical karst environment in Guizhou plays a decisive impact on national culture.The burial culture in Guizhou is the typical section plane to study the cultural response to geographical environments owning to the unique, diversity and continuity of Burial culture.Therefore, on the view of Cultural Ecology and the theory or methods of archeology, ethnology, anthropology and historical geography,the burial culture in Guizhou was analyzed, and relationship between karst environment and Burial culture in Guizhou were explained in this research project.Which is an interpretation of change of relationship between karst environment and the burial culture in Guizhou. The karst environment with multiple stones and holes generated both stone worship and hole worship, The two worships created two kinds of burial culture in Guizhou.One was stone burial culture, Include Stone chamber tomb, stone tomb and raw base grave,the other was cliff burial culture,Include Coffin burial,rock burial and cave burial.The type characteristics and causes of spatial and temporal changes of burial of all ethnic groups in Guizhou were all affected by the karst environment.At the same time,the traditional burial in Guizhou were responsed on karst environment.Burial is the way of land use according to local conditions. With mush ecological concept and the harmony of man and nature,so it is an important channel to study the relationship between man and nature.Thus burial culture of Guizhou has many inspirations for us today to solve the contradiction of funeral reform or rocky desertification control.