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Sanxingdui
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thumb|Sanxingdui bronze heads with gold foil masks Sanxingdui () is an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China. Largely discovered in 1986, following a preliminary finding in 1927, archaeologists excavated artifacts that radiocarbon dating placed in the 12th–11th centuries BC. The archaeological site is the type site for the Sanxingdui culture that produced these artifacts, archeologists have identified the locale with the ancient kingdom of Shu, which suggests the presence of a unique civilization in this region before the state of Qin conquered t
Key facts
- Archaeological culture.name
- Sanxingdui culture
- Archaeological culture.region
- Chengdu Plain
- Archaeological culture.period
- Bronze Age China
- Archaeological culture.dates
- c. 1700 – c. 1150 BC
- Archaeological culture.typesite
- Sanxingdui
- Archaeological culture.majorsites
- Guanghan, Deyang
- Archaeological culture.precededby
- Baodun culture
- Archaeological culture.followedby
- JinshaBa and Shu
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Wikidata facts
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- culture
- Baodun culture
- Commons category
- Sanxingdui
- catalog code
- 200
- heritage designation
- Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
- Commons gallery
- 三星堆遗址
- facet of
- Sichuan
- time period
- Bronze Age
- time of discovery or invention
- 1927-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Background
- Archaeological site
- Discovery
- Culture
- Metallurgy
- Cosmology
- Images
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|Sanxingdui bronze heads with gold foil masks Sanxingdui () is an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China. Largely discovered in 1986, following a preliminary finding in 1927, archaeologists excavated artifacts that radiocarbon dating placed in the 12th–11th centuries BC. The archaeological site is the type site for the Sanxingdui culture that produced these artifacts, archeologists have identified the locale with the ancient kingdom of Shu, which suggests the presence of a unique civilization in this region before the state of Qin conquered the area in 316 BCE. The artifacts are displayed in the Sanxingdui Museum located near the city of Guanghan.
Sanxingdui is on the UNESCO list of tentative World Heritage Sites, along with the Jinsha site and the tombs of boat-shaped coffins.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sanxingdui” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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