The main results of the archeological excavation area of the Sanxingdui site sacrifice area are rele

Hongxing News Network June 13th. On June 13, the progressive work progress and main achievements conference of the Sanxingdui site sacrifice area archeological excavation area were held in Guanghan, Sichuan. As a major "archeological China" project, the archeological excavation work of the Sanxingdui site has always attracted much attention. After more than a year of excavation, the newly discovered archeological excavations of the six sacrifice pits also entered the ending stage. What important information at the press conference, let's take a look at:

Basically confirmed that the exterior relics distributed in the sacrifice area of ​​the site sacrifice area are nearly 13,000 square meters related to the sacrifice activities

From 2020 to 2022, a total of 1,834 square meters of excavation area was carried out in the sacrifice area. It basically confirmed that the sacrifice area was roughly northwest -southeast of rectangular distribution. It paid parallel to the Sanxingdui city wall next to the north side, with an area of ​​nearly 13,000 square meters.

The main generations distributed in the sacrifice area are related to the sacrifice activities, including the No. 1 pit, No. 2 pit excavated in 1986, and 6 pits newly discovered. The shaped or rectangular sacrifice pits, as well as the ash ditch on the south, the northwestern buildings. Ashes, building foundations, and small sacrifice pits are unearthed in precious cultural relics such as gold wares, collar copper 瑗, kneeling stone tigers, kneeling stone people, stone tales, stone pupa, jade chisel, turquoise and ivory. Under the existing sacrifice area accumulation (level ⑤ layer), it is also distributed with a sacrifice pit buried or relatively complete jade artifact, indicating that the sacrifice area continues to use for a long time. The sacrifice relics are the late stages of the sacrifice area.

A total of nearly 13,000 cultural relics were unearthed in 6 hits.

As of May 2022, K3, K4, K5, and K6 have ended the field excavation. Among them, K3 and K4 have entered the collation stage. K5 and K6 are carrying out laboratory archeological cleanups. K7 and K8 are undergoing buried cultural relic extraction phases.

K3 unearthed 1293 pieces: 764 copper wares, 104 gold wares, 207 pieces of jade, 88 stones, 11 pieces of pottery, 104 ivory, and 15 other;

79 pieces unearthed in K4: 21 pieces of copper, 9 jade, 2 pieces of pottery, and 47 ivory;

K5 extract 23 pieces: 2 copper wares, 19 gold wares, 2 pieces of jade;

K6 only unearthed two pieces of jade;

706 pieces of K7: 383 copper wares, 52 gold wares, 140 pieces of jade, 1 stone tool, 62 ivory, 68 other;

1052 pieces of K8: 68 copper wares, 368 gold wares, 205 jade wares, 34 stone artifacts, and 377 ivory.

The more typical cultural relics are K3 gold masks, copper tops, portraits, copper top portraits, copper top respected avatars, copper wearing small hats small portrait, wearing crown and copper avatar, copper dragon climbing cover, copper plate dragon device Cover, copper mask, copper round mouth square respected, copper beast first bird round respected, copper little beast, god tree pattern jade, carved jade seat, K4 copper to turn his head to sit on the portrait, k5 gold mask, bird -shaped shape, bird -shaped shape Gold jewelry, ivory carving, K6's jade knife, wooden box, K7's turtle -shaped mesh grid, copper top dragon shape, three -hole jade -shaped, K8 golden mask copper statue, top snake body copper portrait, Copper altar, copper giant beast, copper dragon, copper skirt standing portrait, copper wearing ivory portrait, copper pig nose dragon shape, copper god hall cover, stone pupa, etc.

Sanxingdui newly discovered 6 sacrifice pits have completed all the pits of the carbon fourteen test year.

Since the official excavation of the six sacrifice pits began in October 2020, it has taken the annual test as one of the important academic topics. During the excavation of No. 4 pits, the researchers collected 15 samples on the bamboo charcoal ashes layer, and finally got data for 6 years during the carbon fourteenth year. In early 2021, the 4th pit test was the first to be released, and the probability of 95.4%was around 3148-2966, which was the late Shang Dynasty.

Since then, all the six sacrifice pits that have been excavated have extracted nearly 200 annual samples. After calculation of Bayesian statistics, it is clear that the probability of several pits is within the scope from 1150 BC to 1000 BC. In addition, Taojian bottom cups, Tao Gao neck cans, and Tao Chongkou unearthed in the site area are similar to similar utensils unearthed from the Jinsha site. Therefore, except for the 5th pits and No. 6 pits that have broken relationships, the remaining several pits are consistent. The controversy of the sacrifice pit "buried age.

Multi -piece utensils have not seen the new building base address and small sacrifice pit group before

F1 architectural ruins were destroyed in the Song Dynasty. One may be the groove of the ditch running through the location of the room. When archaeologists cleaned around the ditch and architectural relics, they found small cultural relics such as stone tigers, stone people, golden tablets, and collar copper, stone 琮, stone, jade chisel, and green pine. , And rough workmanship, is not stacked densely like 8 sacrifice pits in Sanxingdui sacrifice area. Is they a item used for praying when F1 built, or will there be a new sacrifice pit in this area?

▲ Stone tigers and gold wares unearthed inside the sacrifice pit

Archaeologists were excavated in this area, and soon found an ivory in the nearby soil. Ivory is a sacred sacrifice supplies in the sacrifice activities of Sanxingdui. Shun Teng touched melon, and they found several ivory gathering one after another. It can be speculated that the small pit of ivory may be a small sacrifice pit. Xu Danyang said that the newly discovered small pit is roughly divided into round and square, with a number of more than 10. They have different sizes, nearly two meters in diameter, and only about 40 cm. They are distributed between the sacrifice pit 3 and 4 in the archeological greenhouse and the surrounding F1 and the south side of the archeological greenhouse. From the perspective of stratigraphic relationships, they are roughly the same as eight sacrifice pits. In addition, there are few living utensils in this area. Archaeologists speculate that this may be the area of ​​the ancient Shu people.

So, what cultural relics will be buried in a small sacrifice pit? Since the newly discovered pit has not yet been officially excavated, it has not been known yet, but it is still likely that it is still a cultural relic unearthed in large pit unearthed in large pits such as ivory, bronze, jade, and gold. It's just that daily sacrifice behavior cannot be buried in large quantities. In the future, the secrets of Xiakeng buried objects will still be announced by archeology.

The discovery of these small pits provided new clues to understanding the nature of the eight sacrifice pits of Samsung Dou. Archaeologists believe that if these pits can be confirmed in the future, these pits are true sacrifice pits, and the eight large pits should be buried pits for sacrifice utensils. Perhaps Sanxingdui did experience some changes before the country's heavy weapon was collectively buried.

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