At Sanxingdui , Chinese archaeologists discovered a workshop for making stone and jade artifacts dating back more than 3,400 years.
The latest archaeological discovery at the legendary site of Sanxingdui helps reveal the origin of previously unearthed cultural artifacts, according to Xinhua News Agency.
The stone and jade workshop in San Tinh Doi is located about 1km north of the nearest newly excavated sacrificial pit.
This discovery is a significant step forward in archaeological excavations at the legendary site in Sichuan province, southwest China , Sichuan Provincial Institute of Archeology and Cultural Relics announced on July 23.
Archaeologists have preliminarily determined that this jade and stone factory contains artifacts such as raw jade, raw stone, finished products as well as fragments. These traces show that there was a relatively complete manual process at Tam Tinh Doi's workshop.
“The discovery of the workshop sheds light on a number of mysteries, such as the origin of the vast quantities of stone and jade raw materials at Sanxingdui, the techniques used in making them, the production process, and the distribution methods. related coordination" - Honglin, who is in charge of archaeological activities at the Tam Tinh Doi relic site, shared.
Since 2022, more than 400 archaeological sites have been identified in Tam Tinh Doi, including high-rise building foundations, ash pits, and places where stone objects were produced and processed. According to the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Archeology and Cultural Relics, more than 4,000 antiquities , including ceramics, jade items and stoneware, have been unearthed at Sanxingdui.
Since its discovery, more than 60,000 artifacts have been unearthed at the legendary Tam Tinh Doi archaeological site. Tam Tinh Doi Museum opened nearly a year ago and has attracted more than 5 million visitors from all over the world.
Also related to Tam Tinh Doi, CGTN station reported that on July 23, more than 50 recovered antiques, including bronze, gold and jade objects unearthed at the Tam Tinh Doi relic site, were displayed in the excavation exhibition. same day. The exhibition is expected to last until the end of 2024.
The artifacts currently on display at the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan City are the result of the ongoing archaeological protection and restoration process at this important archaeological site. Nearly 90% of the antiques in this exhibition are being displayed to the public for the first time.
CGTN informs that, since 2020, a team of archaeologists from Sichuan Provincial Institute of Archeology and Cultural Relics, Peking University, Sichuan University, as well as research institutes and universities Another in China has conducted archaeological excavations at sacrificial pits No. 3 to No. 8 at San Tinh Doi. To date, 17,000 artifacts have been excavated from these six pits, with more than 4,500 relatively intact artifacts identified.
Sanxingdui site has an area of 12 square kilometers, located in Guanghan city, Sichuan province. Tam Tinh Doi is believed to be the ruins of the Shu Kingdom, dating back about 4,500 - 3,000 years ago.
Tam Tinh Doi relic is known as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the world in the 20th century. This archaeological site was discovered in the late 1920s.
