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A new round of archaeological discoveries in Sanxingdui has achieved remarkable achievements. It is reported that since October 2020, the Sichuan Archaeological Research Institute has successively launched the archaeological excavation of Pit 3-8 in the Sacrifice Area of sanxingdui site. As of November 30, 2021, a total of 876 pieces of bronze, 510 pieces of gold tools, 454 pieces of jade, 122 pieces of stone tools, 13 pieces of pottery, 415 pieces of ivory, and 15 other pieces have been excavated. The restart of the excavation of the Sanxingdui site has created a new model of multidisciplinary open archaeological work, realized the close integration of the whole process of archaeological excavation, scientific and technological archaeology and cultural relics protection, and demonstrated the highest level of scientific archaeology in China. The archaeological achievements of the Sanxingdui site fully embody the important contributions of the ancient Shu civilization and the Yangtze River culture to The Chinese civilization, and are an important physical example of the brilliant achievements of the origin and development of the diversified integration of Chinese civilization.
At the Pirao site near Daocheng County, Sichuan, an archaeological team from the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology discovered a Paleolithic site with an area of one million square meters (no later than 130,000 years ago). As of September this year, nearly 10,000 stone artifacts have been unearthed. This excavation revealed the continuous stratigraphic accumulation and cultural strata from the late Pleistocene to the Late Pleistocene (no later than 130,000 years ago) in the erosion area of the eastern foothills of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and unearthed more than 6,000 stone products and fire relics in seven cultural layers, completely preserved and systematically demonstrated the Paleolithic cultural development process of "gravel stone tool combination - Ashley technology system - stone shard stone tool system", and established for the first time a coherent and iconic Paleolithic specific period of culture sequence in Sichuan and southwest China. References and yardsticks for comparative studies have been established for other sites and related materials in the region.
Chengdu Daily Jinguan News reporter Duan Zhen
According to the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
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