The Sanxingdui site was excavated again after 34 years, is there any new discovery when it is starte

There is such a sentence to describe the Sanxingdui site: "Sleeping for thousands of years, waking up shocks the world." "

The 2020 Sanxingdui Site Archaeological Excavation and Research Consultation Meeting of the Ancient Shu Civilization Protection and Inheritance Project was held in Guanghan, Sichuan Province on the 5th. After a lapse of 34 years, the Sanxingdui site will start excavation again.

There are three loess mounds on the banks of the Yazi River in the north of Chengdu and the western suburbs of Guanghan, so the local name is Sanxingdui. In 1986, the local brick factory found jade when taking soil, and after excavation, archaeological experts found nearly 600 pieces of gold, jade, bronze and other artifacts in a soil pit, which was named No. 1 sacrificial pit. Soon after, experts found the No. 2 sacrificial pit near the No. 1 pit and excavated more than 1,300 cultural relics.

The Sanxingdui civilization, which has been sleeping for thousands of years, shocked the world in one fell swoop.

Nearly 7,000 pieces of various artifacts such as gold, jade, bronze, and ivory have been unearthed in the No. 1 and No. 2 sacrificial pits. The excavation of artifacts such as "Bronze Sacred Tree" and "Longitudinal Bronze Mask" and the discovery of the city wall show that Sanxingdui was the capital of the ancient Shu Kingdom. <>

In April 2019, the Propaganda Department of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee organized the implementation of the "Ancient Shu Civilization Protection and Inheritance Project", and focused on the archaeological work of the Sanxingdui site, which provided an important opportunity for the scientific archaeological work of the Sanxingdui site in the new era and the in-depth excavation of the connotation and value of the ancient Shu civilization.

In August 2019, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology compiled the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Archaeological Work of Sanxingdui Site (2019-2022)", which took settlement archaeology and social archaeology as the main work and research directions of Sanxingdui site in the next few years, and directly promoted the archaeological excavation of Sanxingdui sacrificial area.

From October 22, 2019 to August 8, 2020, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Sichuan Guanghan Sanxingdui Museum at the Sanxingdui site.

Systematic and comprehensive archaeological exploration and archaeological excavations have been carried out around the No. 1 and No. 2 sacrificial pits, and they have been basically identified.

The scope of the sacrificial areas around the No. 1 and No. 2 sacrificial pits and the chronological sequence and spatial pattern of various relics have laid a solid foundation for the next step of excavating the new "sacrificial pit". <>

In this round of exploration, archaeologists found a relic phenomenon next to the museum display table at the site of the No. 1 pit, and after excavation, the archaeologists found a complete "No. 3 pit".

The filling of Pit 3 is similar to Pit 2, with a dark color and soft soil. This rectangular loess pit with a length and width of one meter is exactly the same as the No. 2 pit in terms of direction and size, and the depth of the unearthed artifacts is also the same. Chen De'an, the former head of the Sanxingdui Archaeological Workstation, pointed out that the No. 3 pit and the No. 2 pit can be said to be "twin brothers".

According to the excavated cultural relics of Pits No. 1 and No. 2, experts believe that these two pits are most likely sacrificial pits or burial pits for dead national treasures. The presence of more landfill pits suggests that this may have been a dedicated sacrificial site, and it is more likely that these landfill pits were sacrificial pits. <>

As for what kind of cultural relics will be unearthed in Pit 3 and what new discoveries will be made, let us hope that it will bring us new answers.

Nothing new has been discovered. Because the excavation of the Sanxingdui site is for safety reasons, the whole excavation process is very slow.

Archaeologists found a relic phenomenon next to the museum display table at the site of the No. 1 pit, and after excavation, the archaeologists found a complete "No. 3 pit". Some experts speculate that many artifacts were not buried in Pit No. 2 at that time and were buried in Pit No. 3. If this speculation is confirmed, there are no repaired artifacts in Pit 2, and it is expected that the restoration will be complete.

There are no new discoveries, and it is because the technology is more advanced now, so it is discovered again.

Sanxingdui was first discovered in 1929, and at the beginning of the excavation in 1986, archaeologists found a large number of strange and wonderful bronze heads, masks, bronze ritual vessels and jade artifacts in two mysterious artifact pits.

After 34 years, because there are still many mysteries unsolved in the Sanxingdui site, all the excavations have been started.

The excavation of ancient tombs is the condensation of the history and culture of an era and the wisdom of people, and we modern people must protect the cultural relics and take protective measures for these cultural relics.

Because the technology was relatively backward at that time, the development was only half developed, and the premature development would cause losses to the cultural relics, but now the technology has improved, so it will be developed again.

Cultural relics are the ancestors, leaving us a very valuable wealth, these cultural relics exist underground for thousands of years, if the protection is not in place, the technology is not mature will cause damage to the cultural relics, with the development of technology, the progress of science and technology, we will find step by step.

Because there are many unsolved mysteries that have not been solved, and a lot of information has not been extracted completely, in order to enrich everyone's understanding of Sanxingdui.

Because with the development of technology, there is already a certain excavation technology, through excavation to protect the underground cultural relics as soon as possible.

<>In fact, the archaeological significance of the Sanxingdui site in China has been excavated for decades, and the items brought to people by Sanxingdui do make people feel weird, and at the same time, they also make people feel mysterious. There are also many unsolved mysteries in this archaeological process, but with the continuous discovery of Sanxingdui ruins, archaeologists have slowly solved some mysteries. So what problems were solved during this excavation?

Is Sanxingdui an alien civilization?

In fact, during the archaeological process of the Sanxingdui site, many people passed it on to their gods, and many of them looked like aliens. Over time, it has been rumored that Sanxingdui is likely to be a culture brought by alien civilizations. In fact, according to the chairman of the Chinese Archaeological Society, he said:

Although the bronze longitudinal masks and human figures dug up in Sanxingdui are extremely exaggerated, this is not an alien civilization. Because from the mask can be derived a law portrait, basically a small square face, and the Sichuan people in China are actually more typical characteristics of the square face, although his nose and eyes are more exaggerated, but it is likely to be a manifestation of art, and the object can not be considered as a real human face.

Sanxingdui was once so prosperous, why did it suddenly disappear?

In fact, before this, many people were so prosperous about Samsung, and then suddenly disappeared, and many people speculated that this situation occurred. It may be deliberately filled, or it may be caused by the destruction of the country. However, the archaeologists found that during the excavation, it was confirmed that there were indeed no signs of large-scale flooding, and there was no covenant map, which means that at least it was not caused by flooding.

And some people will think that after a period of prosperity in Sanxingdui, its political center shifted to Jinsha in Chengdu, so people will think that Sanxingdui suddenly disappeared. And these conjectures are also well-founded, because the latest archaeological dating has found that there is a connection between the two, and at the same time it is closely linked. Because in this stage there is a decline, and there is a process of emergence and arising.

According to Chinese archaeologists, although the appearance of bronze masks is extremely exaggerated, it is not an alien civilization, it may be an expression of art form; The second solves the puzzle of why Sanxingdui flourished for a while and then suddenly disappeared.

The new archaeological discovery of the Sanxingdui site has enriched the researchers' understanding of the Sanxingdui site and its culture, made professional scholars have a clearer understanding of the spatial pattern of the sacrificial area, can explore and excavate it more comprehensively, and deepened the understanding of the cultural relationship between the Chengdu Plain and its surroundings.