Sanxingdui Site is located in the south bank of Yahe River in the northwest of Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, China. Its discovery began when Yan Daocheng, a local farmer, accidentally discovered a pit of jade and stone tools while digging ditches in 1929. 1in the spring of 934, Ge, curator of the Museum of West China University, and Lin Mingjun, assistant, formed an archaeological team, which was presided over by Luo Yucang, the county magistrate of Guanghan County, and carried out a 10-day excavation near the jade and stone tools discovered by Yan, and gained a lot.
Sanxingdui Site is located in the south bank of Yahe River in the northwest of Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, China. It is 40 kilometers south of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, and 7 kilometers east of Guanghan City. This is a huge site group composed of many ancient cultural relics. 1988+ 10 was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit in October. Archaeologists divide the cultural remains of the site group into four periods, one is early accumulation, which belongs to the late Neolithic culture, and the second to fourth periods belong to the bronze culture. The age of the site group is from the late Neolithic Age to the late Shang Dynasty and the early Zhou Dynasty, which lasted for nearly 2000 years.
The discovery of Sanxingdui site began when local farmer Yan Daocheng accidentally discovered a jade stone pit while digging ditches in 1929. 193 1 In the spring of, after hearing the news, Dong, a British missionary in Guanghan County, found the local garrison to help with propaganda, protection and investigation, and handed over the collected jade articles to the Museum of West China University opened by Americans for safekeeping. According to the clue provided by Dong, Ge, curator of the Museum of West China University, and Lin Mingjun, assistant, formed an archaeological team headed by Luo Yucang, the county magistrate of Guanghan County, in the spring of 1934, and conducted a ten-day excavation near the jade found by Yan. Excavate rich. Based on these materials, Ge compiled the Hanzhou Excavation Briefing.
Timeline:
1929, the discovery of Sanxingdui site began with a jade stone pit accidentally discovered by local farmer Yan Daocheng when digging ditches that year.
From 1980 to 198 1 year, the remnants of Neolithic sites were cleared up and tens of thousands of specimens were unearthed, hence the name Sanxingdui culture.
1982 and 1984, archaeologists conducted two excavations in the southwest of Sanxingdui site and Xiquankan site respectively, and found the latest remains of Sanxingdui site.
From June 65438 to July 0986, two sacrificial pits in Sanxingdui were unearthed one after another, and a large number of unique and exquisite cultural relics attracted the attention of academic circles at home and abroad to the ancient Shu civilization in southwest China.
1988, Sanxingdui Site was independently evaluated by the State Council, which was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit that year.
From 1989 to 1995, Sanxingdui Workstation tried to excavate the outer soil ridge of Sanxingdui six times, found out the nature of the artificial city wall, and delineated the area of Sanxingdui ancient city, covering an area of 3.6 square kilometers.
1992, the foundation stone of Sanxingdui Museum was laid.
1May, 1993, Sanxingdui cultural relics were exhibited at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Although there is only one, it has caused great repercussions in Switzerland and Europe. After that, European countries frequently invited Sanxingdui treasures to be exhibited in Europe.
1997, Sanxingdui Museum was completed and opened, and its basic display won the top ten excellent exhibitions of national museums in that year.
In 2002, bronze sacred trees and seals unearthed in Sanxingdui were listed in the first batch of cultural relics prohibited from leaving the country.
From 20 12 to 20 15, Sanxingdui archaeology discovered the important cultural remains of a large house foundation site and several sections of city walls, and Sanxingdui ancient city walls were surrounded.
From April 2065438 to April 2009, Sichuan issued the "Implementation Opinions on Strengthening the Reform of Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization", and the joint application of Sanxingdui and Jinsha Site became a highlight.
On March 20th, 20021year, more than 500 important cultural relics have been unearthed from six sacrificial pits newly discovered in the archaeological work of Sanxingdui site, among which ivory was found in three pits. On March 2nd1day, Sanxingdui archaeology continued, and an ivory weighing 100 kilograms was completely extracted from No.4 pit.