April 22
The list of "100 Archaeological Discoveries in the New Era" was announced
A total of 6 archaeological achievements in Sichuan were selected!
◎ Sichuan Daocheng Pirao ruins
◎ Neolithic ruins of Liujiazhai in Jinchuan, Sichuan
◎ Sichuan Guanghan Sanxingdui ruins sacrifice area
◎ Tomb of The Old Official Shanxi Han mu rafter in Chengdu, Sichuan
◎ Sichuan Shiqu Tubo era stone carvings
◎ Sichuan Pengshan Jiangkou battlefield site at the end of the Ming Dynasty
The selection of "100 Archaeological Discoveries in the New Era" was sponsored by the Chinese Archaeological Society and the China Cultural Relics Newspaper. It aims to systematically review and summarize the great progress and brilliant achievements made by Chinese archaeology in the new era, encourage archaeologists to build archaeology with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style, better understand the long-standing and profound Chinese civilization, and promote the archaeological cause to carry forward the past and create brilliance again at a new starting point.
On the list, there are our "new friends"
There are also a lot of "old friends"
Today, let's go together
Embark on a journey of civilization retrospective across time and space
Sichuan Daocheng Pyro ruins
Located in Liangjia Village, Jinzhu Town, Daocheng County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the Piluo Ruins are a Paleolithic wilderness site. With the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, in 2021, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Peking University formed a joint archaeological team to conduct archaeological excavations. Here, the remains of ancient human life no later than 130,000 years ago have been found, especially the abundant, regular and technologically mature hand axes and thin-bladed axes, which are the most typical cultural remains of the late Ashel stage found in East Asia, and the highest Asheli technology products in the world. The Paleolithic cultural development sequence of "gravel stone tool-hand axe combination -stone slate stone tool" is displayed.
Neolithic ruins of Liujiazhai in Jinchuan, Sichuan
▲ The clay luxury mouth deep belly jar excavated from the Neolithic site of Liujiazhai in Jinchuan According to Xinhua News Agency
The ruins of Liujiazhai are located in Ergali Township, Jinchuan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, with an elevation of about 2650 meters. After being approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and strongly supported by it, from September to November 2011 and from May to September 2012, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, together with the Aba Prefecture and Jinchuan County Cultural Relics Management Institute, carried out archaeological excavations of the site twice, with a total excavation area of 3,500 square meters, and a large number of pottery, stone, bone artifacts and other artificial products and rich animal bones were unearthed from the site. It is reported that the richness of the remains of liujiazhai is beyond any previous excavated contemporaneous site in northwest Sichuan, and it is an extremely important Neolithic site in Sichuan, which provides valuable physical materials for the study of local archeological culture and exchanges in the late Neolithic period. The discovery of the site has pushed the civilization of Jinchuan forward for nearly 2,000 years, proving that Jinchuan already had a developed agricultural civilization as early as the late Neolithic period.
Sichuan Guanghan Sanxingdui ruins sacrifice area
Located in Sanxingdui Town, Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, the Sanxingdui site was discovered in the late 1920s, with a distribution area of about 12 square kilometers, and is the ancient city, ancient country and ancient cultural site with the widest distribution range, the longest duration and the richest cultural connotation found in southwest China.
▲Schematic map of the distribution of the sacrificial area of the Sanxingdui site
In 1986, Sanxingdui No. 1 and No. 2 "Sacrifice Pits" unearthed thousands of precious cultural relics such as bronze statues, bronze sacred trees, bronze masks, gold masks, golden rods, ivory, etc. Most of the cultural relics have never been seen before, revealing a unique bronze culture that caused a sensation and is considered to be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century. In March 2021, the "Archaeology China" major project work progress meeting was held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and the important archaeological discoveries and research results of the Guanghan Sanxingdui site in Sichuan were informed: 6 Sanxingdui cultural "sacrifice pits" were newly discovered, and more than 500 important cultural relics such as gold mask fragments, bird-shaped gold ornaments, gold leaf, painted bronze heads on the eyes, giant bronze masks, bronze sacred trees, ivory, exquisite ivory carving fragments, jade qun, jade tools and other important cultural relics were unearthed.
The tomb of the old official Shanxi Han mu in Chengdu, Sichuan
▲The excavation site of the tomb of the Old Guanshan Shanxi HanMu rafter is based on the Chengdu Museum
The tomb of Chengdu Laoguan Shanxi Hanmu is located in Tianhui Town, a northern suburb of Chengdu. Archaeologists have cleaned out 4 wooden tombs from the Western Han Dynasty, unearthed 2,000-year-old lacquered wood, pottery, bronze, iron and other cultural relics, the most important discovery is more than 920 bamboo janes, more than 50 pieces of wood, 4 pieces of bamboo wooden loom models and human body cavity lacquer portraits. Among the 920 medical bamboo books, some of the medical books are most likely lost classic books of the Bian Que school of Chinese medicine. The 4-piece bamboo wooden loom model is the Shu Brocade Jacquard machine model, which is the first time to unearth a complete Western Han loom model, filling the archaeological gap in the mainland silk textile technology. A series of excavation results, such as the excavation of human meridian lacquer figures with small characters engraved with "heart" and "lungs", are the first archaeological discoveries in China.
Stone carvings from the Tubo era of Sichuan Shiqu
▲Stone carvings (partial) of the Tubo period of the Shiqu are based on the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
In 2013, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, together with the Palace Museum and the Cultural Bureau of Shiqu County, Ganzi Prefecture, conducted an investigation of the early stone carvings in Shiqu County, and successively found three remains of Tubo period stone carvings in Shiqu County, a total of 17 paintings. The newly discovered stone carvings are well preserved and rich in themes, including the Five Buddhas, the Great Sun Rulai Statue, the Bodhisattva Statue, the Tara Statue, the Ancient Tibetan Inscription, etc., all of which are typical themes and contents popular in the Tubo period, and the image features are in line with the typical style of the Tubo period, and the inscriptions of the Tubo period have been found. The large distribution of Tubo stone carvings has made Shiqu County an important node of the Tangbo Ancient Road, providing new information for the direction of the Tangbo Ancient Road or the examination of the route of Princess Wencheng into Tibet, and filling the data gap in the important links of the Tangbo Ancient Road in the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
The site of the late Ming Dynasty battlefield at the mouth of the Pengshan River in Sichuan
The Western King's Reward Gold Coin excavated from the Shenyin Site at the mouth of the Pengshan River in Sichuan is according to Guangming Daily
The site of the late Ming Dynasty Battlefield at Jiangkou is located in the Minjiang River channel of Jiangkou Town, Pengshan District, Meishan City, Sichuan Province. With the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, together with the Underwater Cultural Heritage Protection Center of the National Cultural Relics Bureau and the Pengshan District Cultural Relics Protection and Management Institute of Meishan City, conducted the first archaeological excavation of the battlefield site of the late Ming Dynasty in Jiangkou in 2017, with an excavation area of 10,100 square meters and more than 30,000 cultural relics in the water, which proved the legend of Zhang Xianzhong's sinking silver at the mouth of the River. The excavations at the site include gold seals belonging to Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi regime, gold coins, silver coins and "Dashun Tongbao" copper coins, and silver ingots inscribed with the "Daxi" national and year names. In addition, there are gold and silver seals belonging to the Ming Dynasty's royal palace, gold and silver seals, rings, earrings, hairpins and other types of gold and silver jewelry, iron knives, iron swords, iron spears and iron arrows and other weapons, which are of great significance to the study of the political system, social economy and material culture of the Ming Dynasty and even the social and historical trends of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
These archaeological results
It is just a tip of the long history of the Land of Prachuap Khiri Khan
How many "surprises" are hidden in this land?
Let's look forward to it together
More new discoveries in Sichuan archaeology!
Source | Wenbo China, China Archaeology Official Website, Weijinchuan, Guangming Daily, Sichuan Civilization Network
Edit | Zhang Liping