Sanxingdui

Sanxingdui culture
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Geographical range	Chengdu Plain
Period	Bronze Age China
Dates	c. 1700 – c. 1150 BC
Type site	Sanxingdui
Major sites	Guanghan, Deyang
Preceded by	Baodun culture
Followed by	Jinsha; Ba and Shu
Chinese name
Chinese	三星堆文化
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Sānxīngduī wénhuà

Sanxingdui (Chinese: 三星堆; pinyin: Sānxīngduī; lit. 'Three Star Mound') is an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China. Largely discovered in 1986,^[2] following a preliminary finding in 1927,^[3] archaeologists excavated artifacts that radiocarbon dating placed in the twelfth–eleventh centuries BC.^[4] The archaeological site is the type site for the Sanxingdui culture that produced these artifacts, archeologists have identified the locale with the ancient kingdom of Shu. The artifacts are displayed in the Sanxingdui Museum located near the city of Guanghan.^[4]

^ Flad, Rowan; Chen, Pochan (2013). Ancient Central China: Centers and Peripheries Along the Yangtze River. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-0-521-72766-2.
^ Mystery of Ancient Chinese Civilization's Disappearance Explained
^ Xu, Jay (2011). "Lithic Artifacts from Yueliangwan: Research Notes on an Early Discovery at the Sanxingduiu Site". In Jerome Silbergeld; Dora C. Y. Ching; Judith G. Smith; Alfreda Merck (eds.). Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong, Volume I. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-15298-1.
^ ^a ^b Sage, Steven F. (1992). Ancient Sichuan and the unification of China. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 16. ISBN 0791410374.
^ "Archaeological Sites of the Ancient Shu State: Site at Jinsha and Joint Tombs of Boat- shaped Coffins in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province; Site of Sanxingdui in Guanghan City, Sichuan Province 29C.BC-5C.BC". UNESCO. Retrieved 23 February 2018.