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Sanxingdui
Chinese Social Sciences Today
A sculpture unearthed from the Sanxingdui site in 1986 Photo: CFP
The history of Sanxingdui is completely absent from any archives, and archaeological discoveries have revealed a previously unknown regional culture. However, Shi Jinsong, a research fellow from the Institute of Archaeology at CASS, believed that the Sanxingdui culture neither appeared suddenly nor disappeared mysteriously, and it had connections and exchanges with other cultures at that time. In the Chengdu Plain where the Sanxingdui site is located, archaeologists discovered eight Neolithic sites. The development of local Neolithic culture laid the foundation for the birth of the Sanxingdui culture. The concept of using a gold scepter and other gold artifacts as symbols of power at Sanxingdui might have come from northwest China. Studies show that most ancient scepters were unearthed in northwest China, which date back to 5,000 to 3,000 years ago.