The Sanxingdui Site

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract The Sanxingdui site is a Neolithic and early Bronze Age site in the Sichuan Basin and home to a civilisation unrecorded in Chinese historical sources. Propelled to national prominence by the discovery of extraordinary bronze artefacts between 1986 and 2021, Sanxingdui is a distinctive case study of how field archaeology in a regional setting has been carried out and interpreted, and how it fits into the practice of Chinese archaeology. This chapter provides a basic survey of the Sanxingdui excavation. The first section introduces the site. The second reviews the history of fieldwork at Sanxingdui and its results, including the institutions and scholars involved in the work, the methods used, and the major discoveries. The third reviews scholarly debates about Sanxingdui, particularly concerning the relationship between Sanxingdui and contemporary cultures elsewhere and how its metallurgy relates to pre-existing understandings of China’s Bronze Age. Those debates raise crucial questions related to the history and practice of Chinese archaeology, especially what the excavations and interpretations of Sanxingdui tell us about a paradigm of centripetal development for ‘Chinese civilisation’.
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Authors Anke HEIN, Jay Xu, Jianjun Mei, Julia Lovell
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197800324.013.0010
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197800324.013.0010
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