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Submitted by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 05 August 2009  Page Views: 8175

Multi-periodSite Name: Jinsha Site and Museum
Country: China
NOTE: This site is 405.372 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Chengdu
Latitude: 30.684000N  Longitude: 104.011000E
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Jinsha Site and Museum
Jinsha Site and Museum submitted by davidmorgan : The excavation site. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in China

On February 8th, 2001, the discovery of the ritual site revealed the secrets of Jinsha kingdom. From the archaeological features and associated artefacts found at the site, we believe that it is most likely to have been used as a ceremonial place located at the riverside area by the royal lineage of the ancient Shu kingdom. The whole ritual site covers an area of 15,000 square metres, corresponding with the late Shang through the early Spring and Autumn period of the Central Plains area (about 1200-650 BCE).

To date more than six thousand artefacts have been excavated from this site, including gold wares, jades, lithic tools, lacquered wood wares, and ceramic vessels. Aside from these, tons of ivories, boar tusks and deer antlers have also been identified. The excavation is still in progress, and many cultural relics are still buried in the earth as well. We believe that it will bring us more and more surprises.
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Jinsha Site and Museum
Jinsha Site and Museum submitted by davidmorgan : "The Sun and Immortal Bird" - a wafer thin piece of gold. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Jinsha Site and Museum submitted by davidmorgan : Some of the ceramics found at the site. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Jinsha Site and Museum submitted by davidmorgan : All the finds have been removed to the museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Jinsha Site and Museum
Jinsha Site and Museum submitted by davidmorgan : "Bu Jia - The role of divination took on great importance in the course of offering activities. Pyromantic divinations were normally conducted on tortoise breastplates. Usually, the ancient diviners pretreated by drilling or chiselling on one side of the plates before burning. The burnt breastplates showed cracks on the other side. Cracks on different parts of the plate portended different fat... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Jinsha Site and Museum
Jinsha Site and Museum submitted by davidmorgan : Diorama of how the site might have appeared in 1000 BCE.

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Sifting through the past by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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The Chengdu Plain lies flat and fertile in central China’s Sichuan Basin. Cut by tributaries of one of China’s most important rivers, the mighty Yangtze, the plain is something of a rarity in the hilly region, making it ideal for agriculture, now and in antiquity.

Harvard archaeologists are at work there, plumbing the roots of some of China’s early civilizations. The world’s most-populous country traces its past to the Qin dynasty, the first to unify large parts of the nation. The Qin arose just north of Chengdu, and its fertile fields made it their first target of expansion.

“The first region conquered outside of their homeland was the Sichuan Basin,” said Rowan Flad, an associate professor of anthropological archaeology who is leading an international team of researchers working in the region. “It was the breadbasket for the Qin army as they conquered.”

Flad has been at work on the plain since 2005 on one of its rivers, the Min, which served as an irrigation system during the Qin dynasty, roughly 210 years B.C.E.

Flad is collaborating with archaeologists from several Chinese and American institutions, including Peking University, National Taiwan University, the Chengdu City Institute of Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of California, Los Angeles, and McGill University.

Together, the collaborators are conducting a massive survey of the region, probing known sites and seeking unknown ones in an effort to better understand the region’s past. Survey techniques commonly used by archaeologists in more arid, high-visibility areas aren’t useful in the Chengdu Plain because surface materials are obscured by the ongoing agricultural uses of the land. Team members have to walk the fields exhaustively, cutting through rice paddies and drilling 2-meter-deep survey holes at regular intervals with hand augers.

Because the Chinese government frowns on expansive digs not prompted by road or construction projects, Flad said the diggers can only expand survey holes that turn up artifacts into 1-meter-square pits, when necessary.

“We’re trying to understand patterns of landscape use and to find sites in a systematic way that tells us something about those patterns,” Flad said. “What we’re looking for in this landscape is how settlement changed over time.”

So far, pottery sherds and building remains have been found that predate even the Qin dynasty, going as far back as the Baodun culture, about 2,500 years B.C.E., which created a series of walled settlements across the Chengdu Plain.

Researchers do much of their work in December and January, when rice cultivation is at a lull and they can get access to fields that aren’t flooded. They typically break into teams using a variety of tools and techniques, including the auger-wielding survey team, which walks predetermined transects and digs holes at regular intervals. A second group explores surface remains using traditional survey techniques. A third seeks to understand patterns of landscape changes such as altered river courses through geomorphology, while a fourth explores known archaeological or active construction sites. The final group processes the data, resulting in computerized maps that can help guide future explorations.

Flad said the international nature of the work is important, and members of the team bring different skills. The Chinese team members contribute not only archaeological expertise but also help to guide the permitting process. The foreign team, which typically includes Flad and several Harvard graduate and undergraduate students, brings its own archaeological and technical strengths, as well as funding.

Following up on earlier discoveries of larger Baodun-era settlements, Flad and colleagues have been able to document a series of smaller settlements across the plain that paint a picture of a far more densely settled area than previously un

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