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Sanxingdui bronze heads with gold foil masks. 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.
23 lis 2023 · The bronze masks, heads, statues, and even trees discovered in the pits were unparalleled in China, and indeed anywhere else. It seemed that this sublime artistry was expressing a unique view of the world that developed in and around Sanxingdui, which lay in the Sichuan basin of the Yangtze River: a remote region ringed by high mountains.
The era of the Shang and the Zhou dynasties is generally known as the Bronze Age of China, because bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, used to fashion weapons, parts of chariots, and ritual vessels, played an important role in the material culture of the time.
27 sie 2024 · This study attempts to address the issue of bronze weapon production in the Chu state through systematic archaeometallurgical analyses. In 2016, 16 bronze arrowheads were unearthed at the Yuwan cemetery, and used for this study.
29 sie 2024 · A guide to collecting archaic Chinese bronze vessels, from inscriptions and origins to purpose and provenance, illustrated with examples offered at Christie's.
1 sty 2024 · In the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220), the bronzes were still in use and had some technological development. However, all implements were gradually replaced by lacquerwares and chinawares, except for bronze mirrors, bronze coins, and a few other implements.
16 wrz 2024 · The alloying techniques and metal resources of the Zhouyuan area both changed significantly from pre-Zhou to Western Zhou, which could be related to the great transformation of the bronze industry pattern after the Zhou people replaced the dominance of the Shang Dynasty.
