# The objects were offerings, broken and burned in rites and buried in the sacrificial area.

> Most likely: The objects were offerings, broken and burned in rites and buried in the sacrificial area.

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Answer · Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits

# The objects were offerings, broken and burned in rites and buried in the sacrificial area.

The objects were offerings, broken and burned in rites and buried in the sacrificial area.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: three pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Burial in a dedicated ritual area; ritual assemblages repeated across pits; offerings of food and animals.
- Breakage and burning done in place or just before burial.

## What would rule it out

- Evidence that the objects were damaged in a violent destruction of buildings, with weapons and human remains of victims mixed in.

## Evidence 3 for · none against

[Pits lie together in an area the excavators call the sacrificial area.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/evidence/EVD0D739X5J0KZ5/pits-lie-together-in-an-area-the-excavators-call-the)

Supported

FOR

[The bronzes fall into two assemblages matching rites of communication with another world and other rites.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/evidence/EVD0D739XN65Z31/the-bronzes-fall-into-two-assemblages-matching-rites-of)

Suggestive

FOR

[Traces of bamboo, reeds, soybeans, cattle and boar accompany the objects, read as offerings.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/evidence/EVD0D739XDC52QS/traces-of-bamboo-reeds-soybeans-cattle-and-boar-accompany)

Suggestive

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Why were the Sanxingdui objects broken, burned and buried?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/questions/QST0D739VYG5PHX/why-were-the-sanxingdui-objects-broken-burned-and-buried)

Most likelyThe objects were offerings, broken and burned in rites and buried in the sacrificial area

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The objects were offerings, broken and burned in rites and buried in the sacrificial area. [Answer ANS0D739WXR5CJX]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D739WXR5CJX
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