# Ran 2025: Newly discovered sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui site: Insights into Bronze Age ritual remains in Southwest China

> Honglin Ran, Shiyu Xu, Danyang Xu et al., 2025. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The primary English report on Pits 3–8.

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# Newly discovered sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui site: Insights into Bronze Age ritual remains in Southwest China

Honglin Ran, Shiyu Xu, Danyang Xu et al., 2025. _Archaeological Research in Asia 42, 100621_.

The excavators' English-language overview of the six pits found in 2019–2022.

**Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits** ArticleCopy of **[The eight pits of the sacrificial area](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/artifacts/ART0D73A5F61VEP/the-eight-pits-of-the-sacrificial-area)** doi: **[10.1016/j.ara.2025.100621](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2025.100621)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The primary English report on Pits 3–8.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[The eight pits of the sacrificial area: document](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/copies/CPY0D73A66M7510/the-eight-pits-of-the-sacrificial-area-document)

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[Ran Honglin](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/people/FIG0D739SGC4A1P/ran-honglin)

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[Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

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Ran, H., Xu, S., Xu, D., Wang, C., Xu, F., Li, H., Zhao, H., Xie, Z., & Lei, Y. (2025). Newly discovered sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui site: Insights into Bronze Age ritual remains in Southwest China. Archaeological Research in Asia 42, 100621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2025.100621
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