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Differentiation of Ritual Practices through Bronze Artifact Analysis at Sanxingdui Site, Southwest China
Xiaoge He, 2025. Asian Perspectives.
Proposes a five-part framework of ritual components (recipients, performers, assistants, offerings, furnishings) and divides the bronzes from the published pits into two assemblages, one for rites communicating with another world and one not.
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The most explicit recent model of the rites behind the pits.
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He, X. (2025). Differentiation of Ritual Practices through Bronze Artifact Analysis at Sanxingdui Site, Southwest China. Asian Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2025.a971261
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