# He 2025: Differentiation of Ritual Practices through Bronze Artifact Analysis at Sanxingdui Site, Southwest China

> Xiaoge He, 2025. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The most explicit recent model of the rites behind the pits.

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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.

**Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits** Articledoi: **[10.1353/asi.2025.a971261](https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2025.a971261)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The most explicit recent model of the rites behind the pits.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[The objects were offerings, broken and burned in rites and buried in the sacrificial area.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/answers/ANS0D739WXR5CJX/the-objects-were-offerings-broken-and-burned-in-rites-and)

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[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)

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

The mystery article

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[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)

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## Cite it

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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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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2025.a971261)

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27 Oct 2026, for editors

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