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The sacrificial area at the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan
Honglin Ran, Yu Lei, Hao Zhao et al., 2023. Chinese Archaeology 23(1), 34–52.
The excavators' abbreviated English version, translated by Tao Li, of their Kaogu 2022(7) report on the six new pits: about 13,000 catalogued objects, over 3,000 intact, and the proposal that pits K5 and K6 were sacrificial pits while the others were burial pits for ritual objects.
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The excavators' own reading of what the pits were for.
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Ran, H., Lei, Y., Zhao, H., Xie, Z., Li, H., Wang, C., Xu, F., & Xu, D. (2023). The sacrificial area at the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan. Chinese Archaeology 23(1), 34–52. https://doi.org/10.1515/char-2023-0003
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Ran, Honglin et al.. “The sacrificial area at the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan.” Chinese Archaeology 23(1), 34–52 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1515/char-2023-0003.