# Ran 2023: The sacrificial area at the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan

> Honglin Ran, Yu Lei, Hao Zhao et al., 2023. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The excavators' own reading of what the pits were for.

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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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