ʻO ka hōʻike mua loa o ka moʻomeheu Sanxingdui Kina mai ka makahiki 1927, i ka wā i ʻeli ai kahi kanaka mahiʻai i ka nui o nā relics jade i ka wā e huki ana i kahi auwai ma ka muliwai ʻo Yangtze ma waena o Kina. Ua manaʻo ʻia he ʻāpana ia o ke Aupuni pohihihi o Shu, ka mea i noho aliʻi ma ke komohana ʻo Sichuan Basin ma waena o 4.500 a me 3.000 mau makahiki i hala. Ua manaʻo ʻia ua ulu kūʻokoʻa kēia moʻomeheu Bronze Age i ka moʻomeheu Shang, ka mea nui ma Kina i kēia manawa, i nā kenekulia XNUMX a me XNUMX BC.
Ua ʻeli ʻia e kahi hui o nā kālaihonua mai ka Sichuan Provincial Archeology and Cultural Relics Research Institute, Peking University, Sichuan University a me nā ʻoihana ʻē aʻe i nā hale kupapaʻu ʻeono o ka pūnaewele mai ka makahiki 2020.
Wahi a ka moku'āina o Kina, Xinhua, aia nā mea i hana ʻia me nā metala makamae e like me ke gula a me ka jade, a me nā bele a me nā ʻāpana keleawe kūikawā me nā ʻano, e like me nā loea.
ʻO ka hapa nui o nā mea hou i loaʻa mai ka halekupapaʻu 7 a me 8, e lawe ana i ka huina o nā mea i ʻike ʻia i loko o kēia mau lua ma kahi o 13.000, e like me ka Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeological Research.
ʻO kahi pahu keleawe i kāhiko ʻia me kahi mea jade ʻōmaʻomaʻo i loko a ʻo kona mau lima i like ke ʻano o ke poʻo o ka deragona ka mea i huki nui ʻia i ka manaʻo o nā archaeologists. Ua hōʻike ʻia nā loiloi i hana ʻia ua wahī mua ʻia i ke kilika. "ʻAʻole ia he mea hoʻonui i ka ʻōlelo ʻana he ʻano ʻano like ka ipu, i ka noʻonoʻo ʻana i kona ʻano kikoʻī, ka maikaʻi o kāna hana hana a me kāna hoʻolālā akamai. ʻOiai ʻaʻole mākou i ʻike i ka mea i hoʻohana ʻia ai, hiki iā mākou ke manaʻo ua mahalo nui ka poʻe o ia manawa, "i wehewehe ʻo Li Haichao, he kumu ma ke Kulanui ʻo Sichuan, i ka ʻoihana i ʻōlelo ʻia.
Ma waho aʻe o nā lua kupapaʻu, ua ʻike nā archaeologists, i waena o nā ʻāpana ʻē aʻe, nā pale gula, kahi kiʻi kiʻi me ke poʻo kanaka a me ke kino o ka nahesa, kahi kuahu, kahi mea moʻokalaleo nui i hana ʻia i ke keleawe, a me nā mea hana lima i ke ʻano o ka deragona a he ihu puaa. "He paʻakikī a noʻonoʻo nā kiʻi kiʻi, e hōʻike ana i ka honua noʻonoʻo i hana ʻia e kēia moʻomeheu."
A puni nā lua kupapaʻu nui, loaʻa pū i nā kālaihonua nā koena o ka lehu, nā kumu o nā hale like ʻole, nā lua kupapaʻu, a me nā ʻōpala o ka ʻohe, ka ʻohe, a me ka soya. Pēlā nō, e loaʻa iā ʻoe ke koena o kekahi mau bipi a me nā puaʻa ahiu, i mōhai ʻia paha.
