Original title: New discoveries have been made in the Sanxingdui jade "production workshop" and 19 raw materials have been identified

The reporter learned from an academic seminar hosted by the Chinese Archaeological Society yesterday that the Sanxingdui Site Workstation, The Sanxingdui Museum separately announced further research results of the Sanxingdui jade "production workshop". Among them, 19 types of jade materials have been identified, and the sources of stone are very wide.

Jade tools are rich in raw materials

19 species have been identified

The reporter learned at the meeting that not only was the Sanxingdui site discovered for the first time The handicraft workshop - the "production workshop" of jade wares, also found the raw material origin of these jade wares, which is most likely in the Longmen Mountain area in the northwest of the Chengdu Plain.

Xu Danyang, deputy director of the Sanxingdui Site Work Station: The main discoveries so far are from the production and processing of jade artifacts Various types of remains, such as stone tool raw materials, scraps, blanks, and finished products, are accumulated in a concentrated manner. Its jade artifacts are made of many materials, 19 of which have been identified so far. We initially propose that a considerable part of the raw materials may come from the Longmen Mountains in the northwest of Sanxingdui.

From October 2022 to May 2024, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology jointly worked with the Palace Museum , based on the excavation work in 1934, 1963, 1999 and 2000, archaeological excavation and exploration were conducted again at the Moon Bay location of the Sanxingdui site.

More than 400 high-level building foundations, ash pits, ash ditches, and stone tool production and processing relics were gradually found. It was initially confirmed to be the jade and stone tool production workshop in Sanxingdui, dating to the mid-Shang Dynasty, about 100 years ago. 3500 to 3400, earlier than the burial age of the sacrificial pit where tens of thousands of cultural relics were previously unearthed.