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2023届新高考语法系统备考-Heritage文化遗产类
Sanxingdui relics offer glimpse of early Chinese civilization
三星堆遗址提供中国早期文明的一瞥
Cultural relics that are more than 3 millennia old and feature1(previous)
unknown shapes 2(be)recently found during an archaeological excavation in the
Sanxingdui site in Sichuan province.3 they appear to be a mysterious yet key part
of ancient Chinese civilization.
Ran Honglin,a leading archaeologist on the project.4 (say)in a news conference on Monday in the
Sanxingdui Museum in the city of Guanghan that 3,155 cultural relics in complete structure-including 1,23sbronze
wares and 543 gold and 565 jade artifacts-5(recover)from six pits on the site.
Including broken parts and fragments a total of 13,000 relics offered new clues to the ancient civilization of Shu.The
ancient state of Shu dominated what is today's Sichuan province,6 documentation on the state is insufficient
The Sanxingdui site.7
(discover)in 1929.has been key to unveiling the
(brilliant)of the
state lost in history
In 1986,two pits full of bronze artifacts,notably bizarre-looking masks and human figurines,were
9(accidental)found in Sanxingdui,10(draw)worldwide attention to the site.They are now
11
(general)thought by archaeologists to have been used for sacrificial ceremonies
In the latest round of excavations.13 began in 2020.another six "sacrificial"pits
were found next to the14 (origin)pair.Ran.15 is from the Sichuan
Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute,16(saynew
carbon-dating results on about 200 relics in the pits showed they dated from 1131 to 1012
BC,about 3,200 to 3,000 years ago,during the late period of the Shang Dynasty.
"The question of 17 (it)age,which had been bothering us the past 30-some years has been solved."Ran said
More bronze masks,1s (cover)with gold,and figurines in19(vary)shapes continued to be
unearthed this year.An exquisite bronze altar and other ceremonial artifacts made of bronze and jade may further
highlight the Shu people'sreligious rites