Sanxingdui (‘Three Star Mound’)
  • April 20, 2023

Sanxingdui (Chinese: äž‰æ˜Ÿć †; pinyin: SānxÄ«ngduÄ«; lit. ‘Three Star Mound‘) is an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China. Largely discovered in 1986, following a preliminary finding in 1927, archaeologists excavated artifacts that radiocarbon dating placed in the twelfth–eleventh centuries BC. The archaeological site is the type…

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Long-nosed god maskettes are artifacts made from bone, copper and marine shells
  • April 12, 2023

Long-nosed god maskettes are artifacts made from bone, copper and marine shells (Lightning whelk) associated with the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE) and found in archaeological sites in the Midwestern United States and the Southeastern United States. They are small shield-shaped…

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