Ep. 276 | Sanxingdui and Ancient Shu
The China History Podcast
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The Golden Sunburn Disk and the Smiling Mask
The two most iconic objects from this jin sha siht is this round golden sunburn disk and the called smiling mask. The gold that was found was all foil that was used to gild these masks and statues of presumably gods or kings. It's been determined that whatever began at jin shah after san shingde was later during the warring states period of the eastern jo. Unlike san shing te and the neolithic baudun culture, the Jinshah site appears to lack city walls.
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