The Mysterious Ancient Artifacts of Sanxingdui That Have Rewritten Chinese History

theepochtimes.com ^ | August 3, 2014 | April Holloway

[BenLurkin]

The objects found in the sacrificial pits included animal-faced sculptures and masks with dragon ears, open mouths and grinning teeth; human-like heads with gold foil masks; decorative animals including dragons, snakes, and birds; a giant wand, a sacrificial altar, a 4-meter-tall (13-foot-tall) bronze tree; axes, tablets, rings, knives, and hundreds of other unique items. Among the collection was also the world’s largest and best preserved bronze upright human figure, measuring 2.62 meters (8 feet).

However, by far the most striking findings were dozens of large bronze masks and heads represented with angular human features, exaggerated almond-shaped eyes, straight noses, square faces, and huge ears, features which don’t reflect those of Asian people.

The artifacts were radiocarbon dated to the 12th-11th centuries BC. They had been created using remarkably advanced bronze casting technology, which was acquired by adding lead to a combination of copper and tin, creating a stronger substance that could create substantially larger and heavier objects, such as the life-size human statue and the 4-meter-tall (13-foot-tall) tree.

[BenLurkin]

Hoax?

[Oberon]

[BenLurkin]

Si, por supeusto.

[null and void]

Beat me to it.

[ArtDodger]

Considering they found ‘thousands of artifacts’, many of them jade, they seem pretty niggardly, oops, I mean skimpy, with photos... 4 only?

[Boogieman]

Why would someone invent a casting technology that hadn’t been used elsewhere in the ancient world, for a hoax?

If I was creating a hoax, I would try to use the exact techniques already known to be used in the ancient world.

[knarf]

The article is a filler (imo) because I see nothing unusual about the exaggerated features almost all ancient Chinese sculptures seem to have.

I think I saw a replica of that dragon face in last year's Chinese New Years festival in Chinatown

(No .. I have no idea if there WAS a new year's festival in Chinatown last year ... it's rhetorical)

[Boogieman]

The faces of those statues have elements that seem more Polynesian/Native American than anything else.

Compare, for example, the Chinese find on the left, with a wood carving from Easter Island on the right:

Or another statue from the Chinese find, on the left, with and example from the Cook Islands on the right:

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Those are some fine Chinese fakes. Even better than Peking Man.

[BenLurkin]

Interesting.

[Boogieman]

I was reading a bit, and it seems that the standard theory is that the Polynesian migration began in Southern China, around the same time that these artifacts are dated to. So, we could very well be looking at the artwork of the people who would soon get pushed out of China by migrants from the north, and ended up colonizing all those pacific islands.

However, recent DNA analysis suggests the migrations may have started a couple millenia earlier, so who knows?

[SunkenCiv]

...by far the most striking findings were dozens of large bronze masks and heads represented with angular human features, exaggerated almond-shaped eyes, straight noses, square faces, and huge ears, features which don’t reflect those of Asian people. The artifacts were radiocarbon dated to the 12th-11th centuries BC.

Thanks BenLurkin.

[left that other site]

The huge ears... did they had a dynasty back in the day with Kenyan origins?

[1010RD]

You would make a good hoaxer.

[SunkenCiv]

I think you’re right, I believe I saw a documentary about those ties on the Disney channel...

[left that other site]

This we DO know:

That, much like Captain Kirk, Barak Sr. has spread his seed all over the known universe.

[MaxMax]

a giant wand

Lets call it what it is, Poo Stick. They didn't have toilet paper.

[MaxMax]

I can't imagine what they'll say 800 years from now when they unearth this:

[blam]

"So, we could very well be looking at the artwork of the people who would soon get pushed out of China by migrants from the north, and ended up colonizing all those pacific islands."

The Pacific Islanders are more closely related to the Denisovians than any other people on earth.

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