ANTHRO 2AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sichuan, Southwest China, The Tombs
12 Feb 2018
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*archaeology in the news ancient cliff tombs discovered in southwest china. Chengdu, china xinhua reports that more than 200 burial sites have been found in southwest china"s sichuan province, on cliffs overlooking the jinjiang river. The tombs date from 206 b. c. to a. d. 420. Pan shaochi of the chengdu cultural relics and. Archaeology research institute said some of the tombs have as many as seven chambers, ambers, and tunnels measuring up to 65 gold silver and bronze items were also found. Time is another important component in archaeological inferences: Archaeologists have a long history of dividing up the human past into periods, areas and phases that each carry many inferences, but without material and events separates by time, everything would be in one location. Stone, bronze, iron (the three age system) Hidden in some labels of temporal sequences are the concepts of progress.
