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\n\tNew research suggests that a treasured bronze artifact excavated from the Sanxingdui archaeological site in China is an assemblage of different parts made in different areas at different points in time\u2014\u201coffering fresh evidence of ancient trade networks and advanced metalworking techniques,\u201d according to a report in Heritage Daily<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe research released by the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology pertains to a well-known bronze figure\u2014wearing an elaborate head piece and kneeling with its hands extended\u2014that was discovered in the Sichuan Province.<\/p>\n \n\tThe researchers claim that the headpiece, known as a zong, and the kneeling figure exhibit differences regarding their makeup in terms of geography and time, despite the two parts being buried together.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe human figure exhibited significantly greater corrosion than the zong, while laboratory testing identified substantial differences in their metal composition and the geological origin of the ores used to produce them,\u201d according to Heritage Daily<\/em>. The figure itself seems to comprise separate sections, with a copper base differing from the rest of the piece.<\/p>\n \n\tAltogether, Heritage Daily<\/em> reports, \u201cthe findings provide further evidence that Sanxingdui had cultural and commercial connections to other parts of ancient China, including the Central Plains, and that finished bronze objects and materials were probably moving from one place to another.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/chinese-bronze-assembled-from-pieces-1234792249\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/vt2.webp?w=1024″] New research suggests that a treasured bronze artifact excavated from the Sanxingdui archaeological site in China is an assemblage of different parts made in different areas at different points in time\u2014\u201coffering fresh evidence of ancient trade networks and advanced metalworking techniques,\u201d according to a report in Heritage Daily. The research released by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2046162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2046162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}