情4,220-year-old rock art in SW China’s Yunnan reveals early cultural links with Southeast Asia_我的网站
一 |  Chinese researchers have obtained the first absolute dates for rock paintings at the Mangguan rock art site in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, pushing the known history of rock art created by prehistoric settled communities in the region back to about 4,220 years ago. The paintings also suggest cultural interactions more than 4,000 years ago between Southwest China and civilizations along the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, as well as possible exchanges with neighboring parts of Southeast Asia, including present-day Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, a member of the research team told the Global Times. The Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, in collaboration with Nanjing Normal University and other institutions, have recently made a significant archaeological breakthrough. Through systematic surveys and uranium-thorium (U-Th) dating at the Mangguan site in Gengma county, the research team obtained the first absolute dates for the site's rock paintings, tracing rock art created by prehistoric settled communities back to around 4,220 years ago. The findings were recently published in the international journal Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. The Mangguan rock paintings represent one of the best-preserved prehistoric rock art sites in Yunnan. The research team presented high precision U Th dating of carbonate accretions that stratigraphically overlie the painted motifs at the Mangguan site, according to the paper published in the journal. The dating results show that carbonate deposits overlying a human figure yielded a corrected age of 4,240 ± 19 years before present, confirming that ancient people living in the region had already produced mature figurative art at least 4,220 years ago, Wu Yun, first author of the paper and an associate researcher at the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, was cited by the Xinhua News Agency report as saying. Dating results from 11 samples taken from different motifs clustered between about 3,907 and 3,056 years ago. By comparison, the Cangyuan cliff paintings had previously been dated to roughly 3,800 to 2,700 years ago. The Mangguan paintings are therefore significantly older, filling an important chronological gap in the region's artistic record before the Cangyuan phase. Shao Qingfeng, corresponding author of the paper and a professor at the School of Geography at Nanjing Normal University, told the Global Times that previous estimates dated the Mangguan rock paintings to a little over 3,000 years ago based mainly on imagery and comparisons with similar regional sites. Using microsamples of secondary carbonate deposits overlying the paintings, researchers have now obtained a precise minimum age of about 4,220 years before present without damaging the rock art. The findings and the establishment of this chronological framework not only strengthen the archaeological foundation for studying rock art in Southwest China, but also provide a direct reference for rock art sites across Southeast Asia that have yet to undergo systematic dating, Shao said. The findings may also challenge long-held perceptions of Southwest China around 4,200 years ago - roughly the era of the Xia Dynasty (c.2070 BC-C.1600 BC) - and help fill a key gap in understanding the pluralistic yet integrated development of Chinese civilization. Shao said that while academic research has traditionally focused on the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins as cradles of early Chinese civilization, sites such as Mangguan and Cangyuan show that stable and culturally active communities also thrived in mountainous Southwest China. The newly established rock-art chronology brings an artistic dimension to the broader narrative of China's enduring cultural development. Moreover, stylistic similarities suggest that Southwest China maintained exchanges with the Yellow River and Yangtze River regions and with early societies in Southeast Asia, providing material evidence of cross-regional interaction more than 4,000 years ago. 。 2月24日，工业和信息化部公示首批中国消费名品名单。经企业申报、省级工业和信息化主管部门初审推荐、专家评审，并征求生态环境部、商务部、应急管理部、市场监督管理总局、国家知识产权局、国家药监局、全国工商联、中国消费者协会等单位及有关行业协会意见，工信部公示了此名单。名单包括93个企业品牌和43个区域品牌。我市兴城泳装入选区域品牌。 工信部此前发出公告，建立消费品牌评价机制，组织有关单位从产品创新力、市场竞争力、品牌影响力、文化赋能力等方面开展价值评价，分级打造中国消费名品方阵，分批向社会各界、海内外市场推介名品优品。对中国消费名品强化政策支持。充分发挥各类政府引导基金和国家产融合作平台作用，引导金融资源精准对接名品企业融资需求，对中国消费名品方阵承载区域、重点企业提供支持。 目前，兴城市有泳装企业1300余户，年均产量约1.7亿件（套），年产值达150亿元，已成为中国的“泳装之都”。借助电子商务，产品销往俄罗斯、美国等140多个国家和地区。兴城泳装产品占国内市场份额40%以上；在国际市场上，兴城泳装产品占有率超25%。在2024年辽宁品牌价值榜中，“兴城泳装”区域品牌价值评价达到96.99亿元，比2023年提升10.42亿元。 Current article:http://l92lov.shuosongzoutunchutao.cfd/8yr/20260826/110182.html Published on:19:46:34 |
