Samsungdui is found in Sichuan not in the ancient records of a civilization, is a representative of the ancient Shu civilization, in which there is a bronze sacred tree, the big standing man, bronze masks, and in the excavation of samsungdui, a large number of tusks have been found.
In present-day China, elephants are only distributed in the tropical rainforests around Xishuangbanna in Yunnan, and there is no distribution of elephants in Sichuan, so where did a large amount of ivory in Sanxingdui come from?
Through modern scientific and technological examination, it can be determined that the ivory found in Sanxingdui, belonging to the Asian elephant tusks, and can be determined that the tusks are produced from the local area, which in fact is the answer to this question, not long ago, that is, Sanxingdui is located in the thousands of years ago, in the area of Sichuan is the existence of elephants.
People now for China's geography and natural biology of the judgment, is based on the current situation to determine, but in fact this situation with thousands of years is very different, in thousands of years ago, whether the climate or biological and now there is a big difference. For example, the current perception of China is that there is no rhinoceros, but in fact the Chinese rhinoceros was finally extinct in the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.
And the same is actually true for elephants. Thousands of years ago, the Yellow River Basin was densely forested and had a warm and humid climate. Elephants were widely distributed in the Yellow River Basin, and we know that the treacherous minister of the present Henan is Yu, and this character from the shape of the character is a person holding an elephant, which is also recorded on the bronze inscriptions of the Zhou Dynasty, that is to say it was in the time of the Zhou Dynasty that elephants still existed in this region of Henan. And places like Chang'an, in the Tang Dynasty, there were still rhinoceroses like that.
And Samsungdui time is probably the Xia and Shang Dynasties, earlier than the Zhou Dynasty, and the geographic location of Sichuan, more south than the Yellow River Basin of Henan, in the climate at that time is also warmer and more humid, so there is the distribution of elephants is not surprising, in fact, this is from the discovery of many other monuments in the midst of the can be determined.
Samsungdui tusks are from around Sichuan, where elephants existed at the time. But nowadays, with the change of climate and environment, as well as the hunting and killing by human beings, many animals that existed in ancient times have disappeared from their original habitats.