This book offers a comprehensive and meticulous collation of the early archaeological discoveries of Sanxingdui, archaeological diaries, documentary archives, and image materials collected by the Sichuan University Museum, and it restores the “origin” of Sanxingdui's scientific archaeological discoveries by “cultural relics and documentary emersion” dual evidence. Through the “cultural relics and documentary emersion” dual evidence to restore the scientific archaeology of Sanxingdui's “origin,” the “full-color archaeological drawings and test analysis description” of the Sanxingdui early archaeological discoveries that carries out a complete presentation for today's research on Sanxingdui and ancient Shu civilization to explore the source to provide valuable first-hand information. This book could also serve as a useful reference to archaeologists and cultural relics researchers, historians and researchers of ancient Shu civilization, as well as postgraduate students and professional readers who are interested in Sanxingdui culture.

Huo Wei is a distinguished professor of Sichuan University, a Changjiang scholar distinguished professor of the Ministry of Education, and a national teaching master of the Ten Thousand People Programme. He is currently a professor of archaeology, doctoral supervisor, academic dean of the School of History and Culture (School of Tourism, School of Archaeology and Literature and Museums) of Sichuan University, director of the Institute of Chinese Tibetan Studies of Sichuan University, a key research base of the Ministry of Education for humanities and social sciences, and one of the conveners of the seventh and eighth session of the State Council's Discipline Evaluation Group for the discipline of archaeology. He is also a member of the Steering Committee for Undergraduate Teaching of the Ministry of Education and a member of the Chinese Archaeological Society, a member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Archaeological Society.