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4,220-year-old rock art in SW China’s Yunnan reveals early cultural links with Southeast Asia_我的网站
一 | 印度女游客在吉隆坡街道坠入地洞事件，引起民众对当地基础设施安全的担忧。
Timeline of the major painted rock art groups in Southwest China: A-A′: Jinsha River rock art; B-B′: Mangguan-Cangyuan rock art; C-C′: Zuojiang rock art Photos: Xinhua
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.
。不过，有计划飞往吉隆坡的狮城旅客表示，不会因此取消原定行程。
二 | 从事传播媒体业的29岁扎希尔（Zahir）告诉新传媒英文新闻网CNA，他接下来将前往八打灵再也（Petaling Jaya）参加一场活动，原本也计划同未婚妻到吉隆坡游玩，包括走访近日发生地陷的印度回教堂路（Jalan Masjid India）。
本地旅客：或放弃走访事故区域
不过，由于当地接连发生地陷事故，他坦言会考虑打消走访印度回教堂路的念头。“如果只有出现一个地洞，我们可能不会当成一回事，但在如此短时间内出现了两次地陷事故，而且两个地洞距离如此相近，说明那里存在很大的潜在安全问题。
三 | ”扎希尔也指出，地陷与其他结构性问题不同。
四 | “如果你看到路面破损，你可以直接避开，但地陷不行，你不知道什么时候会发生，也无法做准备。”一名48岁印度女游客上周五（本月23日）在印度回教堂路人行道上行走时，因为路面突然塌陷而坠入八米深坑，至今下落不明。事故发生六天后，距离第一个地陷地点50米外，出现了第二个地洞。此外，吉隆坡市甘榜格灵芝（Kampung Kerinchi）班台柏迈路（Jalan Pantai Permai）一处的人行道，本月26日也发生地陷。对此，另一名已计划前往吉隆坡的旅客——68岁退休人士赛义德·纳西尔则表示，，由于会担心当地再发生地陷，因此会避免前往那些地点。不过，他也提到，当地政府采取了必要行动，并封锁了事发路段，有助缓解他的担忧。坐落在文礼购物中心内的两家巴士业者昨天（29日）受询时指出，公司并没有接获任何取消订票的通知。记者查看售票平台BusOnlineTicket和Easybook时也发现，今明两天前往吉隆坡的大部分巴士也已坐满。
吉隆坡旅游协会：事故未影响当地旅游业
吉隆坡旅游协会主席赛义德·阿扎尔·赛义德·纳齐尔（Syed Azhar Syed Nadzir）受访时认为，地陷事故并没有对该市旅游业带来任何影响，但预计前往印度回教堂地区的旅客将减少。
五 | “我们在预订平台上没有看到任何取消预订的情况。现在是暑假，被认为是旺季，我们相信所有预订都会保留。”他也指出，当地偶尔会发生山体滑坡等事件，但旅客向来都不会因此避免到当地游玩。马来西亚入境旅游协会主席乌达尼斯（Uzaidi Udanis）同样透露，地陷发生后，预订量并没有减少。
六 | “我每天都与外国同行接触，但关于这一事件的讨论并不多。
七 | ”
酒店业者：顾客纷纷取消订房
然而，事发地区的酒店业者纷纷表示，接获不少顾客取消订房。坐落在地洞附近的酒店宫殿酒店（Palace Hotel）职员指出，该酒店事后都接到了来自当地和外国顾客取消订房的通知，平日的入住率下跌了20%。“生意不太好，因为有很多订单被取消，尤其是上个周末，也就是公共假期的时候。我们也不知道这样的情况还会持续多久。”另一家廉价酒店MK Inn则表示，目前还无法确定此次事件的影响，但已经看到一些顾客开始取消订房的情况。工作人员透露，该酒店很大程度上依赖散客，但目前到该区走动的人并不多。
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