2,000-Year-old Wig Unearthed in Sichuan
Xinhua
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Chengdu (China):
The Chinese might have learned to adorn themselves with periwigs more than 2,000 years ago, said archeologists who unearthed a skeleton wearing a hairpiece from an ancient tombs in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The wig, found on the lower part of the skull, was made of hemprope, says Zhang Rong, a heritage repairs technician with a local museum in Liangshan prefecture, where the finding was reported. Zhang said she had consulted several seasoned hemp knitters in the prefecture before she came to the conclusion.
The wig dates back to years between the Warring States Period (475 - 221 BC) and the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - 24 AD), said Liu Hong, curator of the museum in Liangshan, a community of the Yi ethnic group.
He said a joint archeological team sent by the museum and Sichuan University excavated 11 tombs in Sikai district, Zhaojue county in the Daliangshan Mountain in the past two weeks.
Nov 09, 2005
Xinhua
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Chengdu (China):
The Chinese might have learned to adorn themselves with periwigs more than 2,000 years ago, said archeologists who unearthed a skeleton wearing a hairpiece from an ancient tombs in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The wig, found on the lower part of the skull, was made of hemprope, says Zhang Rong, a heritage repairs technician with a local museum in Liangshan prefecture, where the finding was reported. Zhang said she had consulted several seasoned hemp knitters in the prefecture before she came to the conclusion.
The wig dates back to years between the Warring States Period (475 - 221 BC) and the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - 24 AD), said Liu Hong, curator of the museum in Liangshan, a community of the Yi ethnic group.
He said a joint archeological team sent by the museum and Sichuan University excavated 11 tombs in Sikai district, Zhaojue county in the Daliangshan Mountain in the past two weeks.
Nov 09, 2005
