The over 40 pieces of ivory ware are all pillar-shaped articles with one dot in the middle, surrounded by six dots on one end of each piece. Numerous elephant tusks were excavated from Jinsha Ruins with the total weight of about one ton. Some of them were from the southern part of the ancient Shu State, but most were from the neighboring provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and so on. They are said to have been tributes paid to the rulers of the ancient Shu State by ethnic groups in southwest China. All these discoveries indicate that Jinsha by that time had already become the most important political, economic and cultural center in southwest China.

 

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