In fact, most archaeologists at that time believed that all human civilizations, including Chinese, originated in the broader Middle East and then spread to different regions of the world.
Excavations from 1928 at Anyang, also in northern Henan, by the newly formed Academia Sinica by anthropologist Li Ji uncovered a literate civilization identified with the late stages of the Shang dynasty of early Chinese records.
[4] Although romanticism abounded around these artifacts (including imaginative recreations by scholar-officials that were not based on proper evidence), the fanciful nature of the antiquarian pursuit was heavily criticized by Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays.
[5][6] One of the archaeological discoveries of China is a Guanyindong Palaeolithic cave site, discovered in 1964 by archaeologist Pei Wenzhong in Qianxi County, Guizhou.
It was not until after Ma died, that his wife went to Taiwan in 1971 from America to bring the artifacts to Chiang Kai-shek, who turned them over to the Taipei National Palace Museum.
Using the methods and techniques of natural science, the research scope of archaeology has been continuously expanded, and the information obtained has become increasingly diversified.