Wreckage from a two-eared vessel excavated at the ruins of a settlement dating to the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) in Chengdu City, the capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province. The wreck has Chinese characters indicating countryside, making it the earliest such item in Sichuan Province to record a place name at the countryside administrative level. (Photo: China News Service/Zhong Xin)
