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These objects, that are suggested to be part of the Riace Bronzes, have never been in the Getty Museum's collection. In China, the earliest bronze artefacts have been found in the Majiayao culture site between and BC. See also: Copper metallurgy in Africa. The influence of the Saima-Turbino metalworking tradition from the north is supported by a series of recent discoveries in China of many unique perforated spearheads with downward hooks and small loops on the same or opposite side of the socket, which could be associated with the Seima-Turbino visual vocabulary of southern Siberia. When they first went on display in , a million people came to see them and the pair were even featured on a commemorative postage stamp.

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