The Chinese were the aboriginal rednecks: "Well, Ping, get me some duct tape." "Duct tape hasn't be invented yet, Chang" "Shoot, okay then, start piling them rocks up there. I saw my grandpappy do something like this once. If you can't stop a leak, at least catch the water cause you never know when you might need it for something."
What I really want to comment on is the loss archeological interest. That is the price for trying to demonetize archeological finds. There was huge interest in that stuff, and people were making tons of money off it, and somebody decided that people being interested in it and it being profitable are bad because the the academics were losing artifacts to collectors.