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Sanxingdui: a new Bronze Age site in southwest China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Yan Ge
Affiliation:
Department of Fine Arts, University of Pittsburgh, 104 Frick Fine Arts Building, Pittsburgh PA15260, USA
Katheryn M. Linduff
Affiliation:
Department of Fine Arts, University of Pittsburgh, 104 Frick Fine Arts Building, Pittsburgh PA15260, USA

Abstract

One of the splendours of early Chinese history is the sudden apparent rise of a skilled bronze metallurgy in the Shang period, and a correspondingly vital research question is to locate the centre of that technology. New discoveries from Sanxingdui, within China, reported here, question the primacy of north China in the late 2nd millennium BC

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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