In the Ganjiang River and Poyang Lake area of the Shang period, there were the Wucheng and Wannian cultures, which had certain relations with the Shang culture in the Central Plains and at the same time kept their str...
Two panels discussing the absolute dates of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou eras were held in the annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in Washington, D.C.in April, 2002. The panels focused on five major aspects...
The present report publishes the chronological data of specimens tested by the ^14C Laboratory of the Archaeological Science and Techniques Experiment and Research Center, IA, CASS, in cooperation with the Institute o...
Previously the terminal point of the Neolithic culture around the mouth of the Zhujiang River was usually dated to the turn between the Shang and the Zhou periods. This paper argues that the influence of the Shang bro...
The special qing chime stone was a percussion instrument characteristic of ancient China from the late Neolithic to the mid Shang period. Investigation and pitch-testing of the pre-Shang and Shang special qing unearth...