Production of Stone Spades and Emergence of the First State in the Yiluo region, China

social changes during the Bronze Age (c. 2000-200 BC). This is a heartland of Chinese civilisation, as the earliest state emerged at the Erlitou site (c. 1900-1500 BC) in the centre of the Yiluo basin. Our Yiluo archaeology project, initiated in 1997, is a long-term internationally collaborative and...

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Main Authors: Li Liu, Xingcan Chen, John Webb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2009-09-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
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Online Access:http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue26/li_index.html