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Rib of a rhinoceros killed in a royal hunt, bearing an inscription including the character 商 (Shāng, fifth character from the bottom on the right) [2]. The Late Shang, also known as the Anyang period, is the earliest known literate civilization in China, spanning the reigns of the last nine kings of the Shang dynasty, beginning with Wu Ding in the second half of the 13th century BC and ...
Shang-era face masks made of bronze, c. 16th–14th centuries BC. Shang religious rituals featured divination and sacrifice. The degree to which shamanism was a central aspect of Shang religion is a subject of debate. [71] [72] There were six main recipients of sacrifice: [73] Di, the "High God", Natural forces, such as that of the sun and ...
This list of Bronze Age sites in China includes sites dated to either the Chinese Bronze Age, or Shang and Western Zhou according to the dynastic system. It is currently based on China's Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level record.
Tan, Qixiang , ed. (1982) The Historical Atlas of China, 1, China Cartographic Publishing House Maps 15–16, 17–18. Liu, Li; Chen, Xingcan (2012) The Archaeology of China: From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age , Cambridge University Press ISBN : 978-0-521-64310-8 .
Archaeological interest in the Shang was spurred on by the discovery of the dynasty's oracle-bone inscriptions, which bore the names of kings largely matching family trees in the Shiji. During the 1920s and 1930s, excavations in Anyang, Henan, revealed Yinxu, [a] the site of the Shang capital under the Late Shang culture. This period is also ...
Map of China showing sites of Paleolithic China ... Late Shang (c. 1250 – c. 1046 BCE) ... Modern-day location
The periodization of the Shang dynasty is the use of periodization to organize the history of the Shang dynasty (ca. 1600-1046 BC) in ancient China. The Shang dynasty was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley for over 500 years, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty.
Her tomb, one of the smaller tombs, is one of the best-preserved Shang dynasty royal tombs and the only one not to have been looted before excavation. [2] Inside the pit was evidence of a wooden chamber of dimensions 5 m × 3.5 m × 1.3 m (16.4 ft × 11.5 ft × 4.3 ft) that contained a lacquered wooden coffin that had since completely rotted away.