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North China Plain during the Late Shang period, showing sites with pottery styles similar to Anyang (black) and sites with other styles (red) [131] [132] [133] The oracle bones describe the Shang world in terms of three concentric regions. [134] [135] At the centre was the capital and ritual centre Dàyì Shāng (大邑商 'Great Settlement ...
Map of China showing sites of Paleolithic China (clickable map) The Stone Age; ... Late Shang (c. 1250 – c. 1046 BCE) Zhou (c. 1046 – c. 256 BCE)
Late Shang (c. 1250 – c ... Map showing states at the beginning of the Warring ... The Warring States period was an era of warfare in ancient China, as well as ...
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.
Fang States (Chinese:⽅) refer to the various tribes and states during the Shang dynasty in ancient China. Today, scholars' understanding of these states primarily comes from oracle bone inscriptions unearthed from the late Shang dynasty Yinxu. In these inscriptions, these tribal states are often referred to as name + "方".
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 .
North-central China (Middle Yellow River): Shanxi, Hebei, western part of Henan and eastern part of Shaanxi. Eastern China (lower Yellow River): Shandong, Anhui, northern part of Jiangsu and eastern part Henan. East-south-eastern China (lower Yangtze): Zhejiang and biggest part of Jiangsu.
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 ...