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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 ...
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 ...
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 .
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.
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.
Map of China showing sites of Paleolithic China ... Late Shang (c. 1250 – c. 1046 BCE) ... Modern-day location
The great bronze age of China: an exhibition from the People's Republic of China. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-87099-226-1. Thorp, Robert L. (2005). China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3910-2