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ANTIQUITY
Volume 92, Issue 366, Pages 1511-1529Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2018.176
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China; Anyang; Guandimiao; Bronze Age; political economy
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Extensively excavated village sites from the Chinese Bronze Age are rare. Information emerging from the analysis of the small Any-ang-period village site of Guandimiao, however, challenges widely held assumptions concerning the Shang polity at Anyang and its hierarchical lineages based on war and sacrifice. Evidence for specialised pottery production and the presence of artefacts imported from Anyang suggest an unexpected degree of regional economic integration. Guandimiao is emerging as a site of revolutionary importance for understanding Anyang-period Shang political and economic networks, and in its significance to both Chinese archaeology and the study of early complex societies more generally.
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