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ANTIQUITY
Volume 81, Issue 314, Pages 886-901Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00095983
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China; Neolithic; Bronze age; Xia; Shang; Erlitou
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Erlitou is one of the most important settlements in early China, a prime site for the investigation of early cities and states. Traditionally, it has been described, dated and explained in terms of dynastic succession - the dynasties of the Xia and the Shang being the ethnically-distinct actors and prime movers that made history here. In a brilliant analysis, the authors decouple the semi-legendary textual histories from the up-to-date archaeological sequence at Erlitou itself. This article strikes a blow for archaeological reasoning that will be felt far beyond the Yellow River.
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