Rethinking Erlitou: Legend, history and Chinese archaeology

Antiquity

Volumn 81, Issue 314, 2007, Pages 886-901

  Liu, Li ^a   Xu, Hong ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; China; Erlitou; Neolithic; Shang; Xia

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; NEOLITHIC;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 37449033477     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00095983     Document Type: Article

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