Posted on 07/19/2023 6:44:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The mysterious origins of ancient bronzeware found in a part of northern China may have been uncovered, with the discovery of the ruins of a complete Bronze Age town in the area.
Archaeologists have now recovered hundreds of astonishing artifacts — including bronze drinking vessels, painted pottery, ornaments inlaid with turquoise and carved pieces of jade — at the vast Zhaigou archaeological site, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of the modern city of Yulin in Shaanxi province.
The relics, dating from more than 3,000 years ago, were made during the Shang Dynasty, which ruled northern China from about 1600 B.C. to 1046 B.C...
Experts said that local people had been unearthing ancient artifacts on their farmland since the 1940s, but their origins were unknown. Now, the discovery of the entire Bronze Age settlement at the Zhaigou site, spread over 11 hills and covering more than 1.2 square miles (3 square kilometers), explains their history, the archaeologists said...
Archaeologists have now unearthed more than 200 items from tombs there, such as lacquerware, that are similar to those found at other Shang dynasty sites.
Experts at the news conference said that the ruins at Zhaigou may have once been the capital of a separate state that had been conquered by the Shang, who were based in the city of Yinxu in Henan, and thereafter paid tribute to them.
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It is a good book. Though note that this was the bronze age collapse in the eastern Mediterranean. Chin and India didn’t experience it.
1177 BCE, the year a perfect storm destroyed civilization
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Some of the very many ancient Chinese Bronze shapes - the Ding, Dou, Dui, Gu, Guang, Hu, Jia, You and Zun. These are almost all from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties - 1600 to 256 BC.
Music is Feng Ru Song playing Wind Through the Pines from the Taoist Music Orchestra CD, available through Amazon.
https://youtu.be/C_DzPXDY8qU
Ancient Chinese Art - Taoist Music Orchestra - Incense Prayer
A survey of Chinese art from 2100 BC to 18th century AD - the Xia Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. The dynasty descriptions are on long enough to get the gist. To read them fully, you'll need to pause as you view.
Thanks, nice finds!
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Thanks mairdie!
Let me tell you about Snoopy and Prickly Pete.
Well, that sounds good, but I don’t feel like driving all the way out to the end of Long Island.
Researchers will look at all the social shenanigans, BLM, DEI, GiBLeTSQ, the plethora of meaningless “pronouns”, etc and call it the Lost Age. The age when societies the world over lost their minds and devolved into a mess that will take centuries to recover from.
Second edition in a couple of years highlighting the 2020s collapse.
Oh point well taken. I was referring to the era as opposed to the area.
“ Researchers will look at all the social shenanigans, BLM, DEI, GiBLeTSQ, the plethora of meaningless “pronouns”, etc and call it the Lost Age.”
I predict our time will be known as The Crazy Years. Assuming anyone around can still write, of course.
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“I predict our time will be known as The Crazy Years. Assuming anyone around can still write, of course.”
Sooner or later some sort of civilization will arise and they will eventually have researchers and those researchers will wonder at the planet spanning insanity that we created. We will become a cautionary tale that will be researched the way we have researched the Greek and Roman empires.
The Crazy Years sounds closer to the truth.
Much like the years of The Cultural Revolution in China.
Nailed it!
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