An Insight into a Shang Dynasty Bronze Vessel by Nuclear Techniques by Filomena Salvemini, Zeljko Pastuovic, Attila Stopic, Min-Jung Kim, Sue Gatenby

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The sacrificial record in burial pits of the late Shang Dynasty: evidences from the chroma and magnetic properties of the Sanxingdui site, Sichuan, China by Yuming Guo, Fang Xiang, Honglin Ran, Zhenbin Xie, Qi Yang, Hengxu Huang, Li Ding

“…So, we believe that although influenced by the Central Plain culture, the ancient Shu people in the late Shang Dynasty have unique characteristics of culture and religion.…”
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Human sacrifice in the Shang Dynasty—overcoming presentism to identify the socio-cultural milieu which contributed to the Shang conception of human sacrifice by Chua, Japhne Jia Ying

“…This essay sets out to overcome the Socio-cultural Milieu of the Shang Dynasty, to challenge the widely held belief that human sacrifice was a widespread practice in the Shang Dynasty, arguing instead that it was reserved only for the kings of the state. …”
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Revisiting the addition of tin and lead in Chinese bronzes: A statistical perspective by Zhang Zhiyan, Cui Jianfeng

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Isotopic Results Reveal Possible Links between Diet and Social Status in Late Shang Dynasty (ca. 1250–1046 BC) Tombs at Xiaohucun, China by Ning Wang, Lianmin Jia, Yi Si, Xin Jia

“…This pilot study from a rescue excavation yielded humans (n = 12) identified to the late Shang Dynasty (ca. 1250–1046 BC), which was a warm climatic period. …”
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A Settlement Landscape Reconstruction Approach Using GIS Analysis with Integrated Terrain Data of Land and Water: A Case Study of the Panlongcheng Site in the Shang Dynasty (Wuhan, China) by Jianfeng Liu, Qiushi Zou, Qingwu Hu, Changping Zhang

“…After removing modern artificial features and topsoil, the landscapes of the sites before the Shang Dynasty, in the Shang Dynasty and modern time were reconstructed. …”
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The celestial empire. [videorecording]

“…Some of the most riveting and important are Bronze Age drawings of the Shang Dynasty, stone writing tablets of the Han Dynasty, the matriarchal agrarian village of Bampo, and, the burial complex at Xi'an--home to more than seven thousand terra cotta warriors, horses and chariots still being excavated three decades after its discovery."…”

Identification of a source of nephrite from late Shang Yinxu by multispectral imaging by Dian Chen, Jigen Tang, Ming Yu, Yimin Yang, Changsui Wang

“…Abstract The provenance of nephrite excavated from the capital of the late Shang dynasty is an important concern. Some nephrites with yellow-green color might have the same provenance. …”
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Reconstructing and tracing the evolution of the road networks in the Haidai region of China during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages by Heng Yong, Xin Jia, Sijin Li, Lin Yang, Harry F. Lee, Guoan Tang

“…The Z score and one-sample t-test (p < 0.01) confirmed the reliability of the reconstructed road networks. The Shang Dynasty saw the sporadic appearance of simple road routes. …”
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Water Conservancy System and Urban Layout of Yinxu, the Capital City of Shang: A GIS Approach by Yin Wang, Zhen Qin, Weidong Hou, Michael Storozum

“…Archaeological work began in 1928 at Yinxu (also known as Yin Ruins), the site of the capital of the late Shang Dynasty, and the continuous excavations have yielded the discovery of numerous remains and relics. …”
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Gca-pvt-net: group convolutional attention and PVT dual-branch network for oracle bone drill chisel segmentation by Guoqi Liu, Yiping Yang, Xueshan Li, Dong Liu, Linyuan Ru, Yanbiao Han

“…Abstract Oracle bones (Obs) are a significant carrier of the shang dynasty civilization, primarily consisting of tortoise shells and animal bones, through the study of which we can gain a deeper understanding of the political, economic, religious, and cultural aspects of the shang dynasty. …”
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Chinese Calligraphy: An Ancient Art in the Modern Era by Chen Ziyuan

“…It germinated in the Shang Dynasty, reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty, and did not form a new calligraphy style for more than one thousand years. …”
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Evolution of Influence Ranges of Neolithic-Bronze Age Cities in the Songshan Mountain Region of Central China Based on GIS Spatial Analysis by Yan Tian, Panpan Chen, Peng Lu, He Yang, Shugang Yang, Li Zhang, Qingli Wei, Xiangli Zhao, Lanbo Guo, Zhen Wang, Rongji Luo

“…During the Erlitou culture (3800–3500 BP) and Shang Dynasty (3600–3046 BP), the spatial distributions changed into dispersed models. …”
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Social hierarchy and the choice of metal recycling at Anyang, the last capital of Bronze Age Shang China by Liu, R, Pollard, AM, Cao, Q, Liu, C, Sainsbury, V, Howarth, P, Bray, P, Huan, L, Yao, B, Fu, Y, Tang, J

“…Anyang, the last capital of the Chinese Shang dynasty, became one of the largest metal consumers in Eurasia during the second millennium BCE. …”

Study on the evolution of Chinese characters based on few-shot learning: From oracle bone inscriptions to regular script. by Mengru Wang, Yu Cai, Li Gao, Ruichen Feng, Qingju Jiao, Xiaolin Ma, Yu Jia

“…Oracle bone inscriptions (OBIs) are ancient Chinese scripts originated in the Shang Dynasty of China, and now less than half of the existing OBIs are well deciphered. …”
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Co-evolution of fish and rice farming by Austroasiatic communities in the Neolithic Era and early documentation of aquaculture in China by Peter Edwards

“…Oracle bone scripts of the Shang Dynasty (1,046 BC – 1,600 BC) are the earliest written record of fish farming in ponds. …”
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Religious and Ethical Conception of <i>Xiao</i>-Filiality in Pre-Imperial China by Jinhua Jia

“…The conception of <i>xiao</i>, which originally denoted the meanings of presenting offerings to deceased ancestors and inheriting their legacy in the Shang dynasty, went through two stages of evolution from the early Zhou dynasty to the Warring States period. …”
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An open dataset for oracle bone character recognition and decipherment by Pengjie Wang, Kaile Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Shengwei Han, Yongge Liu, Jinpeng Wan, Haisu Guan, Zhebin Kuang, Lianwen Jin, Xiang Bai, Yuliang Liu

“…Abstract Oracle bone script, one of the earliest known forms of ancient Chinese writing, presents invaluable research materials for scholars studying the humanities and geography of the Shang Dynasty, dating back 3,000 years. The immense historical and cultural significance of these writings cannot be overstated. …”
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Gu Jiegang’s “Discussion of Ancient History” Movement and Its Relationship with Developments in Western Sinology by Li Changyin, Ge Hongquan

“…The scholarship in modern China is closely related to Western sinology in terms of school ties.Gu Jiegang’s launching of the"Discussion of Ancient History"movement centered on the"theory of the accumulated creation of Chinese ancient history"was a representative example.At the beginning of the movement Hu Shi and Gu Jiegang proposed the notion that,"there was no history before the Eastern Zhou Dynasty"which was indebted to the historical skepticism by Philip Van Ness Myers(American scholar)and Friedrich Hirth(German sinologist)of the same period.The idea that"the Shang Dynasty is still in the late Stone Age"advocated by Hu and Gu was also directly influenced by J.G.Andersson’s An Early Chinese Culture.Conversely,American sinologist Arthur W.Hummel Sr played a key role in introducing and evaluating the first volume of Discussion of Ancient History to Western academia.Paradoxically,while Swedish sinologis Bernhard Karlgren wrote On the Authenticity and Nature of the Tso Chuan to refute Kang Youwei’s reinterpretation of Confucian Classics(The Forged Classics of the Wang Mang Period),his work however became of value for Chinese historic doubt scholars to reaffirm the value of New Text Confucianism and advance the"Discussion of Ancient History"movement.If we would like to choose a saying to describe the relationship between the"Discussion of Ancien History"movement and Western Sinology,the Chinese proverb,"Stones from other hills may serve to polish jade of this one,"may be an appropriate choice. …”
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Preliminary Discussion on the Highly Radiogenic Lead in Unalloyed Copper Artifacts of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: Starting from the Huili Copper Spearheads by Xiaoting Wang, Wugan Luo, Yingdong Yang, Dian Chen, Jing Du, Xiang Tang

“…Combined with other relevant highly radiogenic lead isotope data of unalloyed copper artifacts, the results indicate that there were multiple sources of copper ores used in the Shang Dynasty, and copper mines were continuously used in Southwest China until the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.…”
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