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Erligang culture

34°45′14″N 113°40′34″E / 34.754°N 113.676°E / 34.754; 113.676

Not to be confused with Erlitou culture.

Geographical range

North China Plain

Bronze Age China

c. 1600 – c. 1400 BC

Erligang

Zhengzhou, Yanshi, Panlongcheng

Erlitou culture

Xiaoshuangqiao–Huanbei

二里崗文化

二里岗文化

Èrlǐgǎng Wénhuà

Èrlǐgǎng Wénhuà

The Erligang culture ([âɚ.lì.kàŋ]) is a Bronze Age urban civilization and archaeological culture in China that existed from approximately 1600 to 1400 BC. The primary site, Zhengzhou Shang City, was discovered at Erligang, within the modern city of Zhengzhou, Henan, in 1951.

Relation to traditional accounts[edit]

Many Chinese archaeologists believe that the ancient cities of Yanshi and Zhengzhou were among the early capitals of the Shang dynasty mentioned in traditional histories, and refer to the Erligang culture as early Shang. However many scholars and Western archaeologists have pointed out that, unlike the later Anyang settlement, no written records have been found at Erligang sites to link the archaeological remains with traditional accounts written a millennium later.[2]

Shang archaeology

Periodization of the Shang dynasty

Bagley, Robert (1999), "Shang Archaeology", in Loewe, Michael; Shaughnessy, Edward L. (eds.), , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 124–231, ISBN 978-0-521-47030-8.

The Cambridge History of Ancient China

Liu, Li (2003), "The products of minds as well as of hands: production of prestige goods in the Neolithic and early state periods of China", Asian Perspectives, 42 (1): 1–40, :10.1353/asi.2003.0025, hdl:10125/17179, S2CID 162278654.

doi

Liu, Li; Chen, Xingcan (2012), The Archaeology of China: From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age, Cambridge University Press,  978-0-521-64310-8.

ISBN

Fong, Wen, ed. (1980). . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-87099-226-1.

The great bronze age of China: an exhibition from the People's Republic of China

Li, Feng (2013). Early China: a social and cultural history. New York: Cambridge University Press.  978-0-521-71981-0.

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