14C DATING OF THE ERLITOU SITE

Radiocarbon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Xuelian Zhang ◽  
Shihua Qiu ◽  
Lianzhen Cai ◽  
Hong Xu ◽  
Haitao Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Henan Province ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Shang Dynasty ◽  
14C Dating ◽  
Ancient Documents ◽  
The Bronze Age

ABSTRACT This article outlines the research progress on radiocarbon (14C) dating of the Erlitou site. The Erlitou site, belonging to the Bronze Age, located in Yanshi, Henan province, China, was discovered by archaeologists in 1959 when they investigated the Xia people’s remains in the area where the Xia people lived according to the records of ancient documents. Since then, there has been a standing debate about whether the site belongs to the Xia or Shang dynasty. By the mid-1990s, several hundred discussion articles on the issue had been published, but the question was still unresolved. Therefore, evidence from the chronology has attracted a great amount of attention. The dating of the Erlitou site began in the 1970s, and since the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project began in the mid-1990s, by application of wiggle-matching on the basis of improving the dating accuracy, the date of the Erlitou site has gradually become clear, which provides a basis for the archaeological research on the Xia and Shang dynasties.

A Neolithic Structure and Bronze Age Activity at West Flank Road, Drumchapel, Glasgow

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-128
Author(s):  
Gavin Macgregor ◽  
Irene Cullen ◽  
Diane Alldritt ◽  
Michael Donnelly ◽  
Jennifer Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Research Division ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
Age Features ◽  
The Bronze Age

Summary A programme of archaeological work was undertaken by Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD) at West Flank Road, Drumchapel, in close proximity to the site of the prehistoric cemetery of Knappers. This paper considers the results of excavation of a range of negative features, including earlier Neolithic and Bronze Age pits and postholes. The earlier Neolithic features date to c. 3500–3000 BC and are interpreted as the partial remains of a subrectangular structure. The Bronze Age features may relate to ceremonial activities in the wider area. The significance of these remains is considered in relation to the site of Knappers and wider traditions during the fourth to second millennia BC.

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Antiquity ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (311) ◽  
pp. 249-250
Author(s):  
Madeleine Hummler
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Hard Case ◽  
Detective Story ◽  
Monograph Series ◽  
Area Survey ◽  
The Bronze Age

scholarly journals Radiocarbon dating of the bronze age bone pins from Eurasian steppe

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Shishlina ◽  
Johan Plicht ◽  
Elya Zazovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
14C Dating ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
The North ◽  
Eurasian Steppe ◽  
Culture Formation ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Bronze Age

AbstractBone catapult and hammer-headed pins played one of very specific roles in funerary offerings in the Bronze Age graves uncovered in the Eurasian Steppes and the North Caucasus. Scholars used different types of pins as key grave offerings for numerous chronological models. For the first time eight pins have been radiocarbon dated. 14C dating of bone pins identified the catapult type pin as the earliest one. They marked the period of the Yamnaya culture formation. Then Yamnaya population produced hammer-headed pins which became very popular in other cultural environments and spread very quickly across the Steppe and the Caucasus during 2900–2650 cal BC. But according to radiocarbon dating bone pins almost disappeared after 2600 cal BC.

scholarly journals 14C Dating and Material Analysis of the Lime Burial of Cova de Na Dent (Mallorca, Spain)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy De Mulder ◽  
Roald Hayen ◽  
Mathieu Boudin ◽  
Tess Van den Brande ◽  
Louise Decq ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Simultaneous Thermal Analysis ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Crushed Rock ◽  
Petrographic Analysis ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
14C Dating ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Bone Fragments ◽  
The Bronze Age

Lime burials are a characteristic phenomenon of the protohistoric funerary tradition on the Balearic Islands. At Cova de Na Dent, a lime burial has been sampled for analysis. The lime burial was made up of lime and fragmented bones. Six layers were sampled and described in the laboratory according to their color, the consistency of the deposition, and the aspect and quantity of the bone fragments. Bone samples and lime were dated. The lime was analyzed by using petrographic analysis, X-ray diffraction, FTIR spectroscopy, and simultaneous thermal analysis. The results show that the bones were cremated in the presence of crushed rock carbonate. The14C dates on the lime suggest an earlier chronology for this ritual, starting in the Bronze Age, as generally is accepted.

Anthracological analysis from the Bronze Age site of Erlitou (Henan province, China)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuzhi Wang ◽  
Haitao Zhao ◽  
Guoliang Chen ◽  
Hong Xu ◽  
Marvin Demicoli
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Henan Province ◽  
The Bronze Age

HAIL TO THE KING: A REVIEW OF TWO BOOKS BY DAVID N. KEIGHTLEY

Early China ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 567-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Fiskesjö
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Shang Dynasty ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Public Work ◽  
Ancestral Landscape ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Looking Back

Twelve years after Professor Keightley published The Ancestral Landscape, which was a fascinating, elegant summary of decades of investigations of the Bronze-Age Late Shang dynasty, he has now published another wonderful book on the same era, under the title Working for His Majesty. As the title suggests, and as he recounts in a highly personal preface looking back at the origins of this work, he returns in this book to the topic of his doctoral dissertation on Shang labor (Public Work in Ancient China: A Study of Forced Labor in the Shang and Western Chou, Columbia University, 1969).

Some Problems Concerning China's Early Copper and Bronze Artifacts

Early China ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 53-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia K. Murray ◽  
An Zhimin
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Shang Dynasty ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Slave Society ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Bronze Age

(Translator's Note: This article originally appeared in Kaogu Xuebao 1981.3: 269-284, and is translated with the author's permission.)I. The appearance of metal is a very important event in human history, marking the start of an age. From the patriarchal clan communes of the late Neolithic period to the slave society of the Bronze Age, there was a great change in the relationship between social development and production. As a result, the origin and development of metal-working is one of the important issues in archaeological research (p. 269).Early in the Shang dynasty, China had already advanced into slave society, and its brilliant bronze culture is an outstanding phenomenon in the history of the ancient world. Shang civilization evolved from Longshan foundations, and there is ample archaeological proof of the close relationship between the two. But from what origins did Shang bronze arise? Before the Shang, was there an aeneolithic period in which copper was used? These questions have not yet been satisfactorily answered. Since 1949 the new discoveries of copper objects and of bronze objects belonging to an early period have contributed important clues to the solution of these problems.

Athens in the Late Bronze Age

Antiquity ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 30 (117) ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Broneer
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Of Greece

The Athenians of the classical era were deeply conscious of the fact that the history of their city was different from that of the rest of Greece. They were the autochthonous settlers of the land, and their orators and writers kept forever reminding them that Athens and Attica were not subdued when the Dorian invaders gained possession of most of the Peloponnesus at the end of the Bronze Age. Was this an empty boast, the kind of historical error that Thucydides (1, 20) attributes to a people's readiness to accept uncritically the old traditions about their own country or those of others? The historian (1, 2) makes it clear that he himself believed in the tradition that Attica was the original home of the Athenians of his day, and he found an explanation for this phenomenon in the poverty of the soil which made the conquerors pass by Attica for richer sections of the country. Archaeological research has confirmed Thucydides' conclusions.

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