List of Bronze Age sites in China
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This is a list of Bronze Age
archaeological sites and cultures in China
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age...
archaeological sites and cultures in China
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- BaBa (state)Ba was an ancient state in eastern Sichuan, China. Its original capital was Yicheng , Hubei. Ba was conquered by Qin in 316 BC. The modern ethnic minority Tujia people trace some of their origins back to the Ba people....
-ShuShu (state)The State of Shu was an ancient state in what is now Sichuan, China. It was conquered by Qin in 316 BC. Shu was based on the Chengdu Plain, in the western Sichuan basin with some extension northeast to the upper Han River valley. To the east was the Ba tribal confederation. Further east down the...
(e.g. the bronzes of the village SanxingduiSanxingduiSanxingdui is the name of an archaeological site and its deduced culture in China, now believed to be the site of an ancient Chinese city. The previously unknown Bronze Age culture was re-discovered in 1987 when archaeologists excavated remarkable artifacts, that radiocarbon dating dated as being...
in Sichuan) - ChuxiongChuxiongChuxiong City is a county-level city and capital seat of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.-History:-Geography:...
county, Yunnan, -5th century) - Dongxiafeng (Shanxi)
- Erligang cultureErligang cultureThe Erligang culture is the term used by archaeologists to refer to a Bronze Age archaeological culture in China. The primary site was discovered at Erligang, just outside of the modern city of Zhengzhou, Henan, in 1951....
- Erlitou cultureErlitou cultureThe Erlitou culture is a name given by archaeologists to an Early Bronze Age urban society that existed in China from 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE. The culture was named after the site discovered at Erlitou in Yanshi, Henan Province...
二里頭, first and second period (Henan) - FenghaoFenghaoFenghao , is the name given to the twin Chinese Zhou Dynasty settlements of Hàojīng and Fēngjīng which together formed the capital of the Western Zhou. They were located in Xi'an in Shaanxi Province. When King Wen of Zhou Fenghao , is the name given to the twin Chinese Zhou Dynasty (1066-256 BCE)...
(Shaanxi) - JinshaJinshaJinsha is an archaeological site in Sichuan, China. Located in the Qingyang District of Chengdu Prefecture, Along the Modi River Jinsha is an archaeological site in Sichuan, China. Located in the Qingyang District of Chengdu Prefecture, Along the Modi River Jinsha is an archaeological site in...
- Liaoning bronze dagger cultureLiaoning bronze dagger cultureThe Liaoning bronze dagger culture is an archeological complex of the late Bronze Age in Korea and China. Artifacts from the culture are found primarily in the Liaoning area of Manchuria and in the Korean peninsula. Various other bronze artifacts, including ornaments and weapons, are associated...
- Lower Xiajiadian cultureLower Xiajiadian cultureThe Lower Xiajiadian culture is an archaeological culture in Northeast China, found mainly in southeastern Inner Mongolia, northern Hebei and western Liaoning, China. Subsistence was based on millet farming supplemented with animal husbandry and hunting. Archaeological sites have yielded the...
- Majiayao cultureMajiayao cultureThe Majiayao culture is a name given by archaeologists to a group of Neolithic communities who lived primarily in the upper Yellow River region in eastern Gansu, eastern Qinghai and northern Sichuan, China. The culture existed from 3100 BC to 2700 BC...
- PanlongchengPanlongchengPanlongcheng is an archaeological site associated with the Erligang culture. The site is located just north of the Yangtze river in Hubei, China...
- Qijia cultureQijia cultureThe Qijia culture was an early Bronze Age culture distributed around the upper Yellow River region of western Gansu and eastern Qinghai, China, it is regarded as one of the earliest bronze cultures. Johan Gunnar Andersson discovered the initial site at Qijiaping in 1923...
- SanxingduiSanxingduiSanxingdui is the name of an archaeological site and its deduced culture in China, now believed to be the site of an ancient Chinese city. The previously unknown Bronze Age culture was re-discovered in 1987 when archaeologists excavated remarkable artifacts, that radiocarbon dating dated as being...
- Shajing (Gansu)
- Shizhaishan (e.g. the bronzes from the burials in Shizhaishan, Jinning county, Yunnan, from the old state DianDianDian may refer to:* Dian Cecht, the God of healing in Irish mythology* Dian , one of the sons of Carman in Celtic or Irish mythology* Diān , an abbreviation for Yunnan, China* Dian Fossey, an American zoologist...
) - Siba culture (upper reaches of the Yellow River)
- Siwa cultureSiwa cultureSiwa culture was a Bronze Age nomadic culture in the Gansu Province area, China. It was first discovered in Siwashan , in the Lintao district , hence its name...
(Gansu) - TaosiTaosiTaosi is an archaeological site in Xiangfen County, Shanxi, China. Taosi is considered to be part of the late phase of the Longshan culture in southern Shanxi, also known as the Taosi phase . Taosi was surrounded by a rammed earth wall; the Huaxia settlement outgrew the perimeter of the wall. At...
(Shanxi) - Upper Xiajiadian cultureUpper Xiajiadian cultureThe Upper Xiajiadian culture was a Bronze Age archaeological culture in Northeast China derived from the Eurasian steppe bronze tradition, and roughly contemporaneous to the Western Zhou Dynasty....
- Wanjiaba (e.g. the bronzes form the burials in Wanjiaba,
- Wucheng cultureWucheng cultureThe Wucheng culture was a Bronze Age archaeological culture in Jiangxi, China. The initial site, spread out over , was discovered at Wucheng, Zhangshu. Located on the Gan River, the site was first excavated in 1973. The Wucheng culture probably developed in response to cultural contacts with the...
- Xiaohe Tomb complexXiaohe Tomb complexThe Xiaohe 'Little River' Tomb complex refers to a bronze-age burial site located in Lop Nur, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of western China. It is an oblong sand dune, from which more than 30 well-preserved mummies, buried in air-tight ox-hide bags, have been excavated...
- Xijiadian, lower stratum (Nord-Hebei) and upper stratum (Nord-Hebei and Liaoning)
- Xindian cultureXindian cultureXindian culture was a Bronze Age culture in the Gansu and Qinghai provinces of China. Xindian culture is dated ca. 1500–1000 BCE, a radiocarbon testing of an artefact produced a date around 1000 BCE, which roughly corresponds to the Zhou period of the Central Plain area...
(Gansu) - Xin'ganXin'ganXingan , sometimes Dayangzhou , is an archaeological site located on the Gan River in Dayangzhou, Xingan County, Jiangxi, China. The site was excavated in 1989. Xingan was home to a rectangular tomb covered by a tumulus...
- Xituanshan (Jilin)
- Yueshi (Shandong and Nord-Jiangsu)
- Zhukaigou cultureZhukaigou cultureThe Zhukaigou culture was a late Neolithic and early Bronze Age culture centered in the Ordos Plateau of Inner Mongolia, China. The type site at Zhukaigou was discovered in Ejin Banner, Inner Mongolia, and excavated from 1977 to 1984...
- Zhouyuan (Shaanxi)
See also
- List of Neolithic cultures of China
- List of Palaeolithic sites in China
- List of Chalcolithic Cultures in China
- History of ChinaHistory of ChinaChinese civilization originated in various regional centers along both the Yellow River and the Yangtze River valleys in the Neolithic era, but the Yellow River is said to be the Cradle of Chinese Civilization. With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world's oldest...