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Local Communities in the Northeastern Frontier of the Central Plain during the late second and early first millennium BC (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yan Sun.

This paper will discuss how local communities in the northeastern frontier of China used metal artifacts and mortuary practice to articulate identity and delineate their cultural and political affiliations among themselves in the region and with polities in the Central Plain during the late second and early first millennium BC, which was a period that witnessed the rise and expansion of state powers in the Central Plain, namely, the Shang and Zhou. Previous studies examined material culture from...