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Mineralogical make-up of casting moulds and its archaeological implications for bronze making techniques in ancient China (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wen Yin Cheng. Chen Shen.

In order to understand how bronze vessels were produced and the knowledge involved we cannot limit our study to simply the bronze vessels themselves. Thus, the analysis on bronze mold production plays a key role to our understanding of bronze vessel production. The focus in this study will be on the 155 mold fragments currently housed at the Royal Ontario Museum, originally from Anyang dated to the Shang dynasty. Petrographic analysis was utilized for this research on raw materials and how the...