Bone Craft Product and Economies in the Late Shang Period at Anyang, China

Summary

This paper will discuss recent analysis of worked animal bone discovered at the late Shang Xinanzhuang site, and the manufacture strategies and raw materials manipulations within different locations in Anyang, Henan. Xinanzhuang is considered to be associated with the industrial-scale boneworkshop at Tiesanlu site because of the close proximity between the two sites. Previous studies on bone artifacts from Tiesanlu provide some understanding of craft production systems during the late Shang period. Applying micro-wear analysis and statistical methods to bone artifacts from Xinanzhuang can provide new data for studying bone cutting strategies among different areas of the workshop and help understand bone craft production and economies during the late Shang period.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• Guava Cat Archaeology: Papers in memory of Prof. Pochan Chen

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