Regional Circulation and Production of Bronze Mirrors in Han Dynasty: Focusing on Guanzhong and Jingzhou Area

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The previous study of Han bronze mirrors was mainly concerned with the diachronic change, such as the overall development in typology and the main component formula. Although there is only one Han bronze mirrors workshop found in North China at present, the regional diversity still deserves further investigation. This paper first presents a comprehensive typology. On this basis, this paper tries to make a large-scale statistics and component analyses of the Han bronze mirrors excavated in the North-South intersection of Guanzhong, Central Plain, and ancient Jingzhou area, in order to explore the differences of the distribution between the North and the South China. In the final part, the issues related to the production management and commodity circulation of the Han Dynasty would be preliminarily discussed.

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• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 33289