Xia dynasty 1700-1600 BCE
Shang dynasty - Early Bronze Age 1500-1027 BCE (historical record here)
- Erlitou sites, Henan - Shang dynasty, bronze ritual food vessles, multi-piece mould castings
- Mid 2nd millenium, Chinese culture emerges in this period w writing, cities, and use of metals, stratified polity ruled by powerful king
- social differentiation expressed in burials
- elite few buried w grave goods (<200 bronze objects could be interred in a single grave)
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