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status during the Western Zhou period (c. noo -
771 BCE) and, together with teams of horses, were
placed in the tombs of aristocrats; their use in com-
bat during that period was probably secondary
to their symbolic role. By the end of the Eastern
Zhou period (770-211 [256] BCE), however, their
function as a symbol of status had declined, and
they played an important role in the strategy of
the Qin army. LK
1 Excavated in 1976; unreported.
2 Shaanxi 1988!}; Yuan 1990; Wang 19943, 423-430; Led-
derose and Schlombs 1990, 277-78, and others.
3 Wang 19943,123 -130; a reconstruction of 3 chsriot ap-
pears in Ledderose and Schlombs 1990, 288-292.
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