Page 34 - The Arts of China, By Michael Sullivan Good Book

0 wo zoo JOO — 400 Ul
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no ZOO XO 100 KM
MAP) Ancient China with major
shmg and chou Dynasty sues.
armies of the Chou very probably in 1045 B.C. At Anyang the
bronze culture was at its height; the metalworkers were produc-
ing sacrificial vessels of a quality that has been equalled nowhere in
the world—the culmination, clearly, of centuries of develop-
ment. The oracle bones gave the names of eighteen kings before
P'an-keng and, according to tradition, the Shang had moved their
capital five times before finally settling at Anyang. If traces of
these earlier capitals could be found, the gap between the late Neo-
lithic and the mature bronze culture of Anyang might be closed.
This is in fact just what is happening. Artefacts of pure copper
have been found in sites of the Kansu painted pottery culture of
about 3000 B.C. and in the Lung-shan Black Pottery site of San-li-
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