34.5 x 34.5 cm. (13.6 x 13.6 in.) ...

Bronze - Late Shang dynasty ... It was made during the Zhou dynasty, which followed the Shang. "These bronzes that we call ritual vessels were used for a long time - from around 1300 BC down ...

They found 39 tombs in a cemetery covering 800 square meters to the north of the walled city and excavated 33, which belonged ...

and this bronze, made about 1000 BC, is just such a document. It's part of the story about the end of one Chinese dynasty - the Shang - and the beginning of another one - the Zhou. The Shang ...

They also recovered precious bronze artifacts from tombs outside ... the earliest tomb was found to be from the early Western Zhou Dynasty. Others are mostly from the middle stage of the dynasty.

In this book, Paul Nicholas Vogt rediscovers their roots in the vagaries of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through an investigation of inscriptions on bronze vessels, the best contemporary source ...