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The bone workshop site of Yinxu Period at Tiesan Road in Anyang, Henan

Anyang Archaeological Team, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Published/Copyright: November 18, 2017
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From the journal Chinese Archaeology Volume 17 Issue 1

Abstract

From 2002 to 2008, three terms of excavation were conducted at the Yinxu Period bone workshop site at Tiesan Road, Anyang, revealing that the overall area of this site covered about 1.76ha. The structural remains uncovered at the site consisted mainly of roads, house foundations, ash pits, and burials. Artifacts unearthed included pottery wares, bronzes, jades and bone materials, the last comprising the bulk of items discovered. The bone workshop began operating in Phase II of the Yinxu Period at the latest and lasted until the late stage of Phase IV of the Yinxu Period. The large amount of bone materials unearthed from the excavation provided important data for research on handicraft production, the economics of animal husbandry, and the utilization and supply of animal resources during the late Shang Dynasty.

Keywords: Bone (material); Shang Dynasty; workshops (work spaces)--Yinxu Period (14th-11th centuries BCE); Yinxu Site (historic site)--excavations

Postscript

The original report published in Kaogu 考古 (Archaeology) 2015.8:37-62 with 59 illustrations was authored by Yuling He 何毓灵, Zhipeng Li 李志鹏, Roderick B. Campbell 江雨德, and Zhanwei Yue 岳占伟. This revised version is done by Yuling He and Zhipeng Li and translated into English by Nicholas Vogt 侯昱文.

Published Online: 2017-11-18
Published in Print: 2017-12-20

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https://doi.org/10.1515/char-2017-0010
Keywords for this article
Bone (material); Shang Dynasty; workshops (work spaces)--Yinxu Period (14th-11th centuries BCE); Yinxu Site (historic site)--excavations

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  5. The Remains of Liangzhu Culture at Jiangzhuang Site in Xinghua and Dongtai Cities, Jiangsu
  6. New archaeological discoveries
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  8. New archaeological discoveries
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