The restoration of the chariots of the Warring-States Period in Majiayuan, Gansu (continued) – the designing and making skills of chariots and modifying and designing ideas of oxcarts
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Wucheng Zhao
Abstract
Based on previous studies and detailed excavations, this paper makes restorations for some parts of horse chariots unearthed at Majiayuan Cemetery of the Warring-States Period in Zhangjiachuan County, Gansu Province, and explores the manufacturing skills and assembling methods of these chariots and their parts and fittings. Moreover, this paper also analyzes oxcarts unearthed at the same cemetery and discusses their adaptation and modification to the horse chariots and their influences on the development of ox-drawn vehicles in later periods.
Postscript
The original paper published in Wenwu 文物 (Cultural relics) 2018.6:44–57 with 33 illustrations is written and revised by Wucheng Zhao 赵吴成 and was translated into English by Xiaolei Ding 丁晓雷.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- New archaeological discoveries
- The Nanshan Site in Mingxi County, Fujian
- The Jiaojia Site of the Neolithic Age in Zhangqiu District, Jinan
- The Gujun Site of the Eastern Zhou Period in Xingtang County, Hebei
- The Changbai Mountain god temple site of the Jin Dynasty in Antu County, Jilin
- Reports
- Excavation of the Jiahu Site in Wuyang County, Henan in 2013
- The excavation of the tomb M1017 at Dahekou Cemetery of the Western Zhou Dynasty in Yicheng, Shanxi
- The excavation of water well J3 at the Ancient City Site of the Zhu State in Zoucheng City, Shandong Province in 2017
- Two Han tombs at Tushantun Cemetery in Qingdao, Shandong
- The excavation of Yelü Hongli’s tomb in Beizhen City, Liaoning
- The excavation of Tongmuling zinc-smelting site in Guiyang County, Hunan Province
- Archaeological survey and excavation of the Mingtepa Site in Andijan Region, Uzbekistan
- Research
- A study on the cinnabar-bottomed burials of the early Bronze Age
- The restoration of the chariots of the Warring-States Period in Majiayuan, Gansu (continued) – the designing and making skills of chariots and modifying and designing ideas of oxcarts
- On white marble half-lotus meditation statues carved in Wuding Era of the Eastern Wei Dynasty
- Rethinking the origins of animal domestication in China
