shang dynasty part 2
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The beginnings of history in China; oracle bones; early bronze technologyTRANSCRIPT
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Shang Dynasty
ca. 1500-1100 BCE
Part of the Bronze Age
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• Bronze Ding, Shang, ca. 13th C
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• Shang bronze gui, ca. 1600-1100 BCE
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• Bronze Gu (wine goblet), Shang dynasty, 13th C BCE
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• Longshan Neolithic
• “Eggshell” pottery
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• Closeup of tao tie on early Shang bronze
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• Spouted ritual wine vessel (guang), Shang dynasty, early Anyang period (ca. 1300–1050 B.C.),
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• Jue, Ritual Wine Vessel, Late Shang (12th C BCE)
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• Fang I (Ritual Wine Vessel)Shang, :late 13th-12th century
• 11 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
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• Shih tripod bronze ting vesselLate Shang dynasty (1300-1046 B.C.)
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• Functional weapon set
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• Jade ceremonial weapons
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Shang Dynasty Review
• Bronze Age: weaponry, ritual vessels
• Highly stratified, wealthy and powerful society
• The basis for modern Chinese writing
• vocab: taotie, afterlife, grave goods, ritual, divination, oracle, ancestor worship, Xia dynasty, gu, ding, jue, piece-mold casting, pictograph, thunder pattern