Jar burials: a glimpse into ancient China’s compassion, funeral practices for infant deaths

New study indicates Neolithic cultures in China may have separated graves of perinatal infants; different treatment than ...

China's earliest Bronze Age meteoritic iron artifact unearthed at Sanxingdui sacrificial site

In a study published in Archaeological Research in Asia, Dr. Haichao Li and a team of researchers analyzed the earliest ...

An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly different lines ...
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Ancient Egypt and early China : state, society, and culture / Anthony J. Barbieri-Low

Introduction -- The landscapes of the Nile and Yellow River -- Empire and diplomacy -- Akhenaten, Wang Mang, and the limits of reform -- Legal principles and the administration of justice -- Scribal ...
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Writing & literacy in early China : studies from the Columbia Early China Seminar / edited by Li Feng and David Prager Branner

Introduction : writing as a phenomenon of literacy / Li Feng and David Prager Branner -- Getting "right" with heaven and the origins of writing in China / David W. Pankenier -- Literacy and the ...
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Ancient Tomb May Belong to Early Chinese King

A tomb dating back 5,000 years, which archaeologists believe may belong an early Chinese king, has been discovered in central China. The grave of what archaeologists believe may be the king of a ...