Weapons in Late Shang (C.1250-1050 Bce) China: Beyond Typology and Ritual

ISBN-13: 9780367630775 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 376 str.

Qin Cao

Opis

Weapons in Late Shang (c.1250-1050 BCE) China explores the large quantities of bronze and jade weapons, such as dagger-axes, spears and arrows, found at the World Heritage site of Yinxu, the late Shang capital located near today’s Anyang city in central China

O autorze

Dr Qin Cao is the Curator of Chinese collections at the Oriental Museum, Durham University. She specializes in Chinese Bronze Age archaeology and numismatics, and completed her DPhil on Chinese Shang dynasty weapons at the University of Oxford in collaboration with the British Museum (Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Awards).