Intricate ceramic bronze-casting moulds are among the most significant archaeological
remains found at Bronze Age metallurgical workshops in China. Firing temperature was …

Anyang, the last capital of the Chinese Shang dynasty, became one of the largest metal
consumers in Eurasia during the second millennium BCE. However, it remains unclear how …

Shifts in ceramic technology are often assumed to reflect wider social changes. Closer
attention, however, needs to be directed to the fundamental issue of production. Shifts in the …

Despite decades of efforts to reconstruct the bronze production and metal distribution
systems of the Shang period in Bronze Age China, there remains limited understanding of …

A combination of polarised light microscopy analyses with geochemical techniques
interpreted through Principal Component Analyses (PCA) was employed to characterise …

Abstract The Early Shang (sixteenth to fourteenth century BC) capital at Zhengzhou revealed
two large-scale bronze casting foundries and a large amount of metallurgical remains. They …

Recent archaeological excavations revealed a significant amount of bronze casting moulds
and cores dated to the Middle-Shang period and demonstrated it as a vital stage in the …

Studying ceramics in Chinese archaeology in the early dynasties often faced the issue of
analyzing ceramics high in quartz all within the same silt size due to the use of loess. The …

Bronze coins, starting to be used in the Eastern Zhou period (770− 221 BC) in China, were
produced in ceramic piece molds, a predominant technique for bronze casting in the …

The Neolithic painted pottery of northwest China has long been admired for its high level of
craftsmanship. Yet, little is known about the technological processes and potting …