Metallurgy in Ancient Eastern Asia: Retrospect and Prospects |
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Authors: | Katheryn M Linduff Jianjun Mei |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Art History, University of Pittsburgh, 104 Frick Fine Arts Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA;(2) Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, People’s Republic of China |
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Abstract: | Metallurgy has been taken as essential to the development of Chinese civilization. Archaeological study has been particularistic
and evolutionary, tied to traditional Chinese historiography, and modern Marxist models of social development. Modern studies
suggest that metallurgy emerged independently in a ‘core’ area and then spread to ‘peripheral’ areas by way of political expansion
and cultural diffusion over many millennia, and that metallurgy was also homegrown. New excavations suggest: multiple early
centers of production; that the Chinese case belongs to a regional context; that native sources of ores were significant;
that metals were used in several pre-state level societies. |
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