Erlitou Culture and Rise of the Xia Dynasty
2070 BCE
First urban bronze-using state in the Yellow River Valley, linked to the early Xia Dynasty.
Sources and References
Site archéologique d'Erlitou (Luoyang, Henan - Institut d'Archéologie de la CASS)
Consulter l'archive officielle ↗Sima Qian, Shiji (Chapitre 2 : Annales des Xia)
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Ancient China clusterXia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han: writing, philosophy, unification and the Silk Road.
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