Human Sacrifice, Oracle Bones, and Shang China: Interview with Professor Rod Campbell
Tides of History
What's Going on in the Central Planes?
Anon, from an archaeological perspective is also clearly related to what i would call the central planes bronze age. And that starts a with arlito, which most chinese archaeologists would call the sha dynasty or the very end of the shad donasty. So it almost seems like each one of these kind of mega centres is its own new project that kind of sucks people from the four quarters into this new assemblage of civilization. At what point and how does someone start thinking of themselves as shang? Is it the first people who move to the great capital? Or is it three generations on when everyone's stuff all looks the same at that metropolitan sight?"
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