Recent Discoveries and Some Thoughts on Early Urbanization at Anyang

Zhichun Jing · George Rip Rapp · James B. Stoltman

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Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies Chinese history and philosophy Archaeological and Geological Studies

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The study of earliest cities and civilizations has been one of the dominant subjects of archaeological research in China. Anyang is a modern city in the northern Henan panhandle where two of the earliest cities developed in early Bronze Age China. These two urban sites are named Yinxu and Huanbei. This chapter discusses some recent discoveries in Anyang, followed by some thoughts concerning the nature of the Shang cities and the material and social processes of early urbanization, particularly at Yinxu. The chapter talks about the walled area of the Huanbei site and the spatially segregated lineage-based cemeteries at Yinxu. Archaeological and epigraphic data suggest that the zi prince lineages resided within the so-called “palace-temple district” and had their own neighborhoods where they lived their lives and buried their dead. Burials have an extensive distribution beyond the palace-temple district at Xiaotun.

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