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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. Dustcover has some wear and marking. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Radiological dating available thus far still fails to resolve the question of the earliest date of Shang bronze but does tend to corroborate the historical evidence for placing the Anyang period of the dynasty between the fourteenth and eleventh centuries B.c.1 The exact date of 1027 con- tinues to be accepted by the majority of scholars for the fall of the Shang dynasty. It has the approval of the Peking Institute of Archaeology and is supported by calendrical calculations. Within the Chou dynastie period an additional resource for estimating the relative age of sites is the typological study of pottery which was hitherto somewhat neglected. By placing the potter’s tou ting and hu in sequence an extensive burial site such as Chung-chou-lu has been subdivided into nine stages from Western Chou to Han. Some of the most important bronzes to be published by the Peking Institute of Archaeology (in a preliminary form since the material was removed to Formosa) are those of the tombs of the dukes of the Wei state at Liu-li-ko in Hui-hsien Honan. (SP)