Erligang

Proper noun

Erligang

1. A village in Henan, China, site of the Bronze-Age Erligang culture
   • Shang bronzes predating the thirteenth century BC were first found at Erligang, in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. The finds at Erligang include the site of an early Shang city wall and, around it, the remains of workshops that made pottery, bone implements and bronzes.1995, “The Early and Middle Shang: The Formative Period”, in Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Shanghai Museum, →OCLC, page 12
2. a Bronze Age urban civilization and archaeological culture in China
   • In the Huai River valley, which as we saw has yielded good evidence of Shang occupation in the Erh-li-kang phase, there have been a number of late Shang sites that have been reported on, but the only site of any notable scale is the residential-plus-burial site at Ch'iu-wan 丘灣, north of Hsü-chou in...[1980, Kwang-chih Chang, “Shang Archaeology outside An-yang and Cheng-chou”, in Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 311, 314
   • The third change appeared during the Erligang period (early and middle Shang dynasty), when wheat (Triticum aestivum) was adopted into the local farming system.2021 May 13 [2021 March], Hua Zhong, “On the advancement of agriculture during the Pre-Qin period in the Central Plain of China from archaeobotanical findings”, in SEAA Newsletter, archived from the...