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Liaoning bronze dagger culture

Liaoning bronze dagger culture proper noun: an archaeological culture dating from the Bronze Age in north-eastern China and parts of the Korean Peninsula, characterised by the high zinc content of the bronze daggers which it manufactured.

Proper noun

Liaoning bronze dagger culture

  1. An archaeological culture dating from the Bronze Age in north-eastern China and parts of the Korean Peninsula, characterised by the high zinc content of the bronze daggers which it manufactured.
    • Although the origin of the Korean bronze age culture may be traced back to the Liaoning bronze dagger culture, the Korean bronze dagger culture has its own unique features, as demonstrated by the typology and styles of Korean bronze ritual objects, which differ from the Liaoning bronze dagger...1998, “Korean Prehistory”, in Gwon Gu Kim et al., transl., National Museum of Korea, Seoul: Tongchon Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 32, column 2

Origin of Liaoning bronze dagger culture

Partial calque of Mandarin 遼寧青銅文化 /辽宁青铜文化 (Liáoníng qīngtóng wénhuà), from 遼寧 /辽宁 (Liáoníng, “Liaoning”) + 青銅 /青铜 (qīngtóng, “bronze”) + 文化 (wénhuà, “culture”), with Liaoning being the location of the type site, and the fact that the culture is characterised by its manufacture of bronze daggers. By surface analysis, Liaoning + bronze + dagger + culture.

Questions about Liaoning bronze dagger culture

What does Liaoning bronze dagger culture mean?
Liaoning bronze dagger culture means an archaeological culture dating from the Bronze Age in north-eastern China and parts of the Korean Peninsula, characterised by the high zinc content of the bronze daggers which it manufactured.
What part of speech is Liaoning bronze dagger culture?
Liaoning bronze dagger culture is a proper noun.

Words near Liaoning bronze dagger culture in the dictionary

  1. Liao-yang
  2. Liaocheng
  3. Liaodong
  4. Liaodong Peninsula
  5. Liaoning
  6. Liaoning bronze dagger culture
  7. Liaotung
  8. Liaoxi
  9. Liaoyang
  10. Liaoyuan
  11. liar

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