Erhlitou

Erh-li-t'ou English Etymology From en cmn 二里頭, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Êrh⁴-li³-tʻou². Proper noun en Erlitou. en 1978 Panlungcheng Excavation Team Panlungcheng, the Remains of a Shang City New Archaeological Friends in China (II) More Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution https://archive.org/details/newarchaeologica0001unse/ 1st Peking w:Foreign Languages Press 26, 31 https://archive.org/details/newarchaeologica0001unse/page/26/ Through comparison with the remnants of mud walls on the foundations of the large early Shang palace found in Erhlitou, Yenshih County,⁴ Honan Province, it may be assumed that between the main wooden columns there were smaller wooden posts set close together with weeds and ropes thrust between them, and straw-reinforced mud plastered on top to form "mud walls reinforced with timber rods." ⁴zh 偃师县二里头