Erlitou

Èrlǐtóu English + culture Erlitou culture Alternative forms en Erh-li-t'ou Erhlitou Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en cmn 二里頭 Èrlǐtóu two Li head. Pronunciation ĕrʹlēʹtōʹ en Er li tou Proper noun A Bronze Age culture along the Yellow River in China en 1979 Katheryn McAllister Linduff Local Styles Tradition, Phase and Style of Shang and Chou Bronze Vessels https://archive.org/details/traditionphasest0000lind/ w:Garland Publishing 0-8240-3237-3 77-94705 1131359311 4573207M 111 https://archive.org/details/traditionphasest0000lind/page/111/ Of the other Honan sites reported since 1954 which have been assigned to the Erh-li-t'ou culture, none are as rich as Erh-li-t'ou itself. on en 1987 w:Jessica Rawson Introduction Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual https://archive.org/details/chinesebronzesar00raws/ w:British Museum Publications 0-7141-1439-1 1183919119 9 https://archive.org/details/chinesebronzesar00raws/page/9/ At present the direct antecedents of the sophisticated cast vessels from Erlitou-period tombs excavated at Yanshi near Luoyang remain undiscovered. en September 17, 1999 Paul Richard China's Timeless Treasures w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20231030225011/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/09/17/chinas-timeless-treasures/d7d8cdb9-6837-4c8f-bac2-39195c0ec18d/ 30 October 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/09/17/chinas-timeless-treasures/d7d8cdb9-6837-4c8f-bac2-39195c0ec18d/ 0190-8286 2269358 Not so very long ago, the Xia and the Shang, legendary dynasties of the distant past, were regarded by most scholars as pleasing, misty fantasies, as sweetly insubstantial as Camelot or Shangri-La. Not anymore. A small turquoise plaque made 3,800 years ago by the culture known as Erlitou is now thought to be a Xia piece. en August 4, 2016 Nicholas Wade Scientific Evidence of Flood May Give Credence to Legend of China’s First Dynasty w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20160804195714/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/science/china-great-flood-xia-emperor-yu.html 04 August 2016 0362-4331 1645522 Dr. Wu’s team said its reconstruction of the outburst flood from the Jishi Gorge showed that the ancient textual accounts of the Great Flood “may well be rooted in a historic natural event.” The finding also supports the idea, the researchers say, that archaeological remains found at Erlitou, a site about 1,550 miles downstream from the gorge, may have been the Xia capital, given that the Erlitou culture dates to 1900 B.C., the same time as the Jishi Gorge flood. en village district/Yanshi prefecture-level city/Luoyang p/Henan c/China. en 1975 November Nai Hsia The Slaves Were the Makers of History—New archaeological finds on ancient Chinese slave society w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1975-11/ w:China Welfare Institute XXIV 11 0009-4447 1554324 40 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1975-11/page/n41/ 2 Continued excavation at the Shang dynasty site at Erlitou in Yenshih county, Honan province, has yielded more finds of importance. en 2006 Robert L. Thorp Visiting China's Past: A Guide to Sites and Resources https://archive.org/details/visitingchinaspa0000thor/ 1-891640-33-X 804186599 67–68 https://archive.org/details/visitingchinaspa0000thor/page/67/ Most Chinese archaeologists believe that a site called Erlitou near Luoyang was for a time a Xia capital. If one takes the traditional commentaries and texts seriously, Erlitou was certainly at the right place and the right time to be a Xia capital. en August 4, 2016 Nicholas Wade Scientific Evidence of Flood May Give Credence to Legend of China’s First Dynasty w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20160804195714/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/science/china-great-flood-xia-emperor-yu.html 04 August 2016 0362-4331 1645522 Dr. Wu’s team said its reconstruction of the outburst flood from the Jishi Gorge showed that the ancient textual accounts of the Great Flood “may well be rooted in a historic natural event.” The finding also supports the idea, the researchers say, that archaeological remains found at Erlitou, a site about 1,550 miles downstream from the gorge, may have been the Xia capital, given that the Erlitou culture dates to 1900 B.C., the same time as the Jishi Gorge flood. en 14 July 2017 Thomas Bird The rise and fall of Luoyang, China’s forgotten capital w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20170715165046/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2102482/rise-and-fall-luoyang-chinas-forgotten-capital https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2102482/rise-and-fall-luoyang-chinas-forgotten-capital July 15, 2017 1563-9371 648902513 Long Reads The excavation of a 2,000-year-old palace in the village of Erlitou, Yanshi county – which has since been recovered as farmland – led to the site being identified as Zhengxun, the last capital of the Xia, by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This sparked both excitement and scepticism throughout the academic world. Translations culture; locations Chinese: Cantonese: yue 二里頭 Mandarin: cmn 龍山, cmn 二里頭 Èrlǐtóu Further reading Erlitou, Erh-li-t'ou