Ling Shi Jing Jie Shang Mu

Author: Hai Jinle
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book is the excavation report of three Shang Dynasty tombs in Jingjie Village, Jingsheng Town, Lingshi County, Shanxi Province. A large number of exquisite bronze artifacts, as well as some jade and stone objects, were unearthed from these tombs, providing important material evidence for the study of archaeology and cultural relics of the Bronze Age in the Jinzhong region. The book is divided into three parts: the upper part, the lower part, and the appendix. The upper part comprehensively, objectively, and systematically introduces the basic data of the three Shang tombs excavated from 1976 to 1985, accompanied by a large number of line drawings, photographs, X-ray images, and rubbings. The lower part conducts fruitful explorations from aspects such as form, decoration, inscriptions, and social status. At the end, there is also a research report on the metallographic and alloy composition analysis of these bronze artifacts.