February Lecture: ‘Auspicious Gold’ and ‘Precious Stones’: Rethinking Weapons in Bronze Age Shang China (c.1250-1050 BCE)
Huge quantities of bronze and jade weapons have been discovered in Shang period tombs in China from over 3,000 years ago. But what was the significance of these artefacts to early Chinese civilization
About February Lecture: ‘Auspicious Gold’ and ‘Precious Stones’: Rethinking Weapons in Bronze Age Shang China (c.1250-1050 BCE)
Renowned for its magnificent bronze vessels, the Shang is a major period foundational to the forming of Chinese civilization. However, the even larger quantities of bronze and jade weapons from Shang tombs have attracted less scholarly attention. Do they simply represent the status and military role of the deceased? Were they merely ritual implements?
Join us online or in person on 23 February 2023 as Dr. Qin Cao, Curator of Chinese collections at the Oriental Museum at Durham University, explores the significance of weapons to early Chinese civilization.
Image credit: Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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