How the ancient shang state managed to produce more bronze than any other civilization by sourcing raw materials from 960 miles away
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New research suggests that tin used by China’s Shang dynasty, which made bronze on a scale no other ancient society matched, came from far away mountains in the far northeast. Some of it traveled more than 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) south before metalworkers at a casting workshop turned it into …
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