Erligang
See also: Èrlǐgǎng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Erh-li-kang
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 二里崗/二里岗 (Èrlǐgǎng).
Proper noun
Erligang
- A village in Henan, China, site of the Bronze-Age Erligang culture
- a Bronze Age urban civilization and archaeological culture in China
- [1980, Chang, Kwang-chih, “Shang Archaeology outside An-yang and Cheng-chou”, in Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 79-19107, OCLC 959049017, OL 4415240M, pages 311, 314:
- In the Huai River valley, which as we saw has yielded good evidence of Shang occupation in the Erh-li-kang phase, there have been a number of late Shang sites that have been reported on, but the only site of any notable scale is the residential-plus-burial site at Ch'iu-wan 丘灣, north of Hsü-chou in northwestern Kiangsu, discovered in 1959 and excavated in 1959, 1960, and 1965.]
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