Indigenous production and interregional exchange: late second-millennium BC bronzes from the Hanzhong basin, China
Indigenous production and interregional exchange: late second-millennium BC bronzes from the Hanzhong basin, China
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本土生产和区域间交流：中国汉中盆地公元前二千年末青铜器
DOI：
10.15184/aqy.2016.94
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发表时间：
2016-06-01
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影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Zhao, Congcang
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作者：
Chen, Kunlong;Mei, Jianjun;Zhao, Congcang
中国早期青铜冶金的传统研究主要集中在类型学、装饰和制作方法等方面。然而，应用新的分析技术来研究化学成分，正在提供重要的新见解。使用这样一种方法（电子探针微分析）来研究中国中部汉中盆地的青铜器文物显示出一定程度的多样性，这意味着青铜器时代扩展的景观网络比以前认为的要复杂得多。从一个新的角度来欣赏这些发现的能力，可以超越旧的、简单的模型，并证明汉中地区在青铜时代中国中部的权力结构中占有比以前认识到的更重要的地位。
Abstract Traditional studies of early bronze metallurgy in China have focused on typology, decoration and production methods. The application of new analytical techniques to investigate chemical composition, however, is offering important new insights. The use of one such method (electron probe microanalysis) to study bronze artefacts from the Hanzhong basin in central China shows a level of diversity that implies much greater complexity in the extended landscape networks of the Bronze Age than was previously thought. The ability to appreciate these finds from a new perspective allows progression beyond older, simplistic models, and demonstrates that the Hanzhong region held greater importance within the power structure of Bronze Age Central China than has previously been recognised.