The bronze artifacts from the Yejiashan site and the political presence of the Zhou dynasty in the middle Yangtze Plain: an application of lead isotope analysis

doi:10.1007/s12520-017-0478-5

	The bronze artifacts from the Yejiashan site and the political presence of the Zhou dynasty in the middle Yangtze Plain: an application of lead isotope analysis
	Mu, Di 1,2,3,4; Luo, Wugan 3,4; Huang, Fengchun 5; Song, Guoding 3,4
刊名	ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
	2018-10-01
卷号	10 期号:7 页码:1547-1555
关键词	Lead isotope Chinese bronzes Shang dynasty ICP-MS
ISSN号	1866-9557
DOI	10.1007/s12520-017-0478-5
通讯作者	Luo, Wugan(bronzesucas@hotmail.com)
英文摘要	Lead isotope ratios of 15 Chinese bronze artifacts from the Yejiashan site (Suizhou City, Hubei Province) were analyzed and compared with copper ores across China. This study attempts to provide a new perspective to discuss the role that Zeng State played among all the vassal states in the early Zhou dynasty (ca. 1046-977 BC). The political presence of the Zhou dynasty in the middle Yangtze Plain is another main content of this paper. The lead isotopic characteristics of Chinese bronze artifacts between different historical periods are also in the scope of the study. By comparison, the lead isotopic ratios of the tested bronzes and copper deposits in the north Jiangxi Province show numerous overlaps. It indicates that the tested bronzes might have a single ore source, and this source was in the south of the Zhou dynasty. Combined with history and archaeological records, it is highly likely that the middle Yangtze Plain might be a part of the Zhou dynasty since the very beginning. Moreover, Zeng State might have a great influence in the ancient middle Yangtze Plain, and the nobles of Zeng State might even have authority to supervise certain area extending to Jiujiang. As lead isotopes of the bronzes appear to show a clear relation to chronology, the change of lead isotope patterns across times may further serve to distinguish the bronzes of the Western Zhou dynasty from the late Shang ones.
资助项目	Junior Fellowships for CAST Advanced Innovation Think-tank Program[DXB-2KQN-2016-031] ; National Scholarship Fund of China (CSC)[201404910198] ; Special Foundation for Young Scholar's Teaching and Research in Scientific History at Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015) ; National Social Science Fund of China[13BKG004] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41471167]
WOS关键词	PROVENANCE
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geology
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
WOS记录号	WOS:000443832000002
资助机构	Junior Fellowships for CAST Advanced Innovation Think-tank Program ; National Scholarship Fund of China (CSC) ; Special Foundation for Young Scholar's Teaching and Research in Scientific History at Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015) ; National Social Science Fund of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/8943]
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Luo, Wugan
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Sci, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Dev, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Humanities, Dept Archaeometry, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 5.Hubei Prov Inst Cultural Relics & Archaeol, Wuhan 430077, Hubei, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mu, Di,Luo, Wugan,Huang, Fengchun,et al. The bronze artifacts from the Yejiashan site and the political presence of the Zhou dynasty in the middle Yangtze Plain: an application of lead isotope analysis[J]. ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES,2018,10(7):1547-1555.
APA	Mu, Di,Luo, Wugan,Huang, Fengchun,&Song, Guoding.(2018).The bronze artifacts from the Yejiashan site and the political presence of the Zhou dynasty in the middle Yangtze Plain: an application of lead isotope analysis.ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES,10(7),1547-1555.
MLA	Mu, Di,et al."The bronze artifacts from the Yejiashan site and the political presence of the Zhou dynasty in the middle Yangtze Plain: an application of lead isotope analysis".ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES 10.7(2018):1547-1555.