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Erlitou

Bronze Age walled settlement in the Yellow River valley, China's first state-level society and birthplace of its bronze ritual-vessel tradition - debated by scholars as the late Xia or early Shang dynasty capital.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1,900 BCE mainstream
  settlement founded, Erlitou culture begins source
• 1959 CE mainstream
  site discovered by Xu Xusheng source

Where

34.6925° N, 112.6900° E

Sources

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Erlitou-culture
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlitou_culture

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