Lin, YX;
Rehren, T;
Wang, H;
Ren, XY;
Ma, J;
(2019)
The beginning of faience in China: A review and new evidence.
Journal of Archaeological Science
, 105
pp. 97-115.
10.1016/j.jas.2019.03.007.
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Abstract
Despite decades of research into faience artefacts in China, many questions remain about how, where and by whom this technology began. This study combines published and new results of chemical analysis, morphology and chronology of the earliest faience beads uncovered from Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi and Shanxi to suggest that at the latest in the mid-second millennium BC faience was first imported from the northern Caucasus or the Steppe into Xinjiang. In the second half of the second millennium, the Kayue people in Qinghai began making high potash faience, before the Zhou people in Shaanxi and Shanxi learnt and distributed the technology more widely across central China, probably via contacts with their pastoralist neighbours.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The beginning of faience in China: A review and new evidence |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jas.2019.03.007 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.03.007 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Faience,China,Zhou |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10073122 |
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