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Yaoheyuan is a Chinese archaeological site in Pengyang County, Ningxia. Dating to the Western Zhou,

Background

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Archaeology

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The Yaoheyuan site was discovered in April 2017 by the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Regional Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology during a survey of the Red River (红河) basin in southeastern Ningxia.[1]

Site

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The Yaoheyuan site is located north of Yaohe village in Xinji Township, Pengyang County, Ningxia, near the source of the Red River, a tributary of the Jing (itself a tributary of the Wei and Yellow River).[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Ningxia 2022, p. 53.
  2. ^ Feng 2023, p. 1158.

Bibliography

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  • Feng, Luo (October 2023). "Political and Cultural Complexity in North-West China during the Western Zhou Period (1045–771 BC): New Evidence from Yaoheyuan". Antiquity. 97 (395). doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.104.
  • Sun, Nuoyang; Qiang, Ma; Bin, Han; Yang, Yimin (2023). "New insights into the subsistence strategies of the northwest frontier of the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BCE) through pottery lipid analysis". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15 (6). doi:10.1007/s12520-023-01785-6.
  • Ningxia Hui Autonomous Regional Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology; Pengyang County Commission for Preservation of Ancient Monuments (2021). "The Western Zhou Yaoheyuan site in Pengyang County, Ningxia". Chinese Archaeology. 22 (1). doi:10.1515/char-2022-0004.
  • Venture, Olivier (2021). "Recently excavated inscriptions and manuscripts (2008–2018)". Early China. 44. doi:10.1017/eac.2021.6.