1. Archaeology and Humanity’s Story
Chapter 10
Deborah I. Olszewski

2. Figure 10.1: Timeline for the Yellow and Yangtze River areas of China (OUP).

3. Figure 10.2: Map showing location of sites in China (OUP).

4. Figure 10.3: Plan view of some of the houses and features, such as storage pits, at Jiangzhai, China, during the Yangshao period (redrawn from Peterson and Shelach, 2012: Fig. 1).

5. Figure 10.4: A dragon mosaic from Eritou, China (reproduced by permission of Xu Hong).

6. Figure 10.5: The taotie (“two-eye”) motif from an Erligang period bronze vessel (Deborah I. Olszewski).

7. Figure 10.6: Plan map of some of the areas at the Shang capital of Anyang (redrawn from Campbell et al, 2011: Fig 1).

8. Figure 10.7: A simplified chart of political organization within the Shang Kingdom (based on Trigger, 2003).

9. Chinese writing on a Shang Dynasty oracle bone (user Herr Klugbeisser on de.wikipedia

10. Figure 10. 9: A Shang Dynasty ritual bronze vessel (University of Penn
Figure 10.9: A Shang Dynasty ritual bronze vessel (University of Penn. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Photographic Archives image , object no. C352A).

11. Figure 10.10: Some of the terra-cotta army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (courtesy of Richard M. Leventhal).