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The Chinese Northern frontier: reassessment of the Bronze Age burials from Baifu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mrea Csorba
Mrea Csorba*
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Department of History, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA 15282, USA
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All across the thousands of kilometres of northern central Asia — from the Baltic Sea to the Yellow Sea — burials have been key to the later prehistoric sequence. The immediate subjects of this article are three late Bronze Age burials from North China; rich and well-preserved with weaponry and horse fittings, with agate and rush matting, they tell also of the world outside China, for into one of the daggers is cast the full-face image of a Caucasian male, complete with handlebar moustache.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 564 - 587
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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