Yamnaya get around: Map of the spread of Indo-European languages Who were the Yamnaya? People we call the Yamnaya (Ukrainian for "People who lived in pits") seem to have been [...]
Where do horses come from? Wild horses and the history of horses Where did horses first evolve? Horses, at first, were all wild animals like zebras are today. Although they [...]
Did climate change cause a Bronze Age crisis? Tomb stela of Nemti-ui, from the First Intermediate Period. The stele's only painted, not carved, because people couldn't afford carving after the climate [...]
Chinese numbers: number rods Chinese numbers People in China were using written numbers by about 1500 BC, in the Shang Dynasty. This is about two thousand years later than people began [...]
Heng O: A sacrifice to the moon Who was Heng O? Heng O was the Chinese goddess of the moon. In Taoist thought about yin and yang, Heng O is the [...]
Shang Dynasty China: Late Shang bronze pitcher from Henan, about 1100 BC, with inscription (Musee Guimet, Paris) China enters the Bronze Age Around 2000 BC, people in China learned how [...]
Shang bronze pitcher, about 1300 BC(Musee Guimet, Paris) When did the Bronze Age start in China? By about 2000 BC, people in China learned from the people of West Asia how [...]
Late Shang bronze pitcher from Henan, about 1100 BC, with inscription (Musee Guimet, Paris) What if you were a bronze-smith in ancient China? Use colored pencils to draw your own [...]
The Shang Dynasty city wall around Zhengzhou (thanks to Gary Todd) There was a city wall of rammed earth around the Shang capital at An-yang, and around other cities like [...]
Remains of the Shang Dynasty palace at Erlitou The beginning of Chinese architecture Even as early as the Shang Dynasty, about 1500 BC, the buildings we know about look like [...]
