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Washington University in St. Louis
Bronze production, Geochemical analysis, Paleo-environmental pollution, Public health, Shang Dynasty, Yinxu Anyang
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Paleo-Environmental Pollution Of The Bronze Production During The Shang Period At Anyang, Henan Province, China, Yi-Ling Lin
Paleo-Environmental Pollution Of The Bronze Production During The Shang Period At Anyang, Henan Province, China, Yi-Ling Lin
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Paleo-environmental pollution is invested in both identifying anthropogenic activities and evaluating the environmental condition and its impact on humans to understand human-environment relationships and the human experience of the past. This project first investigates the environmental and health consequences of bronze production during the Shang period at Anyang. As a contribution to the growing scholarship in paleo-environmental and archaeological studies, this dissertation uses Shang bronze production in Anyang as a case study into how paleo- environmental pollution study can inform us about the on environmental and health conditions of lives in the Bronze Age China. Through geochemical analysis (ICP-MS, ICP-OES) …