Shifting materials

Variability, homogeneity and change in the beaded ornaments of the Western Zhou

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7657986
AutoresPeter Hommel (0000-0001-5045-9096, University of Oxford), Margaret Sax (0000-0001-7980-5490, British Museum)
Ano2014
Volume88
Fascículo342
Páginas1213-1228
Data de publicação2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00115418
OpenAlexW1808332582
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas13

Academic interest in the elaborate bead assemblages recovered from graves of the Western Zhou elite has grown in recent years. Beads and beaded ornaments have been seen as both markers of external contact and evidence of change in the Zhou ritual system. Recent study of these bead assemblages, however, indicates that they may also have reflected shifting political circumstances. The use of different bead materials and forms suggests a trend to centralised production and control of manufacture, particularly from the later tenth century BC. The authors correlate a move towards readily manufactured materials with evidence for widespread elite intermarriage, and consider a possible tension between production and the socio-political strategies of the Zhou court

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bead · Elite · Ornaments · Political science · Politics · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies