1984/10/01 by W. Rostoker, Bennet Bronson, James A. Dvorak · 5 citations
Social Sciences · #Chinese history and philosophy #Eurasian Exchange Networks #Cast iron #China #Metallurgy #Ancient history #Materials science #Geography #Archaeology #History
paper · doi:10.2307/3104621
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already being cast: one of the five found in 1959 at Laoliangcang in Hunan Province weighs more than 150 kilograms.2 This tradition reached a peak of refinement in the late Zhou dynasty, when a number of large sets of carefully tuned and matched bronze bells are known to have been made. The most notable example is a well-preserved set of sixty-five elaborately decorated double-toned bells from Sui Xian in Hubei, found in a tomb dating to 433 B.C.3 A smaller set of fourteen, equally luxurious in design, was recovered from a tomb of the 3d