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SUMMARY:Beyond bronze and jade: Proto-porcelain production and trade in ea
 rly China - Yi Bao (Fudan University)
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CONTACT:Qin-Qin Lü
DESCRIPTION:While much has been written about the technological complexity
  and long-distance trade of ritual bronzes and jade in early China\, compa
 ratively little research as been deployed to the early history of a materi
 al that would become iconic of China: porcelain. High-fired pottery began 
 to appear in China around 5\,000 years ago\, and porcelain emerged approxi
 mately 3\,800 years ago. Interestingly\, all the early high-temperature ce
 ramic kiln sites were concentrated in southern China\, while the capital s
 ites of the Xia and Shang Dynasties (2070 BC–1046 BC) were concentrated 
 in northern China. In this region\, there is no archaeological evidence fo
 r porcelain production\, but hard pottery and proto-porcelain have been fo
 und abundantly. In an unprecedented collaborative effort\, we collected sa
 mples of hard pottery and porcelain from nearly all the capital and kiln s
 ites dating back to the Xia and Shang periods\, and conducted PIXE and XRF
  tests and data analysis. The results show that the high-temperature ceram
 ics in the northern capital sites originated from southern kilns\, reveali
 ng large-scale production and trade of porcelain already in the Xia and Sh
 ang periods. This trade was not interrupted by warfare or dynastic changes
 \, and provides an interesting point of comparison for the circulation of 
 other luxury materials such as bronze and jade.\n\nIn person and online. \
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 -9a81-5aa7e67f945e%22%7d\n\n--\n\nYi Bao is a postdoc in the department of
  cultural heritage and museology\, Institute of Archaeological Science\, F
 udan University. She is the is the principal head of the ancient ceramics 
 laboratory. She has a multidisciplinary background in geology\, materials 
 science\, and archaeology. In 2012\, she obtained the FGA certification of
  Gemmological Association of Great Britain\, and in 2019\, she earned her 
 PhD in Materials Science from Fudan University. Her primary research focus
 es on the scientific archaeology of ancient Chinese ceramics and jade\, wi
 th a particular emphasis on the origins of porcelain. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research\, D
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