This indicates that inhabitants of the Yellow River valley had already learned how to make copper artifacts by the later Yangshao period. These include the copper-smelting remains and copper artifacts of the Hongshan culture (4700–2900) and copper slag at the Yuanwozhen site. Archaeologists have found remains of copper metallurgy in various cultures from the late fourth to the early third millennia BCE. Jiangzhai is the only place where copper artifacts were found in the Banpo culture. Ĭopper manufacturing, more complex than jade working, gradually appeared in the Yangshao period (5000–3000 BCE). The Central Plain sites associated with the Erlitou culture also contain early metalworks. Įarly metal-using communities have been found at the Qijia and Siba sites in Gansu, with similar sites in Xinjiang in the west and Shandong, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia in the east and north. Copper was generally the earliest metal to be used by humanity, and was used in China since at least 3000 BCE. Copper Īrchaeological evidence indicates that the earliest metal objects in China were made in the late fourth millennium BCE. China was the earliest civilization to use the blast furnace and produce cast iron. The majority of early metal items found in China come from the North-Western Region (mainly Gansu and Qinghai, 青海). Metallurgy in China has a long history, with the earliest metal objects in China dating back to around 3,000 BCE. Bronze tiger inlaid with gold and silver, Han dynasty
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