A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . , and is of the eighth century ; but it is doubtfulwhether this axe can really be of so early a date. One thing isclear, that the number of Chinese implements at present known islarge enough to prove the existence of a Bronze age in the Far Eastagainst those Orientalists who formerly denied it; yet it is difficult. Fiii. 112.—Ilalijeit-bladu, China. to say how long an exclusively Bronze culture lasted, as thereappears to be still a difference of opinion as to the respective datesat which b
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . , and is of the eighth century ; but it is doubtfulwhether this axe can really be of so early a date. One thing isclear, that the number of Chinese implements at present known islarge enough to prove the existence of a Bronze age in the Far Eastagainst those Orientalists who formerly denied it; yet it is difficult. Fiii. 112.—Ilalijeit-bladu, China. to say how long an exclusively Bronze culture lasted, as thereappears to be still a difference of opinion as to the respective datesat which bronze and iron were first used. The latter metal wascertainly introduced very late into the remoter parts of theSouthern Provinces of Kwang-tung and Kwang-Si, for when inthe Hrst century the famous Cliinese general Ma defeated theMan. or early inhabitants of these regions, he seized an enormousnumljer of Ijronze weapons still employed by his opponents, andmelted them down to make boundary columns, trophies, and largemetal drums. The socketed spear-head exhibited in Case K, dating,according to the inscription upon it, from the year 209 ,iniless made for ceremonial use, would also seem to show thatbronze weapons were still made in China much later than theywere in Europe. The bronze implements, socketed celts, &c.,found in Burma, Java, and Celebes belong to the Southern-Chineseand Annaniite archaeo
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