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occupied for less than a century and deliberately destroyed by fire around the time of the construction of the Yinxu complex.Chinese archaeologists now assign the city to a Middle Shang period.

Precursors

Encouraged by the partial confirmation of Sima Qian's account of the Shang, archeologists embarked on a search for earlier capitals.Postwar excavations uncovered earlier urban centres in the area just south of the east-west stretch of the Yellow River.Erlitou, in the valley of the Luo River,

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