The Qijia Culture:Paths East and West

摘要

In the lengthy story of cultural exchange between central Eurasia and China, the Qijia culture has special importance because metal objects make their first appearance in the Chinese archaeological record within this context. The objects in question, modest implements and other small items made of hammered or cast copper, and more rarely of bronze, derive from earlier ones typical for Eurasian population groups across Western Central Asia and south Siberia, where metallurgy was already well-established.