Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Volume 8Department of Archaeology, 1989 - Archaeology |
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HUMAN SACRIFICE AND ANCIENT CHINESE SOCIETY1 Huang Zhan Yue Human sacrifice , the practice of burying the living with their deceased clan head , patriarch or feudal lord as an act of worship of the gods or ancestors , was common in ...
HUMAN SACRIFICE AND ANCIENT CHINESE SOCIETY1 Huang Zhan Yue Human sacrifice , the practice of burying the living with their deceased clan head , patriarch or feudal lord as an act of worship of the gods or ancestors , was common in ...
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... human sacrifice continued but on a much smaller scale , involving the immolation of just a few victims for major rituals rather than the large - scale slaughter of prisoners of war . The Shang and Zhou dynasties arose from two different ...
... human sacrifice continued but on a much smaller scale , involving the immolation of just a few victims for major rituals rather than the large - scale slaughter of prisoners of war . The Shang and Zhou dynasties arose from two different ...
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... human sacrifice during the Eastern Zhou . On the one hand , royalty , nobles and ministers seem to have commonly employed the practice : Mozi speaks of a system whereby royalty and nobles were interred with up to several hundred ...
... human sacrifice during the Eastern Zhou . On the one hand , royalty , nobles and ministers seem to have commonly employed the practice : Mozi speaks of a system whereby royalty and nobles were interred with up to several hundred ...
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