History of
metallurgy in China
The earliest metal objects in China date to around 3,000 BC.
China was also the earliest civilization that produced cast iron.
Recent evidence indicates that the earliest metal objects in China go back to the late fourth millennium BCE.
"The earliest sites that have yielded metal objects date to the late fourth and third millennia BCE. Quite early metal-using communities are found in Qijia and Siba sites in Gansu, with comparable sites in Xinjiang in the west, and others in Shandong, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia in the east and north, and in the Central Plain in the lowest levels at Erlitou."
Copper was generally the earliest metal to be used by mankind. The use of copper in ancient China goes back to 3,000 BC.
Although bronze artifacts were exhumed in the archeological sites of Majiayao culture (2700-2300 BC), it is still widely believed that China's Bronze Age began from around 2100 BC during the Xia dynasty.
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