Instead, the dogs may have been stand-ins for human sacrifices, Campbell said. Shang Dynasty elites often sent concubines and slaves to their deaths, burying their bodies in the tombs of the rich ...

These findings fit what we know from written records from Shang Dynasty, which suggest that human sacrifices weren't made simply whenever prisoners were captured. Instead, there seems to have ...

Human sacrifice was not unusual during the Shang Dynasty, and most medium/large size tombs from this time period contain human sacrifices. Professor Jing explained that that further scientific ...

Excavations at the Erlitou site, touted by some scholars as the capital of China’s earliest dynasty, the Xia, have also found signs of the practice. But it was during the Shang that human sacrifice ...

Prior worked revealed an extraordinary number of ritual human sacrifices were conducted during the Shang dynasty, which spanned from the 16th century B.C. to the 11th century B.C. It is the ...

The elite of the Shang dynasty commonly undertook ritual human and animal sacrifices, placing offered remains in burial pits or within the tombs of the dead. Archaeologist Roderick Campbell of ...

Researchers found a kneeling decapitated skeleton in China and believe the human died as part of a sacrifice. The remains were spotted in the Chaizhuang site of Jiyuan's Henan province, stated ...

(Also found were the remains of 16 attendants, evidence of the dynasty’s well-documented practice of human sacrifice.) The Shang’s relationships with their neighbors were not exclusively martial.

Instead, the dogs may have been stand-ins for human sacrifices, Campbell said. Shang Dynasty elites often sent concubines and slaves to their deaths, burying their bodies in the tombs of the rich ...