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A culture from this river drew a stork on a jar that may not be exhibited abroad, among other painted pottery that J. G. Andersson linked to Turkmenistan’s Anau culture. The author of Art, Myth, and Ritual proposed shamanistic state formation on this river based on pit burials from 1200 BCE, which suggest that the Northern Zone complex rapidly introduced many-spoked chariots. “Doubters of antiquity” questioned the historicity of this river’s supposed “5,000-year-old (10[1])civilization,” (10[2])which was (10[1])traced from its Neolithic rammed-earth walls by a (10[1])“chronology (10[1])project” for three (10[1])traditional periods. (10[1])A term for “flower” came to distinguish this river’s settled Central Plain (10[2])from four directional “foreigners” who did not farm the “five cereals,” like (10[2])millet. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what river’s Bronze Age cultures included the (10[1])Èrlǐgǎng (10[1])(“ar-lee-gong”), Èrlǐtóu (10[2])(“ar-lee-toh”), and (10[1])Shāng? ■END■ (10[3])

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