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Has anybody figured out exactly where Guanzhuang is? China is huge. And even if TFA says it’s near the Yellow River, the Yellow River is also quite long. Having
by k_sze 5y ago
Has anybody figured out exactly where Guanzhuang is? China is huge. And even if TFA says it’s near the Yellow River, the Yellow River is also quite long. Having only the phonetic name, without even the province name, is really unhelpful.
- k_sze 5y agoThe source article in Antiquity says Xingyang, Henan province. That’s 河南省滎陽市. Trying to pinpoint it now. (But even Henan may have multiple cities or municipalities with the same phonetic spelling. Crossing fingers.)
- milkllz 5y agoI went to the source and saw the map. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/radiocarbondating-an-early-minting-site-the-emergence-of-standardised-coinage-in-china/178ECC2B245A017BF684BE1EFC732BD1 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ra... And from the map. It looks like it's around this part of Yellow River. (Guanzhuang, Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Henan, China 34.69942093691378, 113.36167182390584)
- k_sze 5y agoYes. That （關莊） seems about right. I was initially looking for 管莊 or 官莊, both of which would have the same phonetic spelling.
- mikhailfranco 5y agoThe Daily Mail had good coverage of this story, but got the location very wrong. Look at the first map in the article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9865429/Worlds-oldest-coin-mint-discovered-China.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9865429/Worl... It's the place you get if you type 'Guanzhuang' into Google maps. The point they draw is not in Henan, even though the caption says Henan. If you scroll down to the second map, it only shows historical context, not modern place names, but the marked location is correct: just west of Zhengzhou.