Were the Shang mesoamerican?
>>18547434Yes OP. The Shang were mesoamerican.
>Were this culture on the literal opposite side of the planet, that existed like 1500+ earlier then the Classic Maya to whom they have allegedly similar art to, and which used bronze even though the Classic Maya didn't even smelt gold/silver much let alone bronze, and actually Classic Mayans, when we also have remains of Classic Maya people who show no genetic link to the Ancient Chinese?Geez wiz OP, what do you think?(The answer is no, Shang/Zhou dyansty art is just vaguely similar to Maya art Coincidentally, the same way Minoan architecture is coincidentally similar to Aztec architecture)
>>18547434The Shang were defined by the fact they smelt bronze while Mesoamerica had no metallurgy whatsoever until like 800 AD
>>18548125It convergent culture or divergent civilization
>>18547434I do notice the arts are somewhat similar.Probably shared the same Northern Asian/Siberian ancestry from 10000 years ago
How did shang go from ugga booga cavemen with jade and bronze to the Han empire? Seems fake
>>18548479They had a ton of interactions with steppenigs that may or may not included Indo-Europeans, Changs are keeping all of this under the lid. But if you read the period it's very easy to connect the dots
>>18548486Archaeologically speaking, they had completely different crops than indo-europeans. They evolved on their own. They are a separate species.
i like Shang... spooky ancient aoe1 vibes, eheh
