Shamanistic Threads of Ancient China in Mesoamerica - Dr. Li Min, UCLA

Dr. Li Min is a professor of prehistoric and Bronze Age Chinese
archaeology at UCLA, who focuses on state formation, social
memory, and story telling. He is also a key player in the
excavation of Shimao, a site on the Yellow River in Northwest
China that displays iconography from four thousand years ago that
looks strikingly Mesoamerican. We discuss the context in which
Shimao rose to become a major regional power, the heady
interaction sphere between the city and the shamanic Steppe and
Altai cultures that surrounded it, the persistence of imagery
unchanged across thousands of years, and much more. Dig into Dr.
Li Min’s work by reading up on Social Memory and State Formation
in Early China, available for purchase in a way that supports the
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