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Ref ID: 33652
Ref Type: Journal Article
Authors: Lu, Tracey Lie-Dan
Title: From barkcloth beating to silk weaving: the textile industry from prehistory to the western Han Dynasty in south China
Source: Textile Museum Journal
Notes: in south China, documents bark cloth beaters by 6000 BP
spindle whorls by 6000 BP, probably for hemp
silk in the lower Yangtzi by 5000-4600 BP
silk in south China c. 200 BC
Date Freeform: 1997-1998
Date Created: 11/20/2002
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