Pit (IMAGE)

Field Museum

Pit

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Dr. Hui Fang, Professor of Archaeology at the Center for East Asian Archaeology Studies at Shandong University, scrapes the edge of a farmer's field to reveal the profile of a pit from the Western Zhou period (1046-771 B.C.) evidenced by the darker colored soil. To his left is University of Chicago graduate student Adam Schwartz.

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Photo by Anne Underhill, courtesy of The Field Museum

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