"Erh-li-t'ou" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1979, Katheryn McAllister Linduff, “Local Styles”, in Tradition, Phase and Style of Shang and Chou Bronze Vessels, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 111:",
          "text": "Of the other Honan sites reported since 1954 which have been assigned to the Erh-li-t'ou culture, none are as rich as Erh-li-t'ou itself.",
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          "ref": "1980, Donn Bayard, “East Asia in the Bronze Age”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168, column 1:",
          "text": "The Shang civilization itself arose in a relatively small area of western Honan province. At Erh-li-t’ou and Cheng-chou excavations have documented the transition from the Lung-shan to the earliest stage of the Shang. Erh-li-t’ou has yielded evidence of bronze metallurgy, a highly stratified society, craft specialization and the presence of large structures with pounded earth (hang-t’u) foundations.",
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          "ref": "1998, Herbie Brennan, Martian Genesis: the Extraterrestrial Origins of the Human Race, Piatkus, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 172–173:",
          "text": "Until recently, the Hsia Dynasty was considered a purely mythic expression of Chinese prehistory, but archaeological finds in the 1970s established its reality. According to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China,¹ its capital was at Erh-li-t'ou in Honan Province.",
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