An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters
via arstechnica.com
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Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly different lines of evidence to tell the story. People in Shang Dynasty China, around 3,000 years ago, probably didn’t realize that the massive floods sweeping […]