Question

What might "tangible artifacts" tell us about the Shang?

Answer 1

When ancient cities get lost in China, they get lost in places like Anyang. The ebbs and flows of 20th-century history rushed across this part of the Yellow River plain, leaving their traces like so much jumbled driftwood. Outside of Anyang stands the tomb of warlord Yuan Shikai, who briefly seized control of the nation in the 1910s. Anyang's new downtown—white tile, blue glass—is a monument to another conqueror, the modernization of post-reform China. Wedged between the tomb and the town, there's an old airstrip that was built by Japanese imperialists during their occupation in the 1930s.

Answer 2

It would tell us how they built things.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Shang dynasty governed the Lower Yellow River Valley. This dynasty superseded dynasty Xia and succeeded by dynasty Zhou of China. This dynasty is the earliest dynasty of China that is supported by various archaeological evidence. Tens of thousands of jade, bronze, stone, ceramic and bone artifacts belonging to this dyansty have been found. These artifacts tells us about how they built things.