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. 2017 Mar 31;355(6332):1382.
doi: 10.1126/science.aal1369.

Comment on "Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty"

Jian-Chiu Han  1
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Comment on "Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty"

Jian-Chiu Han. Science. .

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By analyzing the data and methodology of Wu et al (Reports, 5 August 2016, p. 579), I find that their conclusions about the scale of the dammed lake, the dating of the lake, and the peak discharge at the point of dam failure and at the Lajia site cannot be validated. The conjecture of the supposed Great Flood and its impact on the formation of the early Chinese dynasty is not substantiated.

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