The Ancient Mining and Smelting Site at Tonglushan(1999) puts forward that the start mining time of Tonglushan site is in the late Shang Period.In recent years,some scholars have questioned on the matter that the start mining time of Ancient Mining and Smelting Site at Tonglushan is Shang Dynasty.In fact,this suspicion does not have sufficient evidence.Based on the analysis of the development and change of the mode of production,production and technical characteristics in various stages of,14 C measured dat...