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

Jian-Chiu Han

doi:10.1126/science.aal1369

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

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

Author

Jian-Chiu Han¹

Affiliation

¹ Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

PMID: 28360292
DOI: 10.1126/science.aal1369

Abstract

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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