image: This image highlights the variable timelines for the start of the Xia dynasty according to traditional Chinese culture, the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project and the flood that was newly identified and dated by Wu et al. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 5, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Q. Wu at Peking University in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, 'Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty.' view more
Credit: Carla Schaffer/AAAS