China, Central America: Taiwan taimado

Also: Colombia, the Netherlands, Yemen, and Afghanistan.

Olmec mask, c.1000-300 BC, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Some Mesoamerican archaeologists have suggested Shang dynasty contact in early Olmec civilisation.

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