Belt hook

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<h3>East Asia</h3>

<p>The earliest archaeological evidence of belt hooks date to the 7th century BCE, in East Asia.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Belt hooks were made with bronze, iron, gold, and jade.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Texts from <a href="/facts/Warring_States_period/8P3avwna">Warring States period</a> China claim that the belt hook originates from Central Asian nomads, although belt hooks have been found in China predating the Warring States.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> The equestrian tradition, initially foreign to China, was tightly related to wearing belted pants, thus belt hooks became one of the features of "<a href="/facts/Hua%E2%80%93Yi_distinction/33CoSpDC">barbaric</a>" exoticism. As such, the hooks became an object of aesthetic contemplation. For example, <a href="/facts/Qu_Yuan/U3wgE15X">Qu Yuan</a> (c. 340-278 BCE) compares beautiful women to the belt hooks <i>xianbei</i> (鮮卑).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<h3>Europe</h3>
<p>Belt hooks have also been found in <a href="/facts/Celts/eMCVYAFz">Celtic</a> archaeological sites.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Belt hooks at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Kipfer, Barbara Ann (30 April 2000). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Springer. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-306-46158-3. <a href="978-0-306-46158-3" target="_blank">978-0-306-46158-3</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Wagner, Donald B. (1993). Iron and Steel in Ancient China. BRILL. p. 169. ISBN 978-90-04-09632-5. <a href="978-90-04-09632-5" target="_blank">978-90-04-09632-5</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Kipfer, Barbara Ann (30 April 2000). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Springer. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-306-46158-3. <a href="978-0-306-46158-3" target="_blank">978-0-306-46158-3</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Kipfer, Barbara Ann (30 April 2000). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Springer. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-306-46158-3. <a href="978-0-306-46158-3" target="_blank">978-0-306-46158-3</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Wagner, Donald B. (1993). Iron and Steel in Ancient China. BRILL. p. 169. ISBN 978-90-04-09632-5. <a href="978-90-04-09632-5" target="_blank">978-90-04-09632-5</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Mair, Victor H. (2006). "Kinesis versus Stasis, Interaction versus Independent Invention" (PDF). In Mair, Victor H.; Bentley, Jerry H.; Yang, Anand A. (eds.). Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World. University of Hawai‘i Press. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054625/http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/books/mair-contact-intro.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054625/http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/books/mair-contact-intro.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Harding, D. W. (18 June 2007). Archaeology of Celtic Art. Psychology Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-415-35177-5. <a href="978-0-415-35177-5" target="_blank">978-0-415-35177-5</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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