Walled towns, Warfare, Flooding control, Jianghan plain (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dongdong Li. Wenjing Wang.

The late Neolithic in the Jianghan plain is characterized by the emergence of a new kind of settlement pattern. In this period, highly nucleated large local communities were walled as regional centers. In the past decades, the emergence of walled sites has caused hot debates on its social dynamics, particularly on function and causal factors. Most explanations for the emergence of walled sites fall into warfare model and flooding control model. To evaluate those models, we investigate into both...