Neolithic China (Other Keyword)
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Description of the abbreviations used in the Taosi and Zhouijazhuang faunal databases
Globalization and world systems as alternative modes of cultural transmission in the eastern China, 5000-2500 BC (2016)
An eastern crescent zone of the Middle to Lower Yangtze and upwards to Shandong can be defined as a zone of Globalization processes in the Neolithic that was eventually broken down into a number of cores in a world system. The globalization model operates through Neolithic networks, that had no clear political centre but nevertheless promoted shared practices and cultural values over large distances. This is illustrated by the spread of food cultures: crops, cooking methods and ceramic...
Large Walled Sites on the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan, China: Shifting Centers of Regional Emphasis (2017)
In the third millennium BC, several walled sites were inhabited in the Chengdu Plain of Sichuan, China. These late Neolithic settlements varied in size and shape, and they had mounded earth walls, some encompassing the largest areas of any known sites of their time in China. The site of Baodun is the largest known example, and has recently been the focus of extensive excavations. Other known sites in the region include Gucheng in Pi Xian County, the most completely preserved of these walled...
Portable XRF Analysis of the Pigments of Majiayao Pottery from Dayatou, NW China (2017)
The site of Dayatou is located on a terrace bluff in the Tao River Valley in Gansu province, Northwest China.In 2015, the Tao River Archaeological Project team conducted systematic collection across the surface of the bluff and recovered thousands of Majiayao culture potsherds. To identify the technology and provenances of these potsherds, in the 2016 field season we used a portable XRF in a handheld configuration to analyze the chemical elements of the black paint decorated on 124 selected...
A Study on the Mid-to-Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age Agricultural Economies and their Development at Huizui Site, Yiluo Valley Region, China (2015)
In order to gain procedural understanding of early agricultural economies, researches have much to gain from in-depth, diachronic study of agricultural development in a single region. This study focuses on the changes in agricultural plant-use over time in the Yiluo Valley, North-Central China by using archaeobotanical data from the Mid-to-Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age occupations (c 3500 – 1500 BC) at Huizui. The study’s analysis confirms that changing plant-use patterns at Huizui...
Taosi Age Data (2015)
Dental and epiphyseal fusion data for sheep, pigs, and cattle at Taosi
Taosi Faunal Database (2015)
Raw faunal data, bone charts, and contextual data for Longshan period Taosi
Zhoujiazhuang Age Data (2015)
Dental and epiphyseal fusion data for sheep, pigs, and cattle at Zhoujiazhuang
Zhoujiazhuang Faunal Database (2015)
Raw faunal data, bone charts, and contextual data for Longshan period Zhoujiazhuang
Zooarchaeology of Longshan Period Taosi and Zhoujiazhuang, Shanxi Province, China
Zooarchaeological data from: Brunson, K. 2015. Craft Specialization and Animal Products at the Longshan Period Sites of Taosi and Zhoujiazhuang, Shanxi Province, China. PhD dissertation, University of California Los Angeles. Dissertation Abstract: The late third millennium BCE was a period of technological and cultural change in China’s Yellow River valley. Domestic cattle and sheep were introduced into China from West Asia during this period, marking a shift in the zooarchaeological...