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Landscape variability and regional settlement pattern of Shang's periphery: from regional full-coverage surveys (2016)
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The landscape variability was one of the most important factors influencing the regional sociopolitical organizations in the peripheral regions of Shang. In this study, we compared the regional settlement pattern of two regions--one at the broad alluvial plain of the Middle Huai River, which presents a loosely-structured, but still hierarchical regional settlement pattern; and the other at the hilly Guan River valley, which shows a dramatic retreat of human occupation. By investigating these two...