New Discoveries and Multidisciplinary Research at Yangguanzhai, China
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
Yangguanzhai is the largest known middle Neolithic site in the Wei River Valley of China. In over ten years of excavation and research at the site have yielded data on pottery production, house structures, diet, burial practices, and the construction of an ancient moat. In this session, current and former project participants will present research project in ceramic analysis, geoarchaeology, bioarchaeology, paleoethnobotany, and other fields. This ongoing multidisciplinary research has generated significant new information and a greater understanding of craft production, settlement structure, and domestic life in prehistoric central China.
Other Keywords
Ceramics •
China •
Geoarchaeology •
Paleoethnobotany •
Micromorphology •
Stable Isotopes •
Ethnoarchaeology •
Faunal Remains •
Neolithic •
human-environment interaction
Geographic Keywords
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Isl (Country) •
Territory of Guam (Country) •
Republic of Indonesia (Country) •
Republic of Tajikistan (Country) •
Kyrgyz Republic (Country) •
Japan (Country) •
Asia (Continent) •
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lan (Country) •
Kingdom of Thailand (Country) •
Kingdom of Cambodia (Country)
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- Documents (12)
- Analysis of Ancient Chinese Pottery Utilizing X-Ray Fluorescence and Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (2017)
- Faunal remains from the Yangguanzhai site (2017)
- The Influence Holocene Changes in Hydrological Conditions and River Course Migration of the Jing and Wei Rivers on the Yangguanzhai Settlement (2017)
- Micromorphology and isotopic geochemistry of the Yangguanzhai moat deposit (2017)
- Microscopic Analysis of Sherds from Pit H85 (2017)
- A Middle Yangshao Cemetery of the Yangguanzhai Settlement (2017)
- Oral Health in the Middle Yangshao Guanzhong Basin (2017)
- Paleoethnobotany of Yangguanzhai (2017)
- Soil, Hands, and Heads: An Ethnoarchaeological Study on Local Preconditions of Pottery Production in the Wei River Valley (Northern China) (2017)
- A Soil-Stratigraphic Record of Landscape Evolution and Human-Environment Interaction at the Yangguanzhai Archaeological Site, North-Central China (2017)
- Understanding the Settlement Structure of the Middle Yangshao Period (Miaodigou Phase) based on Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Wei River Valley (2017)
- A Vertical Loess Cave Dwelling at Yangguanzhai? (2017)