The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Survey (2004–2011): Highlights from the Final Report

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Survey (2004–2011): Highlights from the Final Report" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey was completed in 2011 after five seasons of large-scale surface survey and subsurface coring, geophysics, and test excavations. The survey examines prehistoric through Han-era settlement patterns in the Chengdu Plain of the Sichuan Basin of China, surrounding two walled sites dating to the Neolithic Baodun period. Finds were collected from surface contexts and auger holes and dated to the Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Han periods and reflect changing land use across the region during the 2,000+ years at the end of the common era. Various unavoidable circumstances delayed the processing and interpretation of many of the data, but now a completed report of the database and synthetic studies has been completed. This session symposium includes posters from various team members representing elements of the report.

Other Keywords
Survey • Landscape Archaeology • Neolithic • Bronze Age • Paleoethnobotany • Magnetometry • China • Landscape • Craft Production • Remote Sensing/Geophysics

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  • Changes in Land Use and Landscape in Twentieth-Century Chengdu Plain Survey Area (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rowan Flad. Josh Wright. Zhanghua Jiang. Kueichen Lin. Zhiqing Zhou.

    This is an abstract from the "The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Survey (2004–2011): Highlights from the Final Report" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Various available aerial imagery from the 1960s through 2000s allow for examination of changing ground surface conditions in the Chengdu Plain in recent decades. Surface conditions impact accessibility, visibility, and preservation of archaeological evidence of ancient human activity in the area. They...

  • Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey Culture Distributions: Integration and Interpretation of the CPAS Data (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Shuicheng Li. Joshua Wright. Rowan Flad. Kueichen Lin. Zhanghua Jiang.

    This is an abstract from the "The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Survey (2004–2011): Highlights from the Final Report" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey generated two complementary datasets that provide evidence of the distribution of archaeological material across the survey region: surface survey data and coring data. These datasets are combined to create “Activity Areas,” archaeological constructs that we argue...

  • Environmental Context and Archaeobotanical Results of the Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ming Jiang. Jade d'Alpoim Guedes. Zhanghua Jiang. Zhiqing Zhou. Rowan Flad.

    This is an abstract from the "The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Survey (2004–2011): Highlights from the Final Report" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The constraints and advantages presented by the natural environment of the Chengdu Plain had important impacts on how ancient humans exploited and occupied this environment. This poster considers how that the Plain was subject to a high degree of geomorphological remodeling due to frequent flooding and...

  • Fieldwork Prior to the CPAS and the Influence of CPAS on Recent Fieldwork (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kuei-chen Lin. Zhiqing Zhou.

    This is an abstract from the "The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Survey (2004–2011): Highlights from the Final Report" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster examines archaeological fieldwork and discoveries made in the Chengdu Plain prior to the launch of the Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey (CPAS) project in 2005. We pay particular attention to pre-Qin sites found in key areas of CPAS. Since the 1980s, due to the urban development of the...

  • Geophysical Survey Results from the Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Horsley.

    This is an abstract from the "The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Survey (2004–2011): Highlights from the Final Report" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents a sample of the results of geophysical investigations conducted as part of the Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey. Magnetometer surveys were undertaken at more than 20 locations to augment the results of surface collection survey and augering, helping to locate buried features as...

  • Petrographic Analysis of CPAS Ceramics: Long-Term Continuity and Change in Chengdu Plain Pottery Production (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Chastain.

    This is an abstract from the "The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Survey (2004–2011): Highlights from the Final Report" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although ceramic analysis is sure to be a critical line of evidence for understanding the development of complex society in the Chengdu Plain (Sichuan province, China), only a small number of technical studies have been carried out on pottery from the region. Ceramic sherds collected by the Chengdu Plain...