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

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.