The Cemetery at Qijiaping: New insights into the production and use of ceramics vessels

Summary

Excavated in 1975, the cemetery at the Qijia Culture type-site of Qijiaping in southern Gansu province, China, provides a wealth of data on life and death in Qijia society. Up to this point however, the production and use of the most common type of burial good, ceramic vessels, has never been fully researched. This paper will explore production organization and methods likely used to produce several classes of vessels though statistical analysis of vessel standardization. Ideas of what constitutes standardization and what that means for our understanding of the Qijia Culture will also be addressed. Possible functions and contents of these vessels will then be discussed based on the initial results of use-wear analysis. This will allow for new insights into production and consumption of vessels and their contents at Qijiaping.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Qijia Culture of Northwest China – Entering a New Era of Research   •
• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage