Preliminary analysis of prehistoric settlement patterns in the mid reaches of the Dadu River

Summary

Some of the largest and most important prehistoric archaeological excavations conducted during the last ten years in Sichuan , were those in the Hanyuan Valley in the mid reaches of the Dadu River. So far, ten prehistoric sites have been excavated, revealing hundreds of housing remains, burials, trash pits and other features containing thousands of ceramic objects, stone tools, and bone objects. Utilizing this wealth of new material, this paper presents an analysis of the Neolithic settlement patterns of the Dadu River Valley. This paper aims to understanding the layout and evolution of individual settlements and overall settlement patterns alike as well as the patterns of human adaptation to the marginal environment of the middle reaches of the Dadu River.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Recent Advances in the Settlement and Landscape Archaeology of (South)west China and Southeast Asia Part II: The Micro Perspective of Internal Settlement Organization and Object Production

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