Landscape variability and regional settlement pattern of Shang's periphery: from regional full-coverage surveys
Author(s): Yanxi Wang
Year: 2016
Summary
The landscape variability was one of the most important factors influencing the regional sociopolitical organizations in the peripheral regions of Shang. In this study, we compared the regional settlement pattern of two regions--one at the broad alluvial plain of the Middle Huai River, which presents a loosely-structured, but still hierarchical regional settlement pattern; and the other at the hilly Guan River valley, which shows a dramatic retreat of human occupation. By investigating these two settlement patterns, we hope to look into the variability in the sociopolitical organizations at the peripheral regions during the Shang period.
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Landscape variability and regional settlement pattern of Shang's periphery: from regional full-coverage surveys. Yanxi Wang. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 405322)
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Keywords
General
Landscape
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Settlement Pattern
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Shang's periphery
Geographic Keywords
East/Southeast Asia
Spatial Coverage
min long: 66.885; min lat: -8.928 ; max long: 147.568; max lat: 54.059 ;