The External Connections of the Yingpanshan Site Cluster in Western Sichuan, China

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Previous studies suggest that both painted pottery vessels and certain kinds of cereals, such as millets, were introduced to the Upper Min River from the north due to the expansion of the Neolithic cultures in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, during the fourth millennium BC. By investigating related ceramic samples and human and animal teeth and bones from the Yingpanshan site cluster in the drainage of the Upper Min River, near the border of Sichuan, Gansu, and Qinghai, we further discover that the direction and intensity of influences had changed through time and varied by river valleys. Interactions between the Upper Min River and the Chengdu Plain to the southeast also existed and later, the core-periphery relationship seemingly overturned.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24746