Land Use in Neolithic Northeast China
Author(s): Hsi-Wen Chen
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Hongshan societies (4500-3000 BC) in Northeast China were the first to witness a dramatic increase in population since the adoption of agriculture and a sedentary way of living were embraced some 9000 years ago in the region. Many aspects of Hongshan social dynamics have not been fully elucidated in detail. Regional surveys explore human-land relationships at a regional scale and reveal inconsistent extents to which agricultural productivity served as a major determinant of settlement patterns in different survey areas. A conceptualization of land-use in Neolithic Hongshan times provides a way of thinking about the deviating patterns of population distribution.
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Land Use in Neolithic Northeast China. Hsi-Wen Chen. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467677)
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Keywords
General
Digital Archaeology: GIS
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Neolithic
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Settlement patterns
Geographic Keywords
Asia: East Asia
Spatial Coverage
min long: 70.4; min lat: 17.141 ; max long: 146.514; max lat: 53.956 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 33201