Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey Culture Distributions: Integration and Interpretation of the CPAS Data

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Survey (2004–2011): Highlights from the Final Report" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey generated two complementary datasets that provide evidence of the distribution of archaeological material across the survey region: surface survey data and coring data. These datasets are combined to create “Activity Areas,” archaeological constructs that we argue reflect meaningful loci of past activity that have been identified through one, the other, or both of these survey methods. Our Activity Area catalogue shows the components of these various constructs. In this poster we examine the pattern of finds across the entire survey zone for the three primary chronological phases: Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Qin/Han era and show vignettes that illustrate several noteworthy locales discovered during the survey.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Survey (2004–2011): Highlights from the Final Report   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36525.0