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The transition from foraging to farming in China
Indo-Pacific prehistory : the Melaka papers / editorial team, Peter Bellwood ... [et al.]. • 2 • Published In 1999 • Pages: 77-80
By: Lu, Tracey Lie Dan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an overview of early agriculture in China, touching on several topics: theories regarding the rise of agriculture, environmental factors, associated artifact types, where evidence for agriculture has been found, and under what circumstances people might have shifted from foraging to agriculture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Climate
- Flora
- Sociocultural trends
- Collecting
- Cereal agriculture
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- North China Upper Paleolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeobotanist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No Date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 23,000-7000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Tracey Lie-Dan Lu
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-80)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2004426205
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ordosian