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Tradition Summary: Yellow River Early Neolithic
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2020 • Pages:
By: Peregrine, Peter N. (Peter Neal), Berry, Sarah H. (Archaeologist).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a summary of the Yellow River Early Neolithic tradition. Information is presented on major aspects of the North China Upper Paleolithic archaeological tradition.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yellow River Early Neolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2020
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- 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
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 8500-6200 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Peter N. Peregrine and Sarah Berry
- This tradition summary is based on the article "Peiligang" by Peter N. Peregrine in the Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 3, East Asia and Oceania, Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Plenum Publishers. 2001. Sarah Berry revised and significantly expanded the summary in May, 2018. We thank Peter N. Peregrine and Anne Underhill for bibliographic suggestions.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Peiligang culture