Foragers and collectors in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (24,000-9000 CAL. BP)
book chapter 2012 Liu, Li & Chen, Xingcan

North China Upper PaleolithicAsia > East Asia
The authors are interested in the technological and ecological transitions needed for people to change from foraging to collecting economies, or Neolithization of archaeological assemblages. They examine Late Pleistocene to Holocene sites throughout ...

Neolithization
book chapter 2012 Liu, Li & Chen, Xingcan

Yellow River Early NeolithicAsia > East Asia
The authors discuss twelve Early Neolithic subcultures in the eastern half of China, providing summaries of each, focusing on the level of sedentism and on subsistence modes, including the use of domesticates. Only the cultures located in North China...

Emergence of social inequality
book chapter 2012 Liu, Li & Chen, Xingcan

Middle-Upper Yellow River Middle NeolithicAsia > East Asia
The authors provide an overview of a number of middle Neolithic cultural phases in eastern China (Hongshan, Beixin, Dawenkou, Yangshao, Daxi, Hemudu, Majiabang), and several from southeastern coastal China and Taiwan. They discuss changes in settleme...

Rise and fall of early complex societies
book chapter 2012 Liu, Li & Chen, Xingcan

Yellow River Late NeolithicAsia > East Asia
This survey of the Late Neolithic in China provides overviews of sites and regional subtraditions in the Yellow and Yangzi River valleys, where the greatest changes occurred, as well as brief descriptions of cultures in the remainder of country, many...

Bronze cultures of the northern frontiers and beyond during the early second millenium BC
book chapter 2012 Liu, Li & Chen, Xingcan

Yellow River Late NeolithicAsia > East Asia
This document ranges widely, but includes relevant information on the Qijia subtradition in the Upper Yellow River region from 4200-3600 BP. The authors provide information on its location and time span, the physical environment, subsistence and sett...

Formation of early states in the central plain
book chapter 2012 Liu, Li & Chen, Xingcan

Yellow River Bronze AgeAsia > East Asia
China independently developed one of the earliest state societies in the world, and has a long tradition of recording historical events, such as dynastic succession. The authors use archaeological and written evidence, informed by anthropological the...

The late Shang Dynasty and its neighbors (1250 - 1046 BC)
book chapter 2012 Liu, Li & Chen, Xingcan

Yellow River Bronze AgeAsia > East Asia
Using archaeological evidence, various inscriptions, and traditional documentary records, this document describes the Shang territory in an effort to understand interregional relationships. The Shang core area needed raw materials from neighboring po...

What did the grinding stones grind?
article 2010 Liu, Li et al.

Yellow River Early NeolithicAsia > East Asia
Grinding tools from two Peiligang subtradition sites were analyzed for evidence of what plants were processed using them, through examination of use-wear and starch residues....