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Tribal segmentation and spatial variabilityBook 2015 • Lee, Yun Kuen
Middle-Upper Yellow River Middle Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
In this dissertation about a previously-excavated site the author used museum collections, studying features and artifacts and their placements within the excavation units in order to understand intra-site spatial variation and social organization ev...Centripetal settlement and segmentary social formation of the Banpo traditionarticle 2007 • Lee, Yun Kuen
Middle-Upper Yellow River Middle Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
The author uses the excavations and findings from the site of Jiangzhai to explore segmentary social organization. The focus is on the settlement pattern, intra-site use of space, and ceramic types and decorations, especially the etched signs....Tradition Summaryessay 2020 • Lee, Yun Kuen & Berry, Sarah H. (Archaeologist)
Middle-Upper Yellow River Middle Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
This is a summary of the Middle-Upper Yellow River Middle Neolithic Tradition. Information is presented on major aspects of the Middle-Upper Yellow River Middle Neolithic archaeological tradition....A biological perspective on Yangshao kinshiparticle 1993 • Gao, Qiang & Lee, Yun Kuen
Middle-Upper Yellow River Middle Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
The authors used craniometric data (39 variables) for a discriminant analysis of the internments at Shijia cemetery in order to understand whether individuals in the multiple internments were more closely related to each other biologically than they ...Mortuary treatment, pathology, and social relations of the Jiahu communityarticle 2008 • Smith, Barbara Li & Lee, Yun Kuen
Yellow River Early Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
The authors examined the mortuary practices of the Neolithic village of Jiahu for approximately five hundred internments, and analyzed the human skeletal remains for incidence of several pathologies (chronic infectious disease, iron-deficiency anemia...