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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
An, Zhimin
Title:
Prehistoric agriculture in China
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Foraging and farming: the evolution of plant exploitation, edited by David R. Harris and Gordon C. Hillman
Published By: Original publisher
Foraging and farming: the evolution of plant exploitation, edited by David R. Harris and Gordon C. Hillman
London ; Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1989. 643-649 p. ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
An Zhimin
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2019. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Yellow River Early Neolithic (AF45)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Identification (101);
Culture summary (105);
Domesticated animals (231);
Cereal agriculture (243);
General tools (412);
Chronologies and culture sequences (911);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document provides a brief, broad overview of the Early Neolithic in the eastern half of China, including information on agricultural tools, cereals grown, and domestic animals.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
8
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
af45-008
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 649)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
Not Applicable
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Archaeologist-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Sarah Berry; 2018
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
8000-7000 BP
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
eastern China
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Peiligang culture