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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
An Zhimin
Title:
The Bronze Age in eastern parts of Central Asia
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
History of civilizations of Central Asia, volume 1, edited by A. H. Dani, V. M. Masson
Published By: Original publisher
History of civilizations of Central Asia, volume 1, edited by A. H. Dani, V. M. Masson
Paris: Unesco. 1992. 319-336, 506-507 p. ill., map
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.
Eastern Central Asia Neolithic and Bronze Age (AJ50)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Identification (101);
Location (131);
Cultural participation (184);
Ceramic technology (323);
Metallurgy (325);
General tools (412);
Visual arts (5311);
Burial practices and funerals (764);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an overview of Bronze Age cultures and their differences in Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang provinces. The cultures discussed are: Qijia, Siba, Xindian, Tangwang, Siwa, Kayue, and Shajing. Bronze Age cultural remains from Xinjiang province have not been named as research has just begun there. The ceramic and bronze artifacts and technologies for each culture or province are briefly discussed along with stone and bone artifacts and mortuary remains.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
5
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.
aj50-005
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Component part(s), monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 506-507)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
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; 1999
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
4630 BP-2221 BP(2630 B.C.-221 B.C.)
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang provinces, China
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
China--Antiquities
