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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Peregrine, Peter N. (Peter Neal), 1963-
Berry, Sarah H. (Archaeologist), 1960-
Title:
Tradition Summary: Yellow River Early Neolithic
Published By: Original publisher
New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files. 2020. online document
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Peter N. Peregrine and Sarah Berry
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2020. 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);
Abstract: Brief 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.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
0
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.
af45-000
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:
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
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
Archaeologists-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).
8500-6200 BP
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
North China
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Peiligang culture
