book chapter
Foragers and collectors in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (24,000-9000 CAL. BP)
archaeology of China: from the late paleolithic to the early bronze age • Cambridge • Published In 2012 • Pages: 42-74
By: Liu, Li, Chen, Xingcan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 East Asia, concentrating on eastern China.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Climate
- Fauna
- Flora
- Sociocultural trends
- Preservation and storage of food
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- North China Upper Paleolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 24,000-8600 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Li Liu ; Xingcan Chen
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2011052557
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ordosian
- Antiquities, Prehistoric--China