Book
Emergent social complexity in the Yangshao culture: analyses of settlement patterns and faunal remains from Lingbao, western Henan, China (c. 4900-3000 BC)
Archaeopress • Oxford • Published In 2005 • Pages: x, 142
By: Ma, X..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author describes and analyzes the findings of a previous regional survey and from excavations at Xipo. The regional survey examined the settlement hierarchy from the pre-Yangshao through the Late Longshan phases. The limited excavations at the large site of Xipo uncovered remains from the Middle Yangshao phase (4000-3500 BC) and the Western Zhou period (1100-771 BC); only the Middle Yangshao remains are described and analyzed. The author concentrates on faunal remains (over eighty percent from domestic pigs), and on shedding light on the environment, land use, diet, and possible social interactions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Archaeological survey methods
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Fauna
- Domesticated animals
- Diet
- Land use
- Settlement patterns
- Territorial hierarchy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Middle-Upper Yellow River Middle Neolithic
- 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
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 2000-2001
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 6900-5000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Xipo, Lingbao, Henan, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Xiaolin Ma
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-141)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2006373074
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yangshao culture