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The evolution of early Yangshao Period village organization in the middle reaches of northern China's Yellow River valley
becoming villagers: comparing early village societies • 6 • Published In 2010 • Pages: 246-275
By: Peterson, Christian E., Shelach-Lavi, Gideon.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors describe how village life changed over the four thousand years of the Peiligang and Yangshao phases. Concentrating on the Yangshao phase, they examine political, economic and social changes by describing changes in village organization, house form, settlement hierarchy, burial practices, population, households, and social hierarchy, including gender differences.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Settlement patterns
- Production and supply
- Status, role, and prestige
- Household
- Community structure
- Territorial hierarchy
- Burial practices and funerals
- Gender roles and issues
- 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
- essay
- 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; 2019
- 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
- 7000-2800 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Wei and Yellow river valleys - eastern Gansu, Shaanxi, and western Henan, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Christian E. Peterson and Gideon Shelach
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2010011948
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yangshao culture