book chapter
Emergence of social inequality: the middle Neolithic (5000 - 3000 BC)
archaeology of China: from the late paleolithic to the early bronze age • Cambridge • Published In 2012 • Pages: 169-212
By: Liu, Li, Chen, Xingcan.
Abstract
The authors provide an overview of a number of middle Neolithic cultural phases in eastern China (Hongshan, Beixin, Dawenkou, Yangshao, Daxi, Hemudu, Majiabang), and several from southeastern coastal China and Taiwan. They discuss changes in settlement patterns and settlement hierarchy, architecture, burials, status items, ceramic styles (and other evidence in an examination of nascent cultural interaction), ritual power, social complexity, elites, and inequality.
- Subjects
- Identification
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Cultural participation
- Ceramic technology
- Public structures
- Settlement patterns
- Visual arts
- Status, role, and prestige
- Social relationships and groups
- Territorial hierarchy
- Magical and mental therapy
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cult of the dead
- Ritual
- tradition
- Middle-Upper Yellow River Middle Neolithic
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry; 2019
- Field Date
- not applicable
- Coverage Date
- 7000-5000 BP
- Coverage Place
- China; Taiwan
- Notes
- Li Liu ; Xingcan Chen
- LCCN
- 2011052557
- LCSH
- Yangsaho
- Antiquities, Prehistoric--China