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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- 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
- 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 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; 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
- 7000-5000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- China; Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Li Liu ; Xingcan Chen
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2011052557
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yangsaho
- Antiquities, Prehistoric--China