Sociocultural Trends

Domesticated Animals

Settlement Patterns

Property in Movables

Social Relationships and Groups

Household

Rules of Descent

Lineages

Community Structure

Burial Practices and Funerals

Mourning

Chronologies and Culture Sequences

Bibliographies in Sources

Mnemonic Devices

Ceramic Technology

Utensils

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Visual Arts

Identification

Status, Role, and Prestige

Classes

Community Heads

Racial Identification

Population

Morbidity

Mortality

Gender Roles and Issues

Climate

Topography and Geology

Flora

Fishing Gear

Cordage

Bone, Horn, and Shell Technology

Lithic Industries

Weapons

General Tools

Soil

Special Burial Practices and Funerals

Cult of the Dead

Prayers and Sacrifices

Land Use

Masonry

Public Structures

Ingroup Antagonisms

Military Installations

Warfare

Location

Tillage

Preservation and Storage of Food

Diet

Collecting

Hunting and Trapping

Fishing

Gratification and Control of Hunger

Ornament

Eschatology

Cultural Participation

Material Not Relevant

Reviews and Critiques

Shamans and Psychotherapists

Ethnometeorology

Religious and Educational Structures

Organized Ceremonial

Occupational Specialization

Dwellings

Housing

Miscellaneous Facilities

Woven and Other Interworked Fabrics

Division of Labor by Gender

Poultry Raising

Cereal Agriculture

Vegetable Production

Animal by-Products

Religious Experience

Fauna

Talent Mobility

Tribe and Nation

Territorial Hierarchy

Diagnostic Material Attributes

TRADITION SUMMARY: MIDDLE-UPPER YELLOW RIVER MIDDLE NEOLITHIC

ORIENTATION

CULTURAL SUMMARY

CREDITS

ABSOLUTE TIME PERIOD

RELATIVE TIME PERIOD

LOCATION

DIAGNOSTIC MATERIAL ATTRIBUTES

REGIONAL SUBTRADITIONS

IMPORTANT SITES

ENVIRONMENT

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

CLIMATE

TOPOGRAPHY

GEOLOGY

BIOTA

SETTLEMENT SYSTEM

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

HOUSING

POPULATION, HEALTH, AND DISEASE

SUBSISTENCE

WILD FOODS

DOMESTIC FOODS

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

UTENSILS

ORNAMENTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

DIFFERENTIAL ACCESS OR CONTROL OF RESOURCES

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

CONFLICT

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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The Middle-Upper Yellow River Middle Neolithic Tradition occurred from 7000-5000 BP. Initially centered on the Loess Plateau, it expanded throughout the middle Yellow River Basin and into the adjacent North China Plain. The people were egalitarian agriculturalists raising millet, pigs, and some chickens; a diet supplemented by hunting, fishing, and some gathering. A two- to three-tiered settlement hierarchy developed in some areas during the middle to late tradition, with increased signs of conflict. Cemeteries show evidence of community-based ancestor cults, and specialists in divination or shamanic rituals.

Middle-Upper Yellow River Middle Neolithic

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