Journal article
China's major Late Neolithic centres and the rise of Erlitou
- Abstract:
- Recent archaeological survey and excavation in China have demonstrated that large sites of the late fourth and third millennia BC were situated not on the Central Plains - where the later dynastic centres were located - but along the Yangtze and lower Yellow River Basins. Their decline in the late third and second millennia BC coincided with the growth of sites to the north of the Central Plains. Evidence for settlement size and a new chronology constructed from radiocarbon dates emphasise discontinuities in the geographic distribution of settlements, combined with continuity in cultural practices of ritual feasts and the use of symbolic jades.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.15184/aqy.2019.63
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Antiquity More from this journal
- Volume:
- 93
- Issue:
- 369
- Pages:
- 588-603
- Publication date:
- 2019-06-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-03-01
- DOI:
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1745-1744
- ISSN:
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0003-598X
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1020620
- Local pid:
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pubs:1020620
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2020-05-01
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- Antiquity Publications Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2019
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The publisher's version is available online
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