The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States (review)
In: China review international: a journal of reviews of scholarly literature in Chinese studies, Volume 13, Issue 1, p. 210-214
ISSN: 1527-9367
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In: China review international: a journal of reviews of scholarly literature in Chinese studies, Volume 13, Issue 1, p. 210-214
ISSN: 1527-9367
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 87, Issue 4, p. 891-893
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 86, Issue 1, p. 105-112
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 85, Issue 3, p. 729-730
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology. University of Michigan 8
In: Prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca Vol. 4
The Hongshan societies of northeastern China are among East Asia's earliest complex societies. They have been known largely from elaborate burials with carved jades in ceremonial platforms. The most monumental remains are concentrated in a "core zone" in western Liaoning province. Residential remains are less well known and most investigations of them have been in peripheral regions outside the core zone. Recent regional settlement pattern research around the well known ceremonial site of Dongshanzui has begun to document the communities that built and used Hongshan core zone monuments and to assess their developmental dynamics. The core zone, like the Hongshan periphery, appears to have been organized into a series of small chiefly districts within which ceremonial activities were important integrative forces. Their estimated populations of less than 1,000 are not much larger than those of districts in the periphery, and the evidence does not suggest that these districts were integrated into any larger political entity. The greater elaboration of core zone monumental architecture is thus not attributable to demographically larger communities or to larger-scale political integration. Future research should focus on documenting the organization of statuses and economic activities within these core zone communities to assess potential differences from peripheral communities in these regards.
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In: Latin American Monograph and Document Series, No. 13
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In: Current anthropology, Volume 24, Issue 4, p. 413-441
ISSN: 1537-5382