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Author Flad, Rowan K.

Title Ancient Central China / Rowan K. Flad, Pochan Chen
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Case studies in early societies
Case studies in early societies.
Contents pt. I. Setting the stage -- pt. II. Political and cultural topographies -- pt. III. Topographies of economic activity and ritual
Summary "Ancient Central China provides an up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone. It focuses on the Late Neolithic (late third millennium BC) through the end of the Bronze Age (late first millennium BC) and considers regional and interregional cultural relationships in light of anthropological models of landscape. Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen show that centers and peripheries of political, economic, and ritual activities were not coincident, and that politically peripheral regions such as the Three Gorges were crucial hubs in interregional economic networks, particularly related to prehistoric salt production. The book provides detailed discussions of recent archaeological discoveries and data from the Chengdu Plain, Three Gorges, and Hubei to illustrate how these various components of regional landscape were configured across Central China"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Neolithic period -- China -- Yangtze River Region
Bronze age -- China -- Yangtze River Region
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- China -- Yangtze River Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Antiquities
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Bronze age
Civilization
Neolithic period
SUBJECT Yangtze River Region (China) -- Antiquities
Yangtze River Region (China) -- Civilization
Subject China -- Yangtze River Region
Form Electronic book
Author Chen, Pochan, 1973-
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