Title Liangzhu's story of stone : engineering and tools / Xiang Ji, Ningyuan Wang, Chuanwan Dong, Yida Luo

Published Singapore : Springer ; [Hangzhou] : Zhejiang University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (x, 99 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) Series Liangzhu civilization Liangzhu wen ming cong shu Contents Intro -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Liangzhu and Five Thousand Years of Chinese Civilization -- Contents -- 1 Why Liangzhu "City"? -- 1.1 Geography -- 1.2 The Discovery of Liangzhu Ancient City -- 1.3 Layout and Structure -- 1.3.1 The Outer City -- 1.3.2 City Wall -- 1.3.3 The Palace Zone -- 1.3.4 Burial Zones -- 1.3.5 Storage Area -- 1.3.6 The Ancient River Passage at Zhongjiagang -- 1.3.7 Workshop Areas -- 1.3.8 Other Platforms -- 2 The Stone-Paving Story -- 2.1 Stone-Paving Style -- 2.2 Rock Types and Combinations -- 2.3 The Stone-Layering Production Site 3 Researching Work Volume-And a Model Experiment -- 3.1 How the Ancients Shipped Rock -- 3.2 How Long to Build the Wall? -- 4 Patterns of Stone Tools -- 4.1 A Society Forged by Stone -- 4.1.1 Farming Tools -- 4.1.2 Hunting and Fishing Tools -- 4.1.3 Processing Tools -- 4.1.4 Mingqi -- 4.1.5 Stone Tools of Unknown Functions -- 4.2 Working with the Available Materials -- 4.2.1 Farming Tools -- 4.2.2 Fishing and Hunting Tools -- 4.2.3 Processing Tools -- 4.2.4 Mingqi -- 4.3 The Wisdom of Liangzhu Peoples -- 5 Where to Look for Our Stone Tools and Quarries? 5.1 A Geological Overview of the C-Shaped Region -- 5.2 Resources, Quarries -- 5.3 The Liangzhu Habitation Sphere -- 6 To Be Continued -- 6.1 An Expanded Scope -- 6.2 The Stone from Another Hill -- 6.3 Searching for the Jade Spirit of Liangzhu -- Postscript Summary This book explains how the walls of Liangzhu City were made from bedding stones and mud, with the total area of bedding stones covering roughly 290,000 square meters. Based on ongoing research and studies, the book tells the story of how these stones were collected from the surrounding mountains and how their mining and use required massive manpower and material resources, indicating what a tremendous undertaking the construction of Liangzhu City was. The book also shares insights into the process of discovering and researching the city wall, as well as the stoneware at the Liangzhu historical site complex Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 18, 2022) Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- China -- Pingyao City walls -- China -- Pingyao Antiquities City walls Excavations (Archaeology) SUBJECT Liangzhu (Extinct city) Pingyao (China) -- Antiquities Subject China -- Pingyao Form Electronic book Author Wang, Ningyuan, author Dong, Chuanwan, author Luo, Yida, author ISBN 9789811956300 9811956308

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