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Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Southwestern China
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In this paper, the development of bronze metallurgy in southwestern China parallels trends observed among Neolithic communities in Southeast Asia, and they propose that sociopolitical complexity emerged as part of a multiregional phenomenon that had its beginning with the formalization of trade networks during the Neolithic period.Abstract:
Archaeology of ancient China’s periphery has traditionally been examined through the historiographic lens of Chinese textual sources. Social developments in the periphery are often explained in relation to accounts of migration from “core” regions of China. Setting conventional paradigms and textual sources aside, this article examines prehistoric developments in southwestern China in conjunction with broader trends in Southeast Asia. This comparative approach reveals that the development of bronze metallurgy in southwestern China parallels trends observed among Neolithic communities in Southeast Asia. Using recent data and a reassessment of radiocarbon dates for the Bronze Age, I propose that sociopolitical complexity emerged in southwestern China as part of a multiregional phenomenon that had its beginning with the formalization of trade networks during the Neolithic period.read more
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The Archaeology of Early China: From Prehistory to the Han Dynasty
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an extended time period from the earliest peopling of China to the unification of the Chinese Empire some two thousand years ago, focusing on the emergence of agricultural communities and the establishment of a sedentary way of life.
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Adaptation and Invention during the Spread of Agriculture to Southwest China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of research into how agricultural strategies were modified during the spread of agriculture into southwest China by incorporating advances from the fields of plant biology and ecological niche modeling into archaeological research.
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Early agriculture at the crossroads of China and Southeast Asia: Archaeobotanical evidence and radiocarbon dates from Baiyangcun, Yunnan
Rita Dal Martello,Rui Min,Chris J. Stevens,Charles Higham,Thomas Higham,Ling Qin,Dorian Q. Fuller +6 more
TL;DR: Archaeobotanical results from systematic flotation at what is presently the earliest Neolithic site with hard evidence for crop cultivation in the Southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan provide secure evidence for the spread of Chinese Neolithic crops to Yunnan, and provide new evidence for reconstructing possible sources of cereal agriculture in mainland Southeast Asia.
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The Earliest States in China: A Long-term Trajectory Approach
Gideon Shelach,Yitzhak Jaffe +1 more
TL;DR: Based on an analysis of the long-term trajectory, the authors identified, in north China, two phases of rapid transformations: the first, starting around 2500 BC, when several unstable regional states evolved and declined, and the second, around 1600 BC when an intra-regional state, usually identified with the historical Shang, rapidly evolved.
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Networks of Power in Archaeology
TL;DR: One way of modeling these relations is to see them as organized within social networks through which the resources needed to exert power in all its forms flow differentially as discussed by the authors, and two approaches to describing these interactions and understanding their political implications are particularly salient in the literature.
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