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"This book examines the organization of specialized salt production at Zhongba, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Three Gorges of China's Yangzi River valley"-- "This book examines the organization of specialized salt production at Zhongba, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Three Gorges of China's Yangzi River valley. Rowan K. Flad demonstrates that salt production emerged in the second millennium BCE and developed into a large-scale, intense activity. As the intensity of this activity increased during the early Bronze Age, production became more coordinated, perhaps by an emergent elite who appear to have supported their position of authority by means of divination and the control of ritual knowledge. This study explores evidence of these changes in ceramics, the layout of space at the site, and animal remains. It synthesizes the data retrieved from years of excavation, showing not only the evolution of production methods, but also the emergence of social hierarchy in the Three Gorges region over two millennia"--
Neolithic period --- Bronze age --- Salt industry and trade --- Salt mines and mining, Prehistoric --- Social structure --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric antiquities --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistory --- Prehistoric peoples --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Prehistoric salt mines and mining --- Nonmetallic minerals industry --- Civilization --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Zhongba Site (China) --- China --- Antiquities --- Social Sciences --- Archeology
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"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"--
Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Bronze Age --- Neolithic period --- S04/0440 --- S04/0500 --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Civilization --- Prehistoric antiquities --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistory --- Prehistoric peoples --- China: History--Gazetteers: Central provinces --- China: History--Ancient (Pre-Han and Han, incl. Sima Qian) --- Yangtze River Region (China) --- Antiquities. --- Civilization. --- Bronze age --- Social Sciences --- Archeology
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Bronze age --- Yangtze River --- China --- Japan
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