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Pottery Production, Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yuanqu Basin, North-Central China
Xiangming Dai
This work investigates the development of social complexity and the changes of modes of pottery production from the Neolithic to early Bronze Age in the Yuanqu Basin, north-central China. The research focuses on the development of specialised pottery production in different societies. Through settlement pattern studies, the author examines the social changes during eight cultural periods from the Neolithic to the early Bronze Age (ca. 6200-1300 B.C.). The settlement analyses address 46 sites, including seven excavated sites in the Yuanqu Basin. This study argues that the initial and low-level specialisation might occur in the simple and non-stratified society, and the dramatic change in the mode of pottery production or the degree of specialisation is not necessarily related to the emergence and development of chiefdom-level societies, but rather associated with the formation of state-level societies, as demonstrated by the Yuanqu case.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Abstract
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Acknowledgements
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Chapter One: Introduction
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Chapter Two: Social Evolution and Settlement Patterns: A Discussion of Theories and Methods
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Chapter Three: Settlement Patterns and Social Complexity in the Yuanqu Basin
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Chapter Four: Modelling Pottery Production: Theories, Methods, and Data
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Chapter Five: Pottery Production in a Tribal-level Society: A Case Study of the Early Yangshao Period at the Dongguan Site
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Chapter Six: Pottery Production in a Chiefdom-level Society: A Case Study of the Miaodigou II Period at the Dongguan Site
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Chapter Seven: Pottery Production in a State-level Society: A Case Study of the Erlitou & Erligang Period at the Nanguan Site
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Chapter Eight: Conclusions
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Appendix 1
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Appendix 2
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Appendix 3
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Appendix 4
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Appendix 5
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Appendix 6
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Appendix 7
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Appendix 8
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Bibliography
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Published: 2006
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781841719399 (paperback)
- 9781407329550 (ebook)
BAR Number: S1502