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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453092203321

Autore

Flad Rowan K.

Titolo

Ancient Central China : centers and peripheries along the Yangzi River / / Rowan K. Flad, Pochan Chen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23387-9

1-139-85367-8

1-139-84459-8

1-139-83985-3

1-107-25533-3

1-139-03485-5

1-139-84223-4

1-139-84104-1

1-283-94349-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 412 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Case studies in early societies

Disciplina

931

Soggetti

Neolithic period - China - Yangtze River Region

Bronze age - China - Yangtze River Region

Antiquities, Prehistoric - China - Yangtze River Region

Yangtze River Region (China) Antiquities

Yangtze River Region (China) Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Setting the stage -- pt. II. Political and cultural topographies -- pt. III. Topographies of economic activity and ritual.

Sommario/riassunto

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.