Rowan K. Flad

Ancient Central China (eBook, ePUB)

Centers and Peripheries along the Yangzi River

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139853675
• Artikelnr.: 37860588

Autorenporträt

Rowan K. Flad is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He has received grants from the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Luce Foundation, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation and the American Philosophical Foundation, among others. He has been a traveling lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America and has published extensively on archaeology in China in many edited volumes and journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Current Anthropology, The Holocene, Antiquity, the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, the Journal of Field Archaeology, Asian Perspectives, the Journal of East Asian Archaeology, the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Kaogu and Nanfang Minzu Kaogu. He co-edited a book on specialization in the series Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, and is the author of Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China: An Archaeological Investigation of Specialization in China's Three Gorges, published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: centers and peripheries in the ancient Yangzi River
Valley; Part I. Setting the Stage: 2. The environment of Central China; 3.
Historiography and the topography of research: a history of archaeology in
Central China; Part II. Political and Cultural Topographies: 4. The Sichuan
Basin: Shu and its predecessors; 5. The Middle Yangzi: the archaeology and
history of Chu and its predecessors; 6. Periphery at the center: the Ba and
archaeological cultures in the Three Gorges; Part III. Topographies of
Economic Activity and Ritual: 7. Economic topographies: production,
exchange, and the integrating role of salt; 8. Ritual topographies:
sacrifice and divination; 9. Ritual topographies: burials and social
identity; 10. Conclusion: landscapes of interaction and the interaction of
landscapes.