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Salt production and social hierarchy in ancient China : an archaeological investigation of specialization in China's Three Gorges
- Title
- Salt production and social hierarchy in ancient China : an archaeological investigation of specialization in China's Three Gorges / Rowan K. Flad.
- Author
- Flad, Rowan K.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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- Description
- xxv, 285 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--Provided by publisher.
- "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"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Social structure > China > Zhongba Site
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
- Zhongba Site (China)
- Salt industry and trade > China > Zhongba Site
- Neolithic period > China > Zhongba Site
- Antiquities, Prehistoric > China > Zhongba Site
- Salt mines and mining, Prehistoric > China > Zhongba Site
- Excavations (Archaeology) > China > Zhongba Site
- Bronze age > China > Zhongba Site
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The organization of ancient salt production in Sichuan; 3. Ancient salt production in Sichuan; 4. The Zhongba site; 5. Ceramic evidence; 6. Parameters of production according to ceramics; 7. Features and spatiality; 8. Animal remains and divination; 9. Conclusions and Implications; Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-1416
- ISBN
- 9781107009417 (hardback)
- 1107009413 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011001955
- OCLC
- YBP 2011001955
- Author
- Flad, Rowan K.
- Title
- Salt production and social hierarchy in ancient China : an archaeological investigation of specialization in China's Three Gorges / Rowan K. Flad.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-1416