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Description: Principal pottery types of the four clusters of P'ei-li-kang and related cultures

TitlePrincipal pottery types of the four clusters of P'ei-li-kang and related cultures

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SubjectsPottery, PrehistoricPaleolithic periodPrehistoric peoples--ChinaArchaeology--China

Status1: P'ei-li-kang cluster, 2: Tz'u-shan cluster, 3: Wei-shui cluster; 4: Li-chia-ts'un cluster

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2. The Early Farmers (8000–5000 B.C.)

Kwang-chih Chang

The Archaeology of Ancient China

~More than 80 percent of the contemporary Chinese are farmers, and the Chinese way of life as we know it since the dawn of history is inconceivable without agriculture. Archaeological advances in the last several decades have now pushed the beginning of agriculture in China very close to the beginning of the Holocene, the geological modern period. That means that, of...

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Kwang-chih Chang

PublisherYale University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00207.003

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Chapter subject tags:Prehistoric peoples--ChinaTools, PrehistoricExcavations (Archaeology)--ChinaChina--Civilization

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