Changes in regional settlement patterns and the development of complex societies in southeastern Shandong, China

Underhill, Anne P.; Feinman, Gary M.; Nicholas, Linda M.; Fang, Hui; Luan, Fengshi; Yu, Haiguang; Cai, Fengshu

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2006.11.002

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“…The empirical basis for this account, however, is almost entirely top-down, derived from texts, leaving unaccounted for the perspective and presence of more than 90% of the population. In this section, we cannot give voice to that majority, but we can gain insights into how these massive big-scale transitions interfaced with their lives on the ground for at least one local region, coastal Shandong, that has been systematically investigated through regional archaeological settlement pattern surveys (16)(17)(18).…”

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“…Pottery, the most abundant artifact recovered, provides a basic means for dating the surface remnants of past human landscape use and therefore ancient settlement patterns across time. Other visible architectural and archaeological features, such as tomb monuments, platforms, ancient walls, and exposed pits, also are recorded systematically (16,18).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…3000 B.C.) of the Neolithic period (16,18). Once the area was settled, however, the population grew rapidly, and by the Early Longshan period (ca.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…to the Qin unification. Then, to assess the ways in which political edicts and governance practices played out for lives on the ground, we review the findings from one region of China (the coast of Shandong Province), eventually conquered and integrated by the Qin-Han, where we are conducting a systemic regional archaeological settlement pattern survey (16)(17)(18). Through this multiscalar investigation, we evaluate both shifting strategies of governance and the ways that they were negotiated and received in one local context.…”

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Imperial expansion, public investment, and the long path of history: China’s initial political unification and its aftermath

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Nicholas

2015

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The Neolithic (ca. 8000-1900 B.C.) underpinnings of early Chinese civilization had diverse geographic and cultural foundations in distinct traditions, ways of life, subsistence regimes, and modes of leadership. The subsequent Bronze Age (ca. 1900-221 B.C.) was characterized by increasing political consolidation, expansion, and heightened interaction, culminating in an era of a smaller number of warring states. During the third century B.C., the Qin Dynasty first politically unified this fractious landscape, across an area that covers much of what is now China, and rapidly instituted a series of infrastructural investments and other unifying measures, many of which were maintained and amplified during the subsequent Han Dynasty. Here, we examine this historical sequence at both the national and macroscale and more deeply for a small region on the coast of the Shandong Province, where we have conducted several decades of archaeological research. At both scales, we examine apparent shifts in the governance of local diversity and some of the implications both during Qin-Han times and for the longer durée.China | empire | archaeological settlement patterns | political unification

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Section: Integrating Diversity: a Microscale Focus From Coastal Shandongmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Integrating Diversity: a Microscale Focus From Coastal Shandongmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3000 B.C.) of the Neolithic period (16,18). Once the area was settled, however, the population grew rapidly, and by the Early Longshan period (ca.…”

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Imperial expansion, public investment, and the long path of history: China’s initial political unification and its aftermath

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2015

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“…There are no regional archaeological surveys of Gansu or Xinjiang, as there are for Henan and Shandong (e.g. Liu 2004;Underhill et al 2008) and those site surveys that have been published focus on grave sites and their inclusions, and are not usually independently dated. There are few detailed material studies from non-grave sites and few independent chronologies to put the region into a wider East Asian prehistory context.…”

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