[CURRENT ISSUES IN THE PLEISTOCENE PEOPLING OF CONTINENTAL ASIA] Land use and settlement patterns in the mountain belt of southern Siberia

Rybin, Eugeny P.

doi:10.7152/bippa.v25i0.11917

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“…13). Although traces of Palaeolithic anthropogenic activities have been found in the Altai Mountains (Chlachula 2001;Rybin 2005), no remains dating to that early period were identified in the AOI. The imprint those early hunter gatherer societies left on the landscape seems to have been minimal and transient.…”

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Quantifying Ritual Funerary Activity of the Late Prehistoric Southern Kanas Region (Xinjiang, China)

Caspari¹

2020

Asian Perspectives

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Identifying peaks in anthropogenic activity in a landscape is an important starting point for understanding past social dynamics in the longue durée. Through intensive surveys and remote sensing surveys of the Heiliutan Basin (Heiliutan Dacaoyuan 黑流滩大草原) in the southern Kanas Region (Kanasi 喀纳斯), Xinjiang, China, a high-resolution dataset for over 4000 years of material culture is established. The complete coverage of the area of interest allows for the quantification of ritual funerary activity based on the number of constructed monuments per century. The data show that the intensity of ritual funerary activity was very low and only left marginal traces in the landscape from the Eneolithic Age to the Late Bronze Age. During the Early Iron Age (ca. 850-200 B.C.E.), the basin became a center for construction of burials for social elites of nomadic tribes and the area was rapidly transformed into a landscape of the dead. The Late Iron Age (starting ≈200 B.C.E.) saw a decline of ritual funerary activities in the basin as it became an unimportant side scene to the cultural developments of the wider region.

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Quantifying Ritual Funerary Activity of the Late Prehistoric Southern Kanas Region (Xinjiang, China)

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2020

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[CURRENT ISSUES IN THE PLEISTOCENE PEOPLING OF CONTINENTAL ASIA] Land use and settlement patterns in the mountain belt of southern Siberia

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Quantifying Ritual Funerary Activity of the Late Prehistoric Southern Kanas Region (Xinjiang, China)

Quantifying Ritual Funerary Activity of the Late Prehistoric Southern Kanas Region (Xinjiang, China)

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