Survey, Excavation, and Geophysics at Songjiaheba—A Small Bronze Age Site in the Chengdu Plain

Flad, Rowan K.; Horsley, Timothy J.; Guedes, Jade d’Alpoim; He, Kebin; Bennett, Gwen; Chen, Pochan; Li, Shuicheng; Zhanghua, Jiang

doi:10.1353/asi.2013.0006

Cited by 8 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Similarly, rice cultivation has existed in the Chengdu Plain for more than 4,000 years according to archaeological evidence. 70 This is a relatively selfsustaining and stable agricultural pattern, especially for the wet-rice fields and their soil, which can be 'maintained almost indefinitely'. 71 The depopulation of Sichuan led to the collapse and gradual siltation of irrigation channels as well as the desolation of farmlands.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Retreat of the Human: Processes of Rewilding after Warfare in Sichuan, China

Schmitt¹,

Shang²

2023

Environment and History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Decades of violent upheaval during the Late Ming and Early Qing in Sichuan caused the human population to decrease dramatically. Subsequent processes of rewilding reveal the tight connection between humans and their environment as well as the human interpretation of such dramatic changes. First, the irrigation facilities and former agricultural landscape of Sichuan deteriorated along with the decline of the human population. Due to lack of labour, the neglect and ultimate collapse of the Dujiangyan irrigation system in western Sichuan province resulted in rice-paddy agriculture becoming untenable. This led to the farmlands going through a process of rewilding. Then, when tigers proliferated and tiger-attacks became a common occurrence in Sichuan, the status of predator/prey and the activity spaces between humans and tigers were reversed. The tiger attacks were terrifying and interpreted as an example of social failure, representing the tension between human and environment that contributed to the temporary retreat of the human from the Sichuan Basin.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Retreat of the Human: Processes of Rewilding after Warfare in Sichuan, China

Schmitt¹,

Shang²

2023

Environment and History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…These were used in ceremonies that had not been previously seen in the Chengdu Plain. The custom of using turtle shells for divination was probably transmitted from the people around the Middle Yangzi River who had in turn been influenced by the Central Plains (Flad 2008(Flad , 2013. The peoples of the Yangzi River used both turtle carapaces and plastrons and sometimes even fish gills for divination, possibly because of the rich fishery resources especially in the Middle Yangzi River (Flad 2005;Flad and Chen 2013:226-227;Yuan et al 2008).…”

Section: Multicraft Production At Jinshamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent surveys and discoveries found during modern construction projects have uncovered 64 pre-Qin sites, of which 79.6 percent are dated to the Shi'erqiao period. Many of these Shi'erqiao sites were only small villages or hamlets, however (Chengdu Pingyuan 2010;Flad et al 2013;Jiang Z. 2015).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

On Craft Production and the Settlement Pattern of the Jinsha Site Cluster on the Chengdu Plain

Lin¹

2019

Asian Perspectives

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Analysis of settlement pattern and production organization of the Jinsha settlement suggests that it was less strictly organized than the Sanxingdui settlement and that it was inhabited by heterogeneous social groups during the early Bronze Age. Measuring and evaluating the standardization of two types of pottery vessels (i.e., jars with small bases [xiaopingdi guan 小平底罐] and saucers with pointed bottoms [jiandizhan 尖底盞]) reveal that potters employed different patterns for products to be used in different contexts. Vessels are more standardized at loci close to the sacrificial zone (where ritual paraphernalia were buried), while vessels used as burial goods tend to be smaller. Pottery production was loosely organized, ranging between individual and nucleated workshops, and widely distributed across loci both near the sacrificial zone and on the periphery of Jinsha. The sacrificial zone at the center of the settlement apparently created needs that promoted production activities. The presentation of multiple types of production in the Jinsha core, together with religious activities and public buildings, suggests not only multiple chaînes opératoires for objects but also communal activities and entangled social relations. Such gatherings and driving forces enabled different social groups to redress social tensions while promoting consensus. Crafters might have cooperated when necessary, but they were otherwise organized in a flexible manner, maintaining at most a loose network of production.

show abstract

Geoarchaeology in China: Historical Trends and Future Prospects

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Survey, Excavation, and Geophysics at Songjiaheba—A Small Bronze Age Site in the Chengdu Plain

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

The Retreat of the Human: Processes of Rewilding after Warfare in Sichuan, China

The Retreat of the Human: Processes of Rewilding after Warfare in Sichuan, China

On Craft Production and the Settlement Pattern of the Jinsha Site Cluster on the Chengdu Plain

Geoarchaeology in China: Historical Trends and Future Prospects

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About