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Recent archaeometric research on ‘the origins of Chinese civilisation’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Yuan Jing  and
Rod Campbell
Yuan Jing
Affiliation:
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, 15 East 84th Street, New York, NY, 10028, USA (Email: [email protected])
Rod Campbell
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 27 Wangfujing Street, Beijing, 100710, P. R. China (Email: [email protected])
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Abstract

We are very pleased to present a summary account of the People's Republic of China's project on the Origins of Chinese Civilization. It has focused on Late Neolithic and early Bronze Age sites of the Central Plains – the cultural heartland of the first three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou. Particularly notable is the emphasis of methodology which was driven almost entirely by the archaeological sciences.

Keywords

ChinaLate NeolithicBronze Agepalaeoecologypalaeobotanyarchaeozoologyceramicslithicsjadebronze-castingDNAstable isotope analysis
Type
Research
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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 319 , March 2009 , pp. 96 - 109
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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