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Zhukaigou, steppe culture and the rise of Chinese civilization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Katheryn M. Linduff*
Affiliation:
Department of Art History, Department of Anthropology, 104 Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260, USA

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Zhukaigou, a late prehistoric site in Inner Mongolia, stands in an important zone, the region where the steppe cultures meet the settled farming civilization of China. As elsewhere across the Asian steppes, that zone where each tradition meets its other is observed both from its archaeology and from such clues as we have to ancient perceptions of significant others.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995 

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