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Piecing Together Sha Po - Archaeological Investigations and Landscape Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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Piecing Together Sha Po - Archaeological Investigations and Landscape Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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Hong Kong boasts a number of rich archaeological sites behind sandy
bays. Among these backbeaches is Sha Po on Lamma Island, a site
which has long captured the attention of archaeologists. However,
until now no comprehensive study of the area has ever been
published. Piecing Together Sha Po presents the first sustained
analysis, framed in terms of a multi-period social landscape, of
the varieties of human activity in Sha Po spanning more than 6,000
years. Synthesizing decades of earlier fieldwork together with Atha
and Yip's own extensive excavations conducted in 2008-2010, the
discoveries collectively enabled the authors to reconstruct the
society in Sha Po in different historical periods. The artifacts
unearthed from the site-some of them unique to the region-reveal a
vibrant past which saw the inhabitants of Sha Po interacting with
the environment in diverse ways. Evidence showing the mastery of
quartz ornament manufacture and metallurgy in the Bronze Age
suggests increasing craft specialization and the rise of a more
complex, competitive society. Later on, during the Six
Dynasties-Tang period, Sha Po turned into a center in the region's
imperially controlled kiln-based salt industry. Closer to our time,
in the nineteenth century the farming and fishing communities in
Sha Po became important suppliers of food and fuel to urban Hong
Kong. Ultimately, this ground-breaking work tells a compelling
story about human beings' ceaseless reinvention of their lives
through the lens of one special archaeological site.
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