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Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China - An Archaeological Investigation of Specialization in China's Three Gorges (Paperback)
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Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China - An Archaeological Investigation of Specialization in China's Three Gorges (Paperback)
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This book examines the organization of specialized salt production
at Zhongba, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the
Three Gorges of China's Yangzi River valley. Rowan K. Flad
demonstrates that salt production emerged in the second millennium
BCE and developed into a large-scale, intense activity. As the
intensity of this activity increased during the early Bronze Age,
production became more coordinated, perhaps by an emergent elite
who appear to have supported their position of authority by means
of divination and the control of ritual knowledge. This study
explores evidence of these changes in ceramics, the layout of space
at the site and animal remains. It synthesizes the data retrieved
from years of excavation, showing not only the evolution of
production methods, but also the emergence of social hierarchy in
the Three Gorges region over two millennia.
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