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A comprehensive account of a pioneering archaeological project in
the province of Shandong that transformed understandings of
regional settlement patterns From 1995 to 2007, researchers from
China and the United States conducted a systematic, full-coverage
regional archaeological survey in southeastern Shandong Province,
China, covering an area of more than 1,400 square kilometers. This
pioneering multiyear international project transformed the
archaeological understanding of regional settlement patterns from
the Neolithic to the Han period in southeastern Shandong. As an
update of the 2012 synthesis published in Chinese, this volume is
the most detailed account of the project in English. The team
discovered many new sites, including the earliest known Neolithic
settlements in the area, and revealed distinctly different regional
settlement patterns in the hinterlands of the two largest late
Neolithic sites, Liangchengzhen and Yaowangcheng. The book includes
field procedures, methods of analysis, and descriptions of major
sites generously illustrated with maps as well as photographs of
key artifacts and archaeological localities. Distributed for the
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Over two thousand years ago, Oaxaca, Mexico, was the site of one of
the New World's earliest episodes of primary state formation and
urbanism, and today it is one of the world's archaeologically
best-studied regions. This volume, which thoroughly revises and
updates the first edition, provides a highly readable yet
comprehensive path to acquaint readers with one of the earliest and
best-known examples of Native American state formation and its
consequences as seen from the perspectives of urbanism, technology,
demography, commerce, households, and religion and ritual. Written
by prominent archaeological researchers who have devoted decades to
Oaxacan research and to the development of suitable social theory,
the book places ancient Oaxaca within the context of the history of
ideas that have addressed the causes and consequences of social
evolutionary change. It also critically evaluates the potential
applicability of more recent thinking about state building grounded
in collective action and related theories.
Over two thousand years ago, Oaxaca, Mexico, was the site of one of
the New World's earliest episodes of primary state formation and
urbanism, and today it is one of the world's archaeologically
best-studied regions. This volume, which thoroughly revises and
updates the first edition, provides a highly readable yet
comprehensive path to acquaint readers with one of the earliest and
best-known examples of Native American state formation and its
consequences as seen from the perspectives of urbanism, technology,
demography, commerce, households, and religion and ritual. Written
by prominent archaeological researchers who have devoted decades to
Oaxacan research and to the development of suitable social theory,
the book places ancient Oaxaca within the context of the history of
ideas that have addressed the causes and consequences of social
evolutionary change. It also critically evaluates the potential
applicability of more recent thinking about state building grounded
in collective action and related theories.
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