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Bronze Age Subsistence Change at Regional and Microscopic Scales in Northeast China

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ID18994722
AuthorsJames T Williams (corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume56
Issue2
Pages166-190
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-8435 • E-ISSN: 1535-8283
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/asi.2017.0007
OpenAlexW2765767316
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited26

This article investigates Late Bronze Age mobile pastoralism in Northeast China. Analysis of the use-wear patterns provides direct evidence speaking to the subsistence economies during the Bronze Age. The patterns of use-wear are compared to the settlement patterning and environmental contexts to test proposed theories about whether and how subsistence change takes place. The results indicate continuity in mixed animal and plant based economies in both the Early and Late Bronze Age despite changes in climate and population. The relative intensity of economic practice is guided by the environmental context, but this is detected only at the sub-regional level

Agriculture · Archaeology · Bronze Age · China · Climate change · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Geography · Livestock · Pastoralism · Population · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Subsistence economy · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Geology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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