Zhouyong Sun
Biographic Data
| ID | 3642183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhouyong Sun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhouyong |
| FAMILY NAME | Sun |
| SIGNATURE | SUN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Archaeology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Bast fiber production and consumption on the 5th-millennium-BP north Loess Plateau, China
The Establishment and Working Practices of Chinese Archaeological Institutions from the 1920s to the Present
The 1921 excavation at Yangshao, Henan Province, is generally regarded as the starting point of modern Chinese archaeology. Since then, among the humanities and social sciences, archaeology has become one of the fastest-growing disciplines in China. According to official statistics, as of September 2022, China had 91 archaeological units with the remit to excavate, including seven national-level archaeological institutions, 32 provincial-level ar…
A tale of two cities: Isotopic evidence highlights two distinct millet-based subsistence strategies behind early urban China's Shimao and Erlitou sites
Rice cultivation and its environmental and social contexts at the Shimao site, Northwest China
Craft Specialization in the Highland Longshan Society: Perspective from the Bone Needle Workshop on the Central Mound at the Shimao Site, Shaanxi, China
The emergence of Shimao, a proto-urban center at the contact zone between agropastoral communities of the Loess Plateau and herders/hunter-gatherers of Monogolian Plateau, offers critical insights into the economic activities during the transition to the Bronze Age in continental East Asia. Unprecedented in scale in prehistoric China, the bone needle workshop at the central mound was a prelude to the specialized, industrial-scale bone production …
New archaeobotanical evidence for Tolai hare (Lepus tolai) millets-consumption on the Loess Plateau of China
Ceramic raptors unearthed at the site of Shimao (2300–1800 BCE) in northern China: Production and use
Use of the potter's wheel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China
Annual Bibliography
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Shimao culture: Naming, distribution, and chronology
By synthesizing previous studies and the most updated archaeological data by typical stratigraphic contexts and assemblages, Hetao region cultural remains represented by li -tripods with double-handles should be considered part of the Shimao culture. With its core distribution area spanning from northern Shaanxi to central-northern Shanxi to central-southern Inner Mongolia, the development of Shimao culture can be divided into three phases: early…
Feeding Shimao: Archaeobotanical and Isotopic Investigation into Early Urbanism (4200-3000 BP) on the Northern Loess Plateau, China
Renewed excavations at Shimao, the largest stone walled urban site in northern China dating to around 4200–3700 BP, have focused on Shimao’s unusual architecture and material culture, but there remains much to be known about the subsistence system and agricultural strategies the inhabitants employed around this site. In this paper we provide new archaeobotanical and isotopic evidence for the agricultural systems and strategies that supported Shim…
Proposing a toast' from the first urban center in the north Loess Plateau, China: Alcoholic beverages at Shimao
Ancient genomes from northern China suggest links between subsistence changes and human migration
Northern China harbored the world’s earliest complex societies based on millet farming, in two major centers in the Yellow (YR) and West Liao (WLR) River basins. Until now, their genetic histories have remained largely unknown. Here we present 55 ancient genomes dating to 7500-1700 BP from the YR, WLR, and Amur River (AR) regions. Contrary to the genetic stability in the AR, the YR and WLR genetic profiles substantially changed over time. The YR …
Reconstruction of the Shimao citadel gate: Planning and construction of Huangchengtai gate during the 2nd millennium BCE, China
Early commensal interaction between humans and hares in Neolithic northern China
Human influence on ecological niches can drive rapid changes in the diet, behaviour and evolutionary trajectories of small mammals. Archaeological evidence from the Late Neolithic Loess Plateau of northern China suggests that the expansion of millet cultivation created new selective pressures, attracting small mammals to fields and settlements. Here, the authors present direct evidence for commensal behaviour in desert hares (Lepus capensis), dat…
Early Commensal Interaction Between Humans and Hares in Neolithic Northern China-Corrigendum
The great cultural divergence and environmental background of Northern Shaanxi and its adjacent regions during the late Neolithic
North-south patterning of millet agriculture on the Loess Plateau: Late Neolithic adaptations to water stress, NW China
Water availability and climatic conditions profoundly control agricultural systems in different spatial-temporal conditions. Using new results of archaeobotanical research on the north Loess Plateau and extant macro-botanical data recovered from the eastern part of the north-south Loess Plateau, we investigated the ancient cropping patterns of different agrarian communities living in the marginal area of the East Asian monsoonal climatic zone. It…
When peripheries were centres: A preliminary study of the Shimao-centred polity in the loess highland, China
Chinese civilisation has long been assumed to have developed in the Central Plains in the mid to late second millennium BC. Recent archaeological discoveries at the Bronze Age site of Shimao, however, fundamentally challenge traditional understanding of ‘peripheries’ and ‘centres’, and the emergence of Chinese civilisation. This research reveals that by 2000 BC, the loess highland was home to a complex society representing the political and econo…
A probable case of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease in Warring States-era China
The East Gate of Shimao: An architectural interpretation
The first Neolithic urban center on China's north Loess Plateau: The rise and fall of Shimao
Craft Production in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771BC): A case study of a jue-earrings workshop at the predynastic capital site, Zhouyuan, China: A case study of a jue-earrings workshop at the pred…
This work investigates the craft production system in the Western Zhou (China), through a case study of a 'jue'-earrings workshop at Qijia in the predynastic capital site of Zhouyuan, excavated in 2002-2003. Conclusions are drawn from several lines of evidence, including spatial relationships of material remains in archaeological context, various stages of 'jue' production wasters, the author's experimental replication of 'jue' manufacture, and w…
Reconstructing Manufacturing Technology and Technological Organisation at the Qijia Jue Earring Workshop in Western Zhou (1046-771 Bc) China
This paper discusses the pattern of Qijia jue production in the Western Zhou dynasty at the predynastic capital site of Zhouyuan, from the aspects of manufacturing technology and technological organisation. The Qijia workshop exemplifies the use of natural resources in the local environment, in an operation based on principles of production efficiency, from raw material procurement to final manufacture. The reconstruction of manufacturing technol…
The first Neolithic urban center on China's north Loess Plateau: The rise and fall of Shimao
North-south patterning of millet agriculture on the Loess Plateau: Late Neolithic adaptations to water stress, NW China
Water availability and climatic conditions profoundly control agricultural systems in different spatial-temporal conditions. Using new results of archaeobotanical research on the north Loess Plateau and extant macro-botanical data recovered from the eastern part of the north-south Loess Plateau, we investigated the ancient cropping patterns of different agrarian communities living in the marginal area of the East Asian monsoonal climatic zone. It…
When peripheries were centres: A preliminary study of the Shimao-centred polity in the loess highland, China
Chinese civilisation has long been assumed to have developed in the Central Plains in the mid to late second millennium BC. Recent archaeological discoveries at the Bronze Age site of Shimao, however, fundamentally challenge traditional understanding of ‘peripheries’ and ‘centres’, and the emergence of Chinese civilisation. This research reveals that by 2000 BC, the loess highland was home to a complex society representing the political and econo…
Feeding Shimao: Archaeobotanical and Isotopic Investigation into Early Urbanism (4200-3000 BP) on the Northern Loess Plateau, China
Renewed excavations at Shimao, the largest stone walled urban site in northern China dating to around 4200–3700 BP, have focused on Shimao’s unusual architecture and material culture, but there remains much to be known about the subsistence system and agricultural strategies the inhabitants employed around this site. In this paper we provide new archaeobotanical and isotopic evidence for the agricultural systems and strategies that supported Shim…
Proposing a toast' from the first urban center in the north Loess Plateau, China: Alcoholic beverages at Shimao
The East Gate of Shimao: An architectural interpretation
Early commensal interaction between humans and hares in Neolithic northern China
Human influence on ecological niches can drive rapid changes in the diet, behaviour and evolutionary trajectories of small mammals. Archaeological evidence from the Late Neolithic Loess Plateau of northern China suggests that the expansion of millet cultivation created new selective pressures, attracting small mammals to fields and settlements. Here, the authors present direct evidence for commensal behaviour in desert hares (Lepus capensis), dat…
Rice cultivation and its environmental and social contexts at the Shimao site, Northwest China
Reconstruction of the Shimao citadel gate: Planning and construction of Huangchengtai gate during the 2nd millennium BCE, China
The great cultural divergence and environmental background of Northern Shaanxi and its adjacent regions during the late Neolithic
A tale of two cities: Isotopic evidence highlights two distinct millet-based subsistence strategies behind early urban China's Shimao and Erlitou sites
Reconstructing Manufacturing Technology and Technological Organisation at the Qijia Jue Earring Workshop in Western Zhou (1046-771 Bc) China
This paper discusses the pattern of Qijia jue production in the Western Zhou dynasty at the predynastic capital site of Zhouyuan, from the aspects of manufacturing technology and technological organisation. The Qijia workshop exemplifies the use of natural resources in the local environment, in an operation based on principles of production efficiency, from raw material procurement to final manufacture. The reconstruction of manufacturing technol…
Craft Production in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771BC): A case study of a jue-earrings workshop at the predynastic capital site, Zhouyuan, China: A case study of a jue-earrings workshop at the pred…
This work investigates the craft production system in the Western Zhou (China), through a case study of a 'jue'-earrings workshop at Qijia in the predynastic capital site of Zhouyuan, excavated in 2002-2003. Conclusions are drawn from several lines of evidence, including spatial relationships of material remains in archaeological context, various stages of 'jue' production wasters, the author's experimental replication of 'jue' manufacture, and w…
A probable case of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease in Warring States-era China
The East Gate of Shimao: An architectural interpretation
The first Neolithic urban center on China's north Loess Plateau: The rise and fall of Shimao
North-south patterning of millet agriculture on the Loess Plateau: Late Neolithic adaptations to water stress, NW China
Water availability and climatic conditions profoundly control agricultural systems in different spatial-temporal conditions. Using new results of archaeobotanical research on the north Loess Plateau and extant macro-botanical data recovered from the eastern part of the north-south Loess Plateau, we investigated the ancient cropping patterns of different agrarian communities living in the marginal area of the East Asian monsoonal climatic zone. It…
When peripheries were centres: A preliminary study of the Shimao-centred polity in the loess highland, China
Chinese civilisation has long been assumed to have developed in the Central Plains in the mid to late second millennium BC. Recent archaeological discoveries at the Bronze Age site of Shimao, however, fundamentally challenge traditional understanding of ‘peripheries’ and ‘centres’, and the emergence of Chinese civilisation. This research reveals that by 2000 BC, the loess highland was home to a complex society representing the political and econo…
The great cultural divergence and environmental background of Northern Shaanxi and its adjacent regions during the late Neolithic
Ancient genomes from northern China suggest links between subsistence changes and human migration
Northern China harbored the world’s earliest complex societies based on millet farming, in two major centers in the Yellow (YR) and West Liao (WLR) River basins. Until now, their genetic histories have remained largely unknown. Here we present 55 ancient genomes dating to 7500-1700 BP from the YR, WLR, and Amur River (AR) regions. Contrary to the genetic stability in the AR, the YR and WLR genetic profiles substantially changed over time. The YR …
Reconstruction of the Shimao citadel gate: Planning and construction of Huangchengtai gate during the 2nd millennium BCE, China
Early commensal interaction between humans and hares in Neolithic northern China
Human influence on ecological niches can drive rapid changes in the diet, behaviour and evolutionary trajectories of small mammals. Archaeological evidence from the Late Neolithic Loess Plateau of northern China suggests that the expansion of millet cultivation created new selective pressures, attracting small mammals to fields and settlements. Here, the authors present direct evidence for commensal behaviour in desert hares (Lepus capensis), dat…
Early Commensal Interaction Between Humans and Hares in Neolithic Northern China-Corrigendum
Shimao culture: Naming, distribution, and chronology
By synthesizing previous studies and the most updated archaeological data by typical stratigraphic contexts and assemblages, Hetao region cultural remains represented by li -tripods with double-handles should be considered part of the Shimao culture. With its core distribution area spanning from northern Shaanxi to central-northern Shanxi to central-southern Inner Mongolia, the development of Shimao culture can be divided into three phases: early…
Feeding Shimao: Archaeobotanical and Isotopic Investigation into Early Urbanism (4200-3000 BP) on the Northern Loess Plateau, China
Renewed excavations at Shimao, the largest stone walled urban site in northern China dating to around 4200–3700 BP, have focused on Shimao’s unusual architecture and material culture, but there remains much to be known about the subsistence system and agricultural strategies the inhabitants employed around this site. In this paper we provide new archaeobotanical and isotopic evidence for the agricultural systems and strategies that supported Shim…
Proposing a toast' from the first urban center in the north Loess Plateau, China: Alcoholic beverages at Shimao
Annual Bibliography
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
New archaeobotanical evidence for Tolai hare (Lepus tolai) millets-consumption on the Loess Plateau of China
Ceramic raptors unearthed at the site of Shimao (2300–1800 BCE) in northern China: Production and use
Use of the potter's wheel at Shimao, Shaanxi, China
Craft Specialization in the Highland Longshan Society: Perspective from the Bone Needle Workshop on the Central Mound at the Shimao Site, Shaanxi, China
The emergence of Shimao, a proto-urban center at the contact zone between agropastoral communities of the Loess Plateau and herders/hunter-gatherers of Monogolian Plateau, offers critical insights into the economic activities during the transition to the Bronze Age in continental East Asia. Unprecedented in scale in prehistoric China, the bone needle workshop at the central mound was a prelude to the specialized, industrial-scale bone production …
A tale of two cities: Isotopic evidence highlights two distinct millet-based subsistence strategies behind early urban China's Shimao and Erlitou sites
Rice cultivation and its environmental and social contexts at the Shimao site, Northwest China
Bast fiber production and consumption on the 5th-millennium-BP north Loess Plateau, China
The Establishment and Working Practices of Chinese Archaeological Institutions from the 1920s to the Present
The 1921 excavation at Yangshao, Henan Province, is generally regarded as the starting point of modern Chinese archaeology. Since then, among the humanities and social sciences, archaeology has become one of the fastest-growing disciplines in China. According to official statistics, as of September 2022, China had 91 archaeological units with the remit to excavate, including seven national-level archaeological institutions, 32 provincial-level ar…
Archaeology (19 works) · China (18 works) · Geography (18 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (14 works) · Geology (9 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Loess plateau (7 works) · Plateau (mathematics (7 works)