Yijie Zhuang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3585133 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yijie Zhuang |
| PRENOMES | Yijie |
| SOBRENOME | Zhuang |
| ASSINATURA | ZHUANG Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5546-0870 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Rethinking the implications of de-urbanization and similar themes to archaeology of urbanism
Prehistoric water control works in the Loess Plateau
The emergence, on the Loess Plateau of Central China, of settlements enclosed by circular ditches has engendered lively debate about the function of these (often extensive) ditch systems. Here, the authors report on a suite of new dates and sedimentological analyses from the late Yangshao (5300-4800 BP) triple-ditch system at the Shuanghuaishu site, Henan Province. Exploitation of natural topographic variations, and evidence for ditch maintenance…
Architectural technology and labour organisation at the late Neolithic Liangzhu City, Yangtze Delta region, China
Building the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site of Liangzhu City and its hinterlands was an enormous undertaking that required an unprecedented level of architectural innovations, clever logistic planning, and sophisticated labour organisation. We draw on environmental, archaeological and experimental data on the preparation and construction of grass-wrapped clay blocks at the Liangzhu City and investigate the importance of technological innovat…
Millets, dogs, pigs and permanent settlement
The transition to sedentary agricultural societies in northern China fuelled considerable demographic growth from 5000 to 2000 BC. In this article, we draw together archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and bioarchaeological data and explore the relationship between several aspects of this transition, with an emphasis on the millet-farming productivity during the Yangshao period and how it facilitated changes in animal husbandry and consolidation o…
Late prehistoric and early historic chronology of Myanmar
Myanmar is located within an important geographic corridor of prehistoric demographic and technological exchange, yet relatively few archaeological sites have been securely dated. Here, the authors present a new radiocarbon chronology for Halin, a UNESCO-listed complex in the north-central Sagaing Division of Myanmar, which contributes to the generation of nuanced regional chronologies and to improving the temporal resolution of Southeast Asia mo…
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar
We reconsider the environmental backgrounds of early millet cultures in northern China that predate the Yangshao period (before ca. 7000 BP). Interactions among soils, millets, pigs, and changing regional climate conditioned multiple early cultivation traditions. Holocene climate influenced vegetation change, including the availability of wild millets versus other storable plants like tree nuts. Early millet cultivators were located in ecotone re…
Wells, fields and the emergence of early-to-middle Holocene villages in the Huai River region, China
The history of water management is closely intertwined with evolution of social structures. In particular, the emergence of rice farming and transition to sedentary life contributed significantly to the development of water management practices, with increasing labour and economic investments to build and operate water-management infrastructures. Here we present archaeological, archaeobotanical and geoarchaeological evidence of early water manage…
Geostatistical and geoarchaeological study of Holocene floodplains and site distributions on the Sha‐Ying River Basin, Central China
Geostatistics has become a powerful method for investigating complex spatial variations of prehistoric settlements in floodplains and other geomorphological settings. A geoarchaeological drilling program that covers most of the Sha‐Ying River Basin provides a rare opportunity with unusually detailed environmental data to contest and develop the geostatistics method, which proves to be essential, in combination with archaeological data, to underst…
Geoarchaeology in China
INTRODUCTIONOver the past several decades, Chinese archaeology has rapidly developed into a scientific enterprise.Archaeological scientists in China are now routinely applying the latest scientific techniques and methods to answer questions concerning archaeological sites and material culture with increasing specificity and accuracy.Alongside the continuous development of archaeological science in China, geoarchaeological research has grown apace…
Intensification of rice farming and its environmental consequences recorded in a Liangzhu reservoir, China
Aquatic landscape and the emergence of walled sites in late Neolithic Central Plains of China
The emergence of many late-Neolithic and early Bronze-Age walled sites on China's Central Plains coincided with some prominent Holocene climate events. Recent excavation and geoarchaeological investigation at one of the largest walled sites of Guchengzhai provide important data to examine some of the questions concerning the long-term relationship between the formation of aquatic landscape and social evolution in late prehistoric Central Plains. …
Prasat and Pteah
The Angkor empire (9-15th centuries CE) was one of mainland Southeast Asia's major civilizations, with a 3000 km 2 agro-urban capital located in northwest Cambodia. Since 2010, the Greater Angkor Project has been investigating occupation areas within Angkor's urban core. This work has identified temple enclosures as important residential areas that made up part of Angkor's civic-ceremonial center. In this paper, we review excavations from residen…
A 7000‐year record of environmental change
The Hangjiahu Plain in the lower Yangtze is one of the core areas that sustained the flourishment of the Liangzhu Civilization. This study reconstructed Holocene environmental change on the Hangjiahu Plain based on a sediment core collected from the Tangqi ZK‐3 location situated on the low‐lying Hangzhou‐Taihu region of the Yangtze Delta. We applied OSL dating, grain size analysis, pollen analysis, and magnetic susceptibility to reconstruct Holoc…
Scale, depth, multi-disciplinarity, and global integration
Harvesting the winds, harvesting the rain
The Khmer did not live by rice alone
Letting the stones speak
Our interdisciplinary investigation of the stone collection and construction process of Liangzhu City walls offers important evidence to understand the engineering and organization behind the construction. We examined spatial distributions, physical and petrological characteristics of the stones discovered from our excavations of representative wall sections. These results were compared with similar aspects as well as sedimentation contexts and a…
Holocene geomorphic evolution and settlement distribution patterns in the mid-lower Fen River basins, China
Ecology and hydrology of early rice farming
The well-preserved Maoshan paddy fields (4700-4300 bp) were built on an intermediate landscape between the foothills and alluvial plain of the Lower Yangtze River. Despite several interdisciplinary research, there has been a lack of detailed environmental and ecological data to contextualise the reconstructed rice farming practices within a wider paleo-environmental background. Our research provides key information on the chronology, vegetation, …
Life cycle of a moat
Rice bulliform phytoliths reveal the process of rice domestication in the Neolithic Lower Yangtze River region
New radiocarbon evidence on early rice consumption and farming in South China
While the possibility of indigenous rice cultivation cannot be entirely ruled out, there is increasing evidence suggesting that rice farming was introduced to South China during the late-Holocene. However, determination of the exact timing of the spread of rice farming to South China is fraught with the lack of reliable radiocarbon dates. In this article, we present 15 new AMS 14 C dates of charred plant remains recovered from late-Holocene sites…
The cradle of heaven-human induction idealism
Han China (206 bc–ad 220) witnessed significant population growth, pronounced technological development, intensified agricultural practices and the construction of large-scale hydraulic engineering projects in the Yellow River. These processes coincided with increased frequency and intensity of major floods along the Yellow River. The interactions between flooding and social-technical developments fundamentally reshaped the politics of the Han an…
Anthropocene archaeology of the Yellow River, China, 5000–2000 BP
In this paper, we use geoarchaeological and paleoenvironmental data from three localities in the Yellow River Valley, China – Taosi, Sanyangzhuang, and the Yiluo Valley – to argue that human activity in the mid- to late-Holocene contributed to large-scale changes in the behavior of the Yellow River and that these changes were of sufficient magnitude to bend the arc of China’s history. Massive anthropogenic landscape transformation from the later …
Comparing subsistence strategies in different landscapes of North China 10,000 years ago
A recent switch in the study of the beginning of agriculture is to demonstrate the increasingly closer interaction between people and the landscape and how this would have played a crucial role in the transition to agriculture. Understanding the palaeo-ecology of the local environments at key sites and its relationship with subsistence strategies is critical to an improved appreciation of such interactions. This article examines macro- and micro-…
Archaeology of the Anthropocene in the Yellow River region, China, 8000–2000 cal. BP
Although archaeological analysis emphasizes the importance of climatic events as a driver of historical processes, we use a variety of environmental and archaeological data to show that human modification of the environment was a significant factor in shaping the early history of the Yellow River region of North China. Humans began to modify site-specific and local-level environments in the Early Holocene (~11,500–7000 BP). By the Mid-Holocene (~…
New radiocarbon evidence on early rice consumption and farming in South China
While the possibility of indigenous rice cultivation cannot be entirely ruled out, there is increasing evidence suggesting that rice farming was introduced to South China during the late-Holocene. However, determination of the exact timing of the spread of rice farming to South China is fraught with the lack of reliable radiocarbon dates. In this article, we present 15 new AMS 14 C dates of charred plant remains recovered from late-Holocene sites…
Water management and agricultural intensification of rice farming at the late-Neolithic site of Maoshan, Lower Yangtze River, China
Intensifying water management for rice farming and related land use involves increasing labour investment in transforming local landscapes. By applying geoarchaeological investigation at the well-preserved late-Neolithic rice paddy site of Maoshan, Lower Yangtze River, during the excavation, this study provides detailed information of the changing relationship between water management, agricultural intensification, environmental change and social…
Anthropocene archaeology of the Yellow River, China, 5000–2000 BP
In this paper, we use geoarchaeological and paleoenvironmental data from three localities in the Yellow River Valley, China – Taosi, Sanyangzhuang, and the Yiluo Valley – to argue that human activity in the mid- to late-Holocene contributed to large-scale changes in the behavior of the Yellow River and that these changes were of sufficient magnitude to bend the arc of China’s history. Massive anthropogenic landscape transformation from the later …
Comparing subsistence strategies in different landscapes of North China 10,000 years ago
A recent switch in the study of the beginning of agriculture is to demonstrate the increasingly closer interaction between people and the landscape and how this would have played a crucial role in the transition to agriculture. Understanding the palaeo-ecology of the local environments at key sites and its relationship with subsistence strategies is critical to an improved appreciation of such interactions. This article examines macro- and micro-…
Millets, dogs, pigs and permanent settlement
The transition to sedentary agricultural societies in northern China fuelled considerable demographic growth from 5000 to 2000 BC. In this article, we draw together archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and bioarchaeological data and explore the relationship between several aspects of this transition, with an emphasis on the millet-farming productivity during the Yangshao period and how it facilitated changes in animal husbandry and consolidation o…
Ecology and hydrology of early rice farming
The well-preserved Maoshan paddy fields (4700-4300 bp) were built on an intermediate landscape between the foothills and alluvial plain of the Lower Yangtze River. Despite several interdisciplinary research, there has been a lack of detailed environmental and ecological data to contextualise the reconstructed rice farming practices within a wider paleo-environmental background. Our research provides key information on the chronology, vegetation, …
The cradle of heaven-human induction idealism
Han China (206 bc–ad 220) witnessed significant population growth, pronounced technological development, intensified agricultural practices and the construction of large-scale hydraulic engineering projects in the Yellow River. These processes coincided with increased frequency and intensity of major floods along the Yellow River. The interactions between flooding and social-technical developments fundamentally reshaped the politics of the Han an…
Letting the stones speak
Our interdisciplinary investigation of the stone collection and construction process of Liangzhu City walls offers important evidence to understand the engineering and organization behind the construction. We examined spatial distributions, physical and petrological characteristics of the stones discovered from our excavations of representative wall sections. These results were compared with similar aspects as well as sedimentation contexts and a…
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar
We reconsider the environmental backgrounds of early millet cultures in northern China that predate the Yangshao period (before ca. 7000 BP). Interactions among soils, millets, pigs, and changing regional climate conditioned multiple early cultivation traditions. Holocene climate influenced vegetation change, including the availability of wild millets versus other storable plants like tree nuts. Early millet cultivators were located in ecotone re…
The Khmer did not live by rice alone
Neolithisation in North China
Multi-disciplinary research in different parts of the world has demonstrated that neolithisation or the establishment of the ‘neolithic’ way of life, including economy, settlement, landscape management and ideology, was a lengthy process. In North China, this prolonged neolithisation is characterised by ecological diversity and increasing landscape management throughout the Terminal Palaeolithic to the Early Neolithic. Geoarchaeology is a crucial…
Architectural technology and labour organisation at the late Neolithic Liangzhu City, Yangtze Delta region, China
Building the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site of Liangzhu City and its hinterlands was an enormous undertaking that required an unprecedented level of architectural innovations, clever logistic planning, and sophisticated labour organisation. We draw on environmental, archaeological and experimental data on the preparation and construction of grass-wrapped clay blocks at the Liangzhu City and investigate the importance of technological innovat…
Late prehistoric and early historic chronology of Myanmar
Myanmar is located within an important geographic corridor of prehistoric demographic and technological exchange, yet relatively few archaeological sites have been securely dated. Here, the authors present a new radiocarbon chronology for Halin, a UNESCO-listed complex in the north-central Sagaing Division of Myanmar, which contributes to the generation of nuanced regional chronologies and to improving the temporal resolution of Southeast Asia mo…
Geostatistical and geoarchaeological study of Holocene floodplains and site distributions on the Sha‐Ying River Basin, Central China
Geostatistics has become a powerful method for investigating complex spatial variations of prehistoric settlements in floodplains and other geomorphological settings. A geoarchaeological drilling program that covers most of the Sha‐Ying River Basin provides a rare opportunity with unusually detailed environmental data to contest and develop the geostatistics method, which proves to be essential, in combination with archaeological data, to underst…
A 7000‐year record of environmental change
The Hangjiahu Plain in the lower Yangtze is one of the core areas that sustained the flourishment of the Liangzhu Civilization. This study reconstructed Holocene environmental change on the Hangjiahu Plain based on a sediment core collected from the Tangqi ZK‐3 location situated on the low‐lying Hangzhou‐Taihu region of the Yangtze Delta. We applied OSL dating, grain size analysis, pollen analysis, and magnetic susceptibility to reconstruct Holoc…
Harvesting the winds, harvesting the rain
Wells, fields and the emergence of early-to-middle Holocene villages in the Huai River region, China
The history of water management is closely intertwined with evolution of social structures. In particular, the emergence of rice farming and transition to sedentary life contributed significantly to the development of water management practices, with increasing labour and economic investments to build and operate water-management infrastructures. Here we present archaeological, archaeobotanical and geoarchaeological evidence of early water manage…
Geoarchaeology in China
INTRODUCTIONOver the past several decades, Chinese archaeology has rapidly developed into a scientific enterprise.Archaeological scientists in China are now routinely applying the latest scientific techniques and methods to answer questions concerning archaeological sites and material culture with increasing specificity and accuracy.Alongside the continuous development of archaeological science in China, geoarchaeological research has grown apace…
Aquatic landscape and the emergence of walled sites in late Neolithic Central Plains of China
The emergence of many late-Neolithic and early Bronze-Age walled sites on China's Central Plains coincided with some prominent Holocene climate events. Recent excavation and geoarchaeological investigation at one of the largest walled sites of Guchengzhai provide important data to examine some of the questions concerning the long-term relationship between the formation of aquatic landscape and social evolution in late prehistoric Central Plains. …
River floodplain aggradation history and cultural activities
Archaeology of the Anthropocene in the Yellow River region, China, 8000–2000 cal. BP
Although archaeological analysis emphasizes the importance of climatic events as a driver of historical processes, we use a variety of environmental and archaeological data to show that human modification of the environment was a significant factor in shaping the early history of the Yellow River region of North China. Humans began to modify site-specific and local-level environments in the Early Holocene (~11,500–7000 BP). By the Mid-Holocene (~…
Water management and agricultural intensification of rice farming at the late-Neolithic site of Maoshan, Lower Yangtze River, China
Intensifying water management for rice farming and related land use involves increasing labour investment in transforming local landscapes. By applying geoarchaeological investigation at the well-preserved late-Neolithic rice paddy site of Maoshan, Lower Yangtze River, during the excavation, this study provides detailed information of the changing relationship between water management, agricultural intensification, environmental change and social…
Anthropocene archaeology of the Yellow River, China, 5000–2000 BP
In this paper, we use geoarchaeological and paleoenvironmental data from three localities in the Yellow River Valley, China – Taosi, Sanyangzhuang, and the Yiluo Valley – to argue that human activity in the mid- to late-Holocene contributed to large-scale changes in the behavior of the Yellow River and that these changes were of sufficient magnitude to bend the arc of China’s history. Massive anthropogenic landscape transformation from the later …
Comparing subsistence strategies in different landscapes of North China 10,000 years ago
A recent switch in the study of the beginning of agriculture is to demonstrate the increasingly closer interaction between people and the landscape and how this would have played a crucial role in the transition to agriculture. Understanding the palaeo-ecology of the local environments at key sites and its relationship with subsistence strategies is critical to an improved appreciation of such interactions. This article examines macro- and micro-…
Neolithisation in North China
Multi-disciplinary research in different parts of the world has demonstrated that neolithisation or the establishment of the ‘neolithic’ way of life, including economy, settlement, landscape management and ideology, was a lengthy process. In North China, this prolonged neolithisation is characterised by ecological diversity and increasing landscape management throughout the Terminal Palaeolithic to the Early Neolithic. Geoarchaeology is a crucial…
Rice bulliform phytoliths reveal the process of rice domestication in the Neolithic Lower Yangtze River region
New radiocarbon evidence on early rice consumption and farming in South China
While the possibility of indigenous rice cultivation cannot be entirely ruled out, there is increasing evidence suggesting that rice farming was introduced to South China during the late-Holocene. However, determination of the exact timing of the spread of rice farming to South China is fraught with the lack of reliable radiocarbon dates. In this article, we present 15 new AMS 14 C dates of charred plant remains recovered from late-Holocene sites…
The cradle of heaven-human induction idealism
Han China (206 bc–ad 220) witnessed significant population growth, pronounced technological development, intensified agricultural practices and the construction of large-scale hydraulic engineering projects in the Yellow River. These processes coincided with increased frequency and intensity of major floods along the Yellow River. The interactions between flooding and social-technical developments fundamentally reshaped the politics of the Han an…
Life cycle of a moat
Holocene geomorphic evolution and settlement distribution patterns in the mid-lower Fen River basins, China
Ecology and hydrology of early rice farming
The well-preserved Maoshan paddy fields (4700-4300 bp) were built on an intermediate landscape between the foothills and alluvial plain of the Lower Yangtze River. Despite several interdisciplinary research, there has been a lack of detailed environmental and ecological data to contextualise the reconstructed rice farming practices within a wider paleo-environmental background. Our research provides key information on the chronology, vegetation, …
The Khmer did not live by rice alone
Letting the stones speak
Our interdisciplinary investigation of the stone collection and construction process of Liangzhu City walls offers important evidence to understand the engineering and organization behind the construction. We examined spatial distributions, physical and petrological characteristics of the stones discovered from our excavations of representative wall sections. These results were compared with similar aspects as well as sedimentation contexts and a…
Harvesting the winds, harvesting the rain
Intensification of rice farming and its environmental consequences recorded in a Liangzhu reservoir, China
Aquatic landscape and the emergence of walled sites in late Neolithic Central Plains of China
The emergence of many late-Neolithic and early Bronze-Age walled sites on China's Central Plains coincided with some prominent Holocene climate events. Recent excavation and geoarchaeological investigation at one of the largest walled sites of Guchengzhai provide important data to examine some of the questions concerning the long-term relationship between the formation of aquatic landscape and social evolution in late prehistoric Central Plains. …
Prasat and Pteah
The Angkor empire (9-15th centuries CE) was one of mainland Southeast Asia's major civilizations, with a 3000 km 2 agro-urban capital located in northwest Cambodia. Since 2010, the Greater Angkor Project has been investigating occupation areas within Angkor's urban core. This work has identified temple enclosures as important residential areas that made up part of Angkor's civic-ceremonial center. In this paper, we review excavations from residen…
A 7000‐year record of environmental change
The Hangjiahu Plain in the lower Yangtze is one of the core areas that sustained the flourishment of the Liangzhu Civilization. This study reconstructed Holocene environmental change on the Hangjiahu Plain based on a sediment core collected from the Tangqi ZK‐3 location situated on the low‐lying Hangzhou‐Taihu region of the Yangtze Delta. We applied OSL dating, grain size analysis, pollen analysis, and magnetic susceptibility to reconstruct Holoc…
Scale, depth, multi-disciplinarity, and global integration
Wells, fields and the emergence of early-to-middle Holocene villages in the Huai River region, China
The history of water management is closely intertwined with evolution of social structures. In particular, the emergence of rice farming and transition to sedentary life contributed significantly to the development of water management practices, with increasing labour and economic investments to build and operate water-management infrastructures. Here we present archaeological, archaeobotanical and geoarchaeological evidence of early water manage…
Geostatistical and geoarchaeological study of Holocene floodplains and site distributions on the Sha‐Ying River Basin, Central China
Geostatistics has become a powerful method for investigating complex spatial variations of prehistoric settlements in floodplains and other geomorphological settings. A geoarchaeological drilling program that covers most of the Sha‐Ying River Basin provides a rare opportunity with unusually detailed environmental data to contest and develop the geostatistics method, which proves to be essential, in combination with archaeological data, to underst…
Geoarchaeology in China
INTRODUCTIONOver the past several decades, Chinese archaeology has rapidly developed into a scientific enterprise.Archaeological scientists in China are now routinely applying the latest scientific techniques and methods to answer questions concerning archaeological sites and material culture with increasing specificity and accuracy.Alongside the continuous development of archaeological science in China, geoarchaeological research has grown apace…
Architectural technology and labour organisation at the late Neolithic Liangzhu City, Yangtze Delta region, China
Building the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site of Liangzhu City and its hinterlands was an enormous undertaking that required an unprecedented level of architectural innovations, clever logistic planning, and sophisticated labour organisation. We draw on environmental, archaeological and experimental data on the preparation and construction of grass-wrapped clay blocks at the Liangzhu City and investigate the importance of technological innovat…
Millets, dogs, pigs and permanent settlement
The transition to sedentary agricultural societies in northern China fuelled considerable demographic growth from 5000 to 2000 BC. In this article, we draw together archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and bioarchaeological data and explore the relationship between several aspects of this transition, with an emphasis on the millet-farming productivity during the Yangshao period and how it facilitated changes in animal husbandry and consolidation o…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (27 obras) · Geography (27 obras) · Archaeology (23 obras) · China (17 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (15 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (14 obras) · Geology (12 obras) · Paleontology (12 obras) · Ecology (10 obras) · Holocene (10 obras)