Reconstructing the social structure of kinship members in the Central Plains during the Late Shang and Western Zhou dynasties in China
A stable isotopic study on the Xisima site
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| ID | 7147393 |
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| Autores | Hengmeng Geng (0009-0001-4201-9178, Department of Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and Museology, School of Arts and Archaeology Zhejiang University Hangzhou China), Xin Du (0000-0001-8908-6784, Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology of Zhengzhou city Zhengzhou China), Qingli Wei (Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology of Zhengzhou city Zhengzhou China, autor correspondente), Yi Guo (0000-0001-8622-2314, Department of Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and Museology, School of Arts and Archaeology Zhejiang University Hangzhou China, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2025 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 570-588 |
| Data de publicação | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Archaeometry (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0003-813X • E-ISSN: 1475-4754 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/arcm.13024 |
| OpenAlex | W4401545527 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 49 |
Kinship plays a role at the grassroots of social organization, especially in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which is an important research topic in China. However, the relationship between diet and the social status of kinship and kinship members has been little explored in previous studies. In this article, 52 skeletal bone collagen samples from humans and buried dogs from three different kinships in the Xisima cemetery in China were analysed by stable C and N isotope analysis to reveal dietary strategies, and thus explore subsistence patterns and social structure. Overall, the mean human δ 13 C was −8.4‰ ± 1.3‰ ( n = 44), with a range of −10.0‰ to −7.4‰, and the mean δ 15 N was 9.0‰ ± 0.7‰ ( n = 44), with a wide range of 7.9–11.1‰, which shows that C 4 food dominates people’s diet, and that their diet was varied. There are differences in diet and rank among different kinships. Similar situations exist among kinship members based on platforms. Along with previous research, this study provides unprecedented dietary details of different social stratification from martyrs, common people and small nobles to high‐ranking nobles in order to better understand the hierarchical Shang and Zhou dynasties society based on kinship
Archaeology · China · Genealogy · Geography · Kinship · Social science · Social stratification · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · History · Isotope Analysis in Ecology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
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