The late prehistory of xinjiang in relation to its neighbors

Autor: Fredrik T. Hiebert, Kwang tzuu Chen
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: Journal of World Prehistory. 9:243-300
ISSN: 1573-7802
0892-7537
DOI: 10.1007/bf02221840
Popis: Recent research by Chinese archaeologists has identified many late prehistoric (2000-400 B.C.) oases, pastoral settlements, and cemeteries in eastern Central Asia (Xinjiang province of China). The synthesis presented here organizes the data into 10 archaeological cultures, defined on the basis of ceramics, burials, small finds, and architecture. The archaeological cultures reveal two periods, corresponding to the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. The oases cultures formed a core area before the Chinese Han period and maintained close contacts with nearby highland pastoralists in Siberia and western Central Asia. The evidence for interaction between Xinjiang and the complex cultures in China and western Central Asia is evaluated with regard to the origins of the early Xinjiang cultures.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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