Continuity and Local Evolution in the Neolithic of South China: A Non-Nuclear Approach [and Comments and Reply]
| Autor: | Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, Brad Bartel, James C. Y. Watt, Lech Krzyżaniak, Jim G. Shaffer, Jonathan H. Kress, Jean S. Aigner, Richard Pearson, William Meacham, P. Bleed, Ia. V. Chesnov, Warren Peterson, Sarah Milledge Nelson, Donn Bayard, Noel Barnard, Robert K. Evans |
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| Rok vydání: | 1977 |
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| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 18:419-440 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/201924 |
| Popis: | The Neolithic of South China (and of the Far East generally) has traditionally been reconstructed on nuclear-diffusionist models; chronologies and local culture sequences in South China have been related to the rise of agriculture and Neolithic technology in North China, and their subsequent spread into the South, often seen to have resulted from a movement of peoples out of the "nuclear area." Recent data now suggest a generally contemporaneous though largely autonomous development of agriculture, pottery, polished stone tools, and boat transport within South China, beginning in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition and marked by technological continuity with gradually crystallizing local "Bacsonian" subcultures after ca. 8000 B.C. The Middle Neolithic "Lungshanoid" and "Yueh" horizons of the Yangtze Delta and southern coast, respectively, are suggested to have emerged (possibly with a significant stimulus from the changing land-sea configuration in the early Holocene) by the 6th or 5th millennium B.C. and... |
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