Sanzuodian: the structure, function and social significance of the earliest stone fortified sites in China

• Autores: Gideon Shelach, Kate Raphael, Yitzhak Jaffe
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 85, Nº 327, 2011, págs. 11-26
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The authors present new research on the Chifeng area of north-eastern China where they have been studying the remains of a society of the second millennium BC. This northern region, which saw the introduction of agriculture at the same time as the Yellow River basin experienced a brief and intensive period of fortification in the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age: natural ridges above the valleys were ringed with double stone walls and semicircular towers enclosing clusters of round houses with yards. Using large-scale survey and analysis of the structures at the key site of Sanzuodian, they place this phenomenon in its cultural and social context.