Salt production and social hierarchy in ancient China an archaeological investigation of specialization in China's Three Gorges

This book examines the organization of specialized salt production at Zhongba, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Three Gorges of China's Yangzi River valley. Rowan K. Flad demonstrates that salt production emerged in the second millennium BCE and developed into a large-scale, i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flad, Rowan K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Production and specialization in complex societies
  • 3. Ancient salt production in Sichuan
  • 4. The Zhongba site
  • 5. Ceramic evidence
  • 6. Parameters of production according to ceramics
  • 7. Features and spatiality
  • 8. Animal remains and divination
  • 9. Conclusions and Implications