Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction: Social Complexity in Northeast China

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Springer Science & Business Media, 30 kwi 1999 - 280
An attempt to render Chinese archaeology more accessible to Western readers through a detailed case study of approximately 16,000 years of cultural development in northeastern China. The author addresses prehistoric sociopolitical processes in the Dongbei region through an analysis of both his and other researchers' field data and demonstrates the potential contribution of conducting archaeological research into anthropology-related issues in China.
 

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Introduction
1
Reconciling the Dichotomies
9
Social Evolution AntiEvolution and Heterarchy Indigenous Processes and External Influences
25
Managerial versus Exploitative Leadership
31
Multidimensional Framework for the Study
39
The Paradigm of Chinese Archaeology
47
TheArchaeology of the Chifeng Area and of Northeast China
53
Theoretical
60
Sociolpolitical Synthesis of the Lower Xiajiadian System
137
Habitation Sites
144
Artifacts of the Upper Xiajiadian Period
151
Economic Base
161
Diachronic Analysis of Processes
185
Population Aggregation and Political Hierarchy The Emergence of Pastoralism Interregional Interaction and Social Changes in
192
Northeast China Interregional Interaction during the Lower Xiajiadian Period
199
Social Complexity among Upper Xiajidian Polities
204

Geographic Background
67
Hongshan and Related Cultures
73
Graves Ritual Sites and Associated Objects
79
Lower c 23001600 Xiajiadian B C
89
Artifacts
98
Burials and Cemeteries
110
Geographic Limits of the Lower Xiajiadian Polity
118
Interregional Interactions during the Upper Xiajiadian Period
212
Conclusion and Suggestions for Future
227
Future Research in the Chifeng Area
234
Glossary of Chinese Terms
243
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