The Hongshan Papers: Collected Studies on the Archaeology of Northern China (2618) (British Archaeological Reports International Series)

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The papers gathered together in this volume represent over a dozen years of research on the Hongshan period in north-eastern China. Hongshan is the name given to a group of Late Neolithic sites north of the Great Wall of China, in Liaoning Province and Inner Mongolia. Papers are arranged thematically covering the following topics: General (An introduction to the geographical locations); Hongshan as a Complex Society; Ideology and Pigs; Gender; Hongshan Trade and Research Papers on Niuheliang. With contributions from Charlotte Bell, Guo Dashun, Lu Xueming, Anne Martin-Montgomery, Rachel A. Matson, Hung-jen Niu, Yangjin Pak, Rachel M. Roberts, Chris Rock, Robert E. Stencel, Tiffany Tchakirides and Zhu Da Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Collected Papers on the Hongshan Period in Late Neolithic China “Introduction” from The Archaeology of Northeast China, S.M. Nelson, ed. 1995, Routledge, pp. 1-17 The Neolithic of northeastern China and Korea A Brief Visit to Chifeng and Vicinity, Niuheliang, and the Russian Far East The Development of Complexity in Prehistoric Northern China The Organization of Complexity Beyond the Great Wall Hongshan - an early Complex Society in northeast China Comment on Burials, Pigs, and Political Prestige in Neolithic China, by Seong-ok Kim Ritualized Pigs and the Origins of Complex Society: Hypotheses Regarding the Hongshan Culture Pigs in the Hongshan Culture The “Goddess Temple” and the Status of Women at Niuheliang, China Ideology, Power, and Gender: Emergent Complex Society in Northeastern China Performing Power in Early China: Examples from the Shang Dynasty and the Hongshan Culture Trade in Northeastern China in the Early Bronze Age Central Asian Influence on the Hongshan period in China? Investigations at Niuheliang, 2002 Archaeoastronomy at Niuheliang, Liaoning Province, China Leadership in the Hongshan Periods of Northeast China Bibliography: The Hongshan Papers, Sarah Milledge Nelson