Overview
- Focuses on the burial record of the culturally diverse Liangshan region in Southwest China
- Presents a new model and method of analysis for burial material
- Highlights the relationship between burial data and past identities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Model and the Material
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Evaluating the Model and the Data
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Back Matter
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About this book
The model treats burials as composite objects, considering the various elements separately in their respective life histories. The application of this approach to the rich and diverse archaeological record of the Liangshan region serves as a test of this new form of analysis.
This volume thus pursues two main aims: to advance the understanding of the archaeology of the immediate study area which has been little examined, and to present and test a new scheme of analysis that can be applied to other bodies of material.
Reviews
“For specialists of southern Chinese prehistoric archaeology, it is an indispensable compendium that complements other works in Hein’s impressive portfolio of research.” (AnnieChan, Asian Perspectives, The Journal of Archaeology and the Pacific, Vol. (60) 1, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anke Hein holds the Peter Moores Associate Professorship for Chinese Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. She is an anthropological archaeologist focusing on pre-historic and early historic China. In 2013, she received her doctorate at the Interdepartmental Program in Archaeology at UCLA with a thesis entitled, "Cultural Geography and Interregional Contacts in Prehistoric Liangshan (Southwest China)." Her work in the region has resulted in publications in top-tier journals such as Quaternary International and Asian Archaeology, and in important Chinese archaeological journals such as Sichuan Wenwu. Her interest in questions of inter-cultural contact is reflected in an edited volume on The “Crescent-Shaped Cultural-Communication Belt”: Tong Enzheng’s Model in Retrospect that was published in 2014. She has been involved in archaeological and ethnographic work in the mountains of Southwest China for many years. In her newest research project,she is turning her attention to another expression of group identities reflected by focusing on patterns of ceramic production and usage in prehistoric Northwest China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Burial Record of Prehistoric Liangshan in Southwest China
Book Subtitle: Graves as Composite Objects
Authors: Anke Hein
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42384-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42383-8Published: 21 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82566-3Published: 30 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42384-5Published: 13 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 534
Number of Illustrations: 103 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology