Craft Production and Social Change in Northern China
This book offers an anthropological analysis of how craft production changed in relation to the development of complex societies in northern China. It focuses on the production and use of food containers-pottery and bronze vessels-during the late prehisto
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FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN ARCHAEOLOGY Series Editors:
Gary M. Feinman
The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois T. Douglas Price University of Wisconsin-Madison Editorial Board: Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University· Christine Hastorf, University of California - Berkeley· Jeffrey Hantman, University of Virginia· Patty Jo Watson, Washington University· Linda Manzanilla, Unlversldad Nacional Aut6noma de Mexico· John Parkington, University of Capetown· Klavs Randsborg, University of Copenhagen· Olga Soffer· University of Illinois· Matthew Spriggs, Australian National University· John Yellen, National Science Foundation
BEYOND FORAGING AND COLLECTING Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems Edited by Ben Fitzhugh and Junko Habu CRAFT PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN NORTHERN CHINA Anne P. Underhill EMERGENCE AND CHANGE IN EARLY URBAN SOCIETIES Edited by Linda Manzanilla FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY Edited by T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman FROM LEADERS TO RULERS Edited by Jonathan Haas LANDSCAPES OF POWER, LANDSCAPES OF CONFLICT State Formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age Tina L. Thurston LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES, ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, AND INTERREGIONAL INTERACTION Social Complexity in Northeast China Gideon Shelach LIFE IN NEOLITHIC FARMING COMMUNITIES Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation Edited by Ian Kuijt
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eraft Production and Social Change in Northern China
ANNE P. UNDERHILL The Field Museum
Chicago, Illinois
SPRlNGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC
Ubrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Underhill, Anne P. Craft production and social change in northern China/Anne P. Underhill p. cm. - (Fundamental issues in archaeology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4613-5172-6 ISBN 978-1-4615-0641-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-0641-6
1. Antiquties-Prehistoric-China.
2. China-Civilization.
3. Pottery; Prehistoric-China.
4. China-Antiquities. 5. Bronzes-Chinese. 1. Title. II. Series. GN778.32.C5 U53 2002 931-dc21 2002066911
The image on ilie cover is from a rubbing of a wall in the Wu Uang shrine, Jiaxiang county, southwestern Shandong. This shrine, dating to A.D. 151, the Eastern Han period, was built In front of ilie grave of a male official named Wu Uang, for presentation of food offerings after burial Z 60
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