ARKY 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Taosi, Grave Goods, Defensive Wall
20 Mar 2016
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Maybe look up a water management aricle for the aricle review. Jade becomes associated with elite status and elite burials. Lung shan: subsequent cultural period of the lang shau (sp?) Irrigaion within farming, larger setlements, ceramics are being produced on a wheel. Burial comparison at taosi, a lung shan culture site. Not of stone or bricks, just sediments of dirt pounded together (hang tu technique) People who are buried in caskets oten have grave goods and mark an elite status. People buried just in a hole in the ground oten don"t have grave goods, marking lower status. Scapulamancy telling of the future by using the scapula of an animal. Lines or holes drilled into the bone and the way the bone cracks in the ire is read by a specialist/a shaman. The paterns of the cracks tell the future. In burials awe also see evidence of trauma and injuries that are evident of ighing.
