ARKY 325 Lecture 6: ARKY 325 Week 6
11 Feb 2017
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The ecological setting: developed along the huanghe/yellow river. Even though it developed along the yellow river, it was, in its initial stages, not a floodplain civilization. The early farming villages sat high above the river, on deep loess deposits: to the south is the other major chinese river, the yangtze river. River cuts deep through the loess deposits, often changing its course and creating lakes, marshes and alluvial fields: neolithic villages perched high above the river. The river itself an enemy, subject to disastrous flooding: the nuclear area for farming is in shanxi, shaanxi, kansu, and. These are all in the uplands or mountainous areas. The neolithic revolution: largely an indigenous development, based on local plant domesticates. Chinese is largely a grain-based agriculture: animals not as important as in the west. Animals mostly for meat, not secondary product. 2: dairying not important, cattle not used as draft animals, cattle-drawn plough introduced only after 500 bc.
