ANT313H5 Lecture : ANT313 (Oct 23, 2012) - Chinese Middle Neolithic.docx
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What"s the conclusion: artifact recovery are strong correlated between sectors the differences stems from the particular excavated areas and not other variables, different in the kinds and intensity of productive activities pursued by residents in different sectors. Jiangzhai: social and economic organization of a middle neolithic chinese village (christian e. peterson) variables relevant to social complexity study: adornment-minimal difference, animals in exchange for ceramics. Personal skills and investments: storage facility size and relationship to privatization. Everybody had own storage pits and own resources. Different economical levels depending on the sizes of the storage/pits local control within your sector: storage and differential resource accumulation. There are 5 sectors and there"s a large communal structure in each. And in each communal structure, there are small houses surrounding it: conclusion: Nobody running the exchanges but ran by the households with each other.
