ANT313H5 Lecture Notes - Sanxingdui, Loess, Erlitou Culture
Document Summary
Erlitou stone tools: 42% of tools are agricultural. Pit with human bones: called it a sacrificial pit, not just a regular burial because no grave goods were found with it. Wheel vehicles: wheel chariots and wagon. City wall excavation daxigu site, zhengzhou: the unique earth that is so fine and pounded to make walls. Erlitou (liu and chen: first large urban centre in china. There are some in longshan period, but there"s no palace, craft specialization, jewelry, etc: significant bronze making, making bronze ritual vessels, link through family and lineages; shamanism, phase 1: large settlement. Rapid nucleation migration: phase 2: urbanization begins. 3 times the area of phase 1; large, complex buildings: phase 3: urbanization peak. Yiluo valley: something that may have cemented the whole region together. Erlitou: settlement and resources: where different resources are coming from to erlitou, main constituents of bronze alloy.
