ANT313H5 Lecture Notes - Cishan Culture, Foxtail Millet, Xinglongwa Culture
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Use wear analysis (get patterns on the stone: hard uses such as on minerals such as hematite for body paint (they also found residue) Starch grains: make analysis of the grains to see what crop. Shizitan lessons: creating niches, not chasing them. Bianbiandong in shandong province: nice cliff faces and see terrace hillsides. China: early holocene life (and the earliest agriculture) Objectives: know some of them, think of why they"re located, north and central china patterns, context in timing and what situations of animal domestication. Vegetation: drier as you go into the interior. Major agriculture zones: green: focus on rice and other plants that like warmer climates, tan: dry crops (millets, wheat, barley) North china plants and animals: hops, hemp, soybean, paper mulberry, pigs, dog, chinese bayberry, peach, jujube or chinese date, yam. Aquatic plants in the yangzi valley: water chestnut/caltrop. Loess distribution: soil (wind blown dust blowing across from the west)
