Residents of stilted houses and their burials in eastern China, 5500 BP: Excavation of the Gujiazhuang site on the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay

IF 0.9 2区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2024.100586

Fengya Ding , Zhanwei Du , Chaolong Yue , Shuzhi Wang , Yifan Zhao , Fan Yang , Yongchao Ma

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The discovery of the remains of early rice cultivation in the coastal regions of eastern China has garnered significant international attention. However, there has been a lack of focus on the early rice agricultural settlement construction process, building material selection and spatial utilization pattern. This study introduces the Gujiazhuang site, a small-scale settlement from the late Neolithic Hemudu culture. At this site, stilt buildings were constructed on earthen platforms using Celtis pillars and boards with multiple tree species. Also, twelve uniformly constructed graves surrounding above buildings, some using camphor wood as coffins, have been found. The remains indicate that human daily activities were concentrated on the consciously constructed earthen platform, with stilted houses and burials distributed in a mixed manner, and the scale of the population was likely to be that of a family. This discovery provides a household model for adapting to coastal, low-altitude environments in late Neolithic eastern China.

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Archaeological Research in Asia ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Archaeological Research in Asia presents high quality scholarly research conducted in between the Bosporus and the Pacific on a broad range of archaeological subjects of importance to audiences across Asia and around the world. The journal covers the traditional components of archaeology: placing events and patterns in time and space; analysis of past lifeways; and explanations for cultural processes and change. To this end, the publication will highlight theoretical and methodological advances in studying the past, present new data, and detail patterns that reshape our understanding of it. Archaeological Research in Asia publishes work on the full temporal range of archaeological inquiry from the earliest human presence in Asia with a special emphasis on time periods under-represented in other venues. Journal contributions are of three kinds: articles, case reports and short communications. Full length articles should present synthetic treatments, novel analyses, or theoretical approaches to unresolved issues. Case reports present basic data on subjects that are of broad interest because they represent key sites, sequences, and subjects that figure prominently, or should figure prominently, in how scholars both inside and outside Asia understand the archaeology of cultural and biological change through time. Short communications present new findings (e.g., radiocarbon dates) that are important to the extent that they reaffirm or change the way scholars in Asia and around the world think about Asian cultural or biological history.