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SUMMARY:The Archaeology of River Floodplains in the Early Neolithic of Nor
 th China: A Palaeo-ecological Perspective - Yijie Zhuang
DTSTART:20121119T160000Z
DTEND:20121119T170000Z
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CONTACT:Jennifer Bates
DESCRIPTION:Recent excavations at some early-Neolithic sites (8000-7000 ca
 l. BP) in the Lower Yellow River have generated rich archaeological and pa
 laeo-ecological assemblages\, including the to date earliest carbonized ri
 ce remains in North China. These discoveries trigger heated debate on issu
 es such as environmental changes and cultural adaptations. Archaeobotanica
 l and geoarchaeological investigations have provided important evidence re
 garding the importance of river floodplain environments to these early Neo
 lithic sites. At Xihe\, carbonised rice remains and millet remains are dis
 covered along with numerous weed plant seeds\, suggesting a diversified pa
 ttern of plant food exploitation. This is to some extent corroborated by i
 sotopic analyses. Geoarchaeological examination of the typical alluvial ag
 gradating sequence at Yuezhuang provides valuable information of the intim
 ate interaction between the people and the seasonally usable river floodpl
 ain environment. Here I continue to explore the palaeo-ecology of such riv
 er floodplain environments\, with an aim to combine different lines of evi
 dence obtained by recent research and to synthesis the long-term interacti
 on between people and river floodplains in the Neolithic of North China.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, McDonald Institute for Archaeology\, Downing Site
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