The Beixin culture: archaeobotanical evidence for a population dispersal of Neolithic hunter-gatherer-cultivators in northern China

Jin, G., Chen, S., Li, H., Fan, X., Yang, A. and Mithen, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7443 (2020) The Beixin culture: archaeobotanical evidence for a population dispersal of Neolithic hunter-gatherer-cultivators in northern China. Antiquity, 94 (378). pp. 1426-1443. ISSN 1745-1744 doi: 10.15184/aqy.2020.63

Abstract/Summary

According to the ‘farming/dispersal’ hypothesis, the Early and Mid-Holocene spread of Neolithic material culture in East Asia would have arisen from dispersals of established farming populations. The authors test this hypothesis by considering the Beixin Culture that appeared in the south-west Haidai region of northern China c. 5000 BC, before spreading north and east to the coast over the subsequent millennium. While this culture had architecture, elaborate pottery and other forms of Neolithic material culture, analysis of archaeobotanical evidence from Guanqiaocunnan (4340–3970 BC) suggests an economic base of hunting, gathering and cultivating, rather than a reliance on farming.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/95626
Identification Number/DOI	10.15184/aqy.2020.63
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Archaeology
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
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