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SUMMARY:Paleoethnobotany in the Chinese Bronze Age: Understanding Early Urbanization through Plant Remains
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTED BY\nXuexiang Chen\n( 陈雪香 )\nProfessor of Archaeology\,\nShandong University (China)\nVisiting Professor\,\nYale University \nUrbanization during the Chinese Bronze Age was not merely a demographic aggregation\, but a profound transformation of social organization and lifestyle.\nDrawing on two decades of archaeobotanical findings from major urban centers and secondary sites in the Central Plains and the Shandong region\, this report re-examines the life of early cities through paleoethnobotanical evidence. \nAs an archaeologist\, Xuexiang Chen investigates the origin and spread of early agriculture and its role in the development of social complexity in early China. Her research focuses on the period from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age. She has conducted several fieldwork projects in the Haidai region of the lower Yellow River. Since 2007\, she has served as a faculty member in the School of Archaeology at Shandong University. She is currently a visiting professor at the the Council on East Asian Studies\, MacMillian Center\, Yale University. \nRSVP BY MAY 8 \n
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