Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables Abstract
Acknowledgements
Main Text
Appendix
Bibliography
Chapter 1 Background and Research Questions .................... 1
1.1 The Taosi site and the Taosi culture ....................... 2
1.2 Current studies on the Taosi culture ....................... 9
1.3 Current studies on stone tools in Neolithic China ......... 12
1.4 Current studies on Early Chinese urbanism ................. 13
1.5 Main research issues addressed in this study .............. 14
Chapter 2 Theories and Methods ................................ 17
2.1 City and urbanisation ..................................... 17
2.2 Craft production .......................................... 21
2.3 Methods ................................................... 28
2.4 Summary ................................................... 31
Chapter 3 Lithic Artefacts from Previous Excavations at Taosi
and Mount Dagudui .............................................. 32
3.1 Lithic assemblage from previous excavations at Taosi ...... 32
3.2 Lithic assemblage from the Mount Dagudui site ............. 38
3.3 Chronology of Mount Dagudui ............................... 48
Chapter 4 Lithic Artefacts from the 2008 Surface Survey and
Test Excavations at Taosi ...................................... 52
4.1 Methodology applied in the field work ..................... 52
4.2 Test excavations .......................................... 53
4.3 Artefacts uncovered during the survey ..................... 58
4.4 Raw materials ............................................. 66
4.5 Conclusion ................................................ 69
Chapter 5 Replication Experiments of Stone Tool Manufacture ... 71
5.1 Experiments on ground stones .............................. 71
5.2 Experiment design ......................................... 72
5.3 Experiment procedure ...................................... 73
5.4 Conclusion ................................................ 82
5.5 Summary ................................................... 88
Chapter 6 Raw Material Selection and Technology of Lithic
Production ..................................................... 90
6.1 The strategy of raw material selection during the Taosi
Culture ................................................... 91
6.2 Technology of lithic production at Taosi .................. 95
6.3 Lithic production and cost benefit analysis .............. 104
6.4 Summary .................................................. 107
Chapter 7 Production Capacity, Exchange and Organisation of
Production .................................................... 108
7.1 The production capacity of the stone tools at Taosi:
a trial .................................................. 108
7.2 Exchange of stone tools in the Linfen Basin .............. 114
7.3 The organisation of lithic production at Taosi ........... 118
7.4 Summary .................................................. 127
Chapter 8 Conclusion ......................................... 128
8.1 Specialisation of lithic production at Taosi ............. 128
8.2 Contributions of lithic production to the economy at
Taosi .................................................... 131
8.3 Lithic production and social complexity at Taosi ......... 137
8.4 Taosi and early urbanisation in China .................... 142
8.5 Directions for further research .......................... 148
Appendix
Appendix I The features in the four terraces test
excavated at Taosi in 2008 ...................... 149
Appendix II Raw materials of the stone tools from the
storeroom of CASS at Taosi ...................... 150
Appendix III The published lithic artefacts from Taosi ....... 151
Appendix IV Samples of flakes discovered at Taosi in 2008 ... 154
Appendix V The stone tools discovered at Taosi based on
previous reports ................................ 158
Appendix VI The lithic blanks, preforms and tools uncovered
at Taosi in 2008 ................................ 161
Appendix VII The metric data of the spear-shaped blank
samples from Dagudui ............................ 163
Appendix VIII The details of the flake samples from Dagudui
(on disc)
Appendix IX The database of the replication experiments
(on disc)
Appendix X The petrographic identification of the lithic
samples from Taosi and the Mount Dagudui
quarry (on disc)
Bibliography .................................................. 166
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