Radiocarbon dates and technological change in salt production at the site of Zhongba in the Three Gorges, China

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 149-181

  Flad, Rowan K ^a   Wu, Xiaohong ^b   Von Falkenhausen, Lothar ^c   Li, Shuicheng ^b   Sun, Zhibin ^d   Chen, Pochan ^e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

China; Radiocarbon; Salt production; Technological change; Three Gorges; Yangzi river; Zhongba

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; CHRONOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SALT; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

CHINA; CHONGQING; THREE GORGES; YANGTZE RIVER; ZHONGBA;

EID: 75949093634     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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