New evidence for Bronze Age agricultural settlements in the Zhunge'er (Junggar) Basin, China

Journal of Field Archaeology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 269-280

  Jia, Peter Weiming ^a   Betts, Alison ^a   Wu, Xinhua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Agricultural settlements; Bronze Age chronology; China; Nomadic pastoralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 82055190770     PISSN: 00934690     EISSN: 20424582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/009346911X13140904382057     Document Type: Review

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