Rediscovering the settlement system of the 'Dian' kingdom, in Bronze Age southern China

Antiquity

Volumn 86, Issue 332, 2012, Pages 353-367

  Yao, Alice ^a   Zhilong, Jiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; Dian; First millennium BC; Landscape survey; Settlement hierarchy; South China; Yizhou; Yunnan province

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861692549     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00062815     Document Type: Article

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