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Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China: An Archaeological Investigation of Specialization in China's Three Gorges
Flad, Rowan K. (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China: An Archaeological Investigation of Specialization in China's Three Gorges
Flad, Rowan K. (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
Examines the organization of specialized salt production at Zhongba, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Three Gorges of China's Yangzi River valley. Rowan K. Flad demonstrates that salt production emerged in the second millennium BCE and developed into a large-scale, intense activity.
312 pages, 71 b/w illus. 2 maps 15 tables
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | July 18, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9781107009417 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Dimensions | 159 × 236 × 21 mm · 576 g |