THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTHEAST CHINA THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTHEAST CHINA Beyond the Great Wall Edited by Sarah Milledge Nelson London and New York First published 1995 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 ? 1995 Sarah Milledge Nelson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The Archaeology of Northeast China: Beyond the Great Wall edited by Sarah Milledge Nelsonp. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Manchuria (China)—Antiquities. I. Nelson, Sarah M. 1995931–dc20 94–9966 ISBN 0-203-42987-7 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-73811-X (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-11755-0 (Print Edition) v CONTENTS List of figures vii List of tables xi List of contributors xii Acknowledgements xiii INTRODUCTION 1 Sarah Part I Neolithic 1 HONGSHAN AND RELATED CULTURES 21 Guo Da-shun 2 THE HOUWA SITE AND RELATED ISSUES 65 Xu Yu-lin 3 RECENT NEOLITHIC DISCOVERIES IN JILIN PROVINCE 89 Liu Zhen-hua 4 THE NEOLITHIC IN HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE 118 Tan Ying-jie, Sun Xiu-ren, Zhao Hong-guang, and Gan Zhi-geng Part II Bronze Age 5 LOWER XIAJIADIAN CULTURE 147 Guo Da-shun 6 “NORTHERN-TYPE” BRONZE ARTIFACTS UNEARTHED IN THE LIAONING REGION, AND RELATED ISSUES 182 Guo Da-shun 7 BRONZE CULTURE IN JILIN PROVINCE 206 Liu Jing-wen CONTENTS vi 8 THE BRONZE AGE OF THE SONG-NEN PLAIN 225 Tan Ying-jie, Sun Xiu-ren, Zhao Hong-guang, and Gan