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Environment and culture change in Neolithic Southeast China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tianlong Jiao
Tianlong Jiao*
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*Department of Anthropology, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817, USA
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How did the Neolithic begin and develop in Southeast China? The author uses a highly detailed sequence of changes in sea-level, climate and vegetation to provide the back-drop – and some explanations – for the distinctive maritime community of the Taiwan Strait, whose descendants are thought to have colonised the Pacific.

Keywords

NeolithicSoutheast Chinaancient environment
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 80 , Issue 309 , 1 September 2006 , pp. 615 - 621
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2006

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