Yuhuangmiao: the socio-cultural dynamics of a community between the steppes and the Chinese plains.

ABSTRACT: The Yuhuangmiao culture emerged around the 7th to the 4th centuries BCE in northeastern China near Beijing. The burial ritual with stone layers, numerous animal deposits, and the material culture indicate a strong steppe connection. It is often used to support the narratives in the Chinese historical texts that people living in the area had a distinctive lifestyle from those in the southern, agricultural-based communities and that the two groups often had a hostile relationship. Based on the cemetery of Yuhuangmiao, we focus in our case study on the socio-cultural dynamics over time in communities of a small region between the steppes and the Chinese Central Plains and in confrontation with very different neighbors to the south and the northwest. We use a seriation and correspondence-based

SUBMITTER: Huan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11652592 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature