Download or read book Settlement Patterns in the Chifeng Region written by Chifeng International Collaborative Archaeological Research Project and published by Center for Comparative Arch. This book was released on 2011 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume and the accompanying online dataset provide the complete results of a regional settlement study of 1,234 square kilometers in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of northeastern China. Results of systematic study of the relationship between surface and subsurface remains are presented, based on sites that were surveyed as part of the regional survey, and subsequently intensively surface collected and test excavated. The volume concludes with a comprehensive synthesis of the regional trajectory of social change from 6000 BCE to 1300 CE, offered as a basis for comparison with those of other regions where complex societies developed.