The Historical and Cultural Context of Liangzhu: Redefining a Relationship of Equals Between Human Beings and Nature (Paperback)
1. What was Liangzhu?
2. The Background and Driving Factors behind the Formation of Liangzhu Culture
1. Climactic Events at 5500 BP, and a Revolution in the Economic Model
2. Settlement Dispersal and Migration
3. Earliest Liangzhu
1. How the Platform Settlement Model Formed
2. A Dense Spread of Scattered Settlements
3. Formation of Village Regions
4. Settlement Rank and Society
1. Changes in the Structure and Organizational Relationships of Base Settlements
2. Second-Rank Settlement Structure and Analysis
3. Structure and Analysis of Primary-Rank Settlements
5. Power and Belief
Ningyuan Wang is a researcher at Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. Having completed his studies at the School of History, Nanjing University, his main research interest is in archaeology. He has led several archaeological excavation projects in, e.g. Xianmiaotan, Haiyan county, Yaojiashan, Jiaxing city and Zhili, Anji county. He is currently responsible for the long-term research excavation of a peripheral drainage system at the Liangzhu historical site. In addition, he has published extensively in his field, including The Remote Village - Settlements and Inhabitation Pattern of Liangzhu Culture and From Village to Royal City.