Emergent Social Complexity in the Yangshao Culture : Analyses of settlement patterns and faunal remains from Lingbau Western Henan China (c. 4900-3000 BC)

Address the question of the emergence of social complexity in the Yangshao culture (ca. 4900-3000 BC) in Central China based on analysis of settlement patterns and faunal remains from Lingbao, western Henan. A total of 31 Neolithic sites have been found along two rivers during a regional survey in 1999.