Lu, Peng;
Du, Xin;
Chen, Panpan;
Liu, Qingbin;
Zhuang, Yijie;
Tian, Yan;
Hu, Yayi;
... Mo, Duowen; + view all
(2025)
Prehistoric water control works in the Loess Plateau: an ancient ditch system at Shuanghuaishu, China.
Antiquity
10.15184/aqy.2025.10186.
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Abstract
The emergence, on the Loess Plateau of Central China, of settlements enclosed by circular ditches has engendered lively debate about the function of these (often extensive) ditch systems. Here, the authors report on a suite of new dates and sedimentological analyses from the late Yangshao (5300–4800 BP) triple-ditch system at the Shuanghuaishu site, Henan Province. Exploitation of natural topographic variations, and evidence for ditch maintenance and varied water flows, suggests a key function in hydrological management, while temporal overlap in the use of these three ditches reveals the large scale of this endeavour to adapt to the pressures of the natural environment.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Prehistoric water control works in the Loess Plateau: an ancient ditch system at Shuanghuaishu, China |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2025.10186 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10186 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216443 |
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