Regional Archaeology in Eastern Inner Mongolia

• Preface I by Zhang Bai Preface II by Zhang Zhongpei Preface III by Katheryn M. Linduff Introduction by Chifeng International Collaborative Archeological Research Project Changing Patterns of Settlement Distribution in the Chifeng Region by Teng Mingyu, Ta La, Zhu Yanping, Guo Zhizhong, Gideon Shelach, Robert D. Drennan, Katheryn L. Linduff Methods for Archeological Settlement Study by Robert D. Drennan, Teng Mingyu, Christian E. Peterson, Gideon Shelach, Gregory G. Indrisano, Zhu Yanping, Katheryn M. Linduff, Guo Zhizhong, and Manual A. Román-Lacayo Approaches to Regional Demographic Reconstruction by Robert D. Drennan, Christian E. Peterson, Gregory G. Indrisano, Teng Mingyu, Gideon Shelach, Zhu Yanping, Katheryn M. Linduff, and Guo Zhizhong Using and Improving Regional Analysis by Gideon Shelach and Chifeng International Collaborative Archeological Research Project Acknowledgments References Cited

From Reference and Research Book News. . .'Scholars and students from China, the U.S., and Israel present maps and discussion of changing settlement patterns across seven thousand years in an intensively surveyed 765-square-kilometer area. The Chifeng region lies near the traditional frontier between the settled agricultural zone of the Yellow River basin and the varied, sometimes mobile, pastoral, and agricultural adaptations of Eurasia. Beginning in 6000 B.C., it saw the development of sedentary farming, the emergence of Hongshan chiefdoms, the consolidation and dissolution of Lower Xiajiadian petty states, and eventual Han imperial domination. The focus is on field and analytical methods for reconstructing ancient populations and their distributions. The text appears in both English and Chinese.'