Population dynamics and imperial expansion in eastern Shandong (China) during the last millennium BCE

Z Wang, GM Feinman, LM Nicholas, H Fang - Archaeological Research in …, 2024 - Elsevier
We examine the long-term history of eastern Shandong, China, with a focus on shifts in
settlement patterns. We expand on prior work where our focus was a series of basins on the …

Landscapes of production, production of meaning: Salt infrastructure and environmental history in imperial Rome and Han China

DM Totten - Journal of Social Archaeology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
I investigate the material characteristics and spatial contexts of saltpans in two of antiquity's
most successful empires—Rome and Han China. Production strategies made salt widely …