Ref ID:	31814
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Fung, Christopher
Title:	The drinks are on us: ritual, social status, and practice in Dawenkou burials, north china
Date:	2000
Source:	Journal of East Asian Archaeology
Abstract:	This paper investigates mortuary remains as the material component of past ritual behavior in the Neolithic Dawenkou Culture of North China. By examining the ritual function of ceramic burial goods and their spatial relationships within graves, the author argues that an ideology of competitive funerary ritual developed in Dawenkou and society during the period 5000-2500 B.C. Such an ideology may have been a contributing factor in the development of social complexity in northern coastal China.
Date Created:	10/19/2003
Volume:	2
Page Start:	67
Page End:	92