Charring AuhLiu Jiandong (right), shown here with former Field Museum curator Anne Underhill, creates Seces inspired by artifacts from the #Longshanperiod (c. 2600-1900 BC).
Liu Jiandong (right), shown here with former Field Museum curator Anne Underhill, creates Seces inspired by artifacts from the #Longshanperiod (c. 2600-1900 BC).
CompulsoryAccount7746"A system of [4,000 year-old] ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that #neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state authority […]
with stone age tools […] pipes run along roads and walls to divert rainwater [i.e., monsoon floods, to a surrounding moat] […] no signs of social stratification or significant inequality"
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-ancient-pipe-networks-communal.html
#Pingliangtai #LongshanPeriod #AncientChina #Archaeology
China's ancient water pipe networks show they were a communal effort with no evidence of a centralized state authority
A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state authority, finds a new study by University College London researchers.