| Abstract: |
This paper is concerned with animal husbandry strategies based on age profiles of pigs from a large middle Yangshao site at Xipo in Lingbao county, western Henan province, China. The age structures for pigs show a wide range of age distribution, suggesting that a self-sufficient subsistence economy may have taken place at this site. It is likely that specialized animal production and consumption did not occur in such an emergent complex society. It seems reasonable to suggest that changes in animal husbandry from self-sufficiency towards more specialized production took place in central China in more complex societies.
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