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published in the Calcutta Asiatic Society journals and proceedings. He edited a large number of inscriptions for Epigraphia Indica (see vols. 15, 16, 18, 19), and the range of his edited inscriptions was chronologically and geographically wide. His mastery of the primary sources of ancient India led him to a study of its political history, and one of his books on the subject is The Age of the Imperial Guptas (1933). He wrote extensively in his mother tongue, Bengali, even writing a large number of historical novels with themes selected from ancient India.
See also
Indus Civilization; South Asia
Excavated between 1954 and 1957, the Neolithic village of Banpo is a short drive from Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi Province in central china. Banpo has great significance in the history of Chinese archaeology for several reasons. First, the well-preserved remains of houses, ditches, and burials and the large number of artifacts that were found during excavation make this a type site for the Yangshao phase of the early Chinese Neolithic period (about 5000 b.c. to 4000 b.c.).
Second, the site was interpreted as providing clear evidence of the existence of a matrilineal society during the Neolithic period, an interpretation that accorded very well with the analysis of precapitalist societies put forward by Friedrich Engels (ca. 1884) in his Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State and subsequent Marxist ideological interpretations encouraged by the Chinese Communist Party. Third, the site was transformed into a major museum based around a building that completely enclosed a large portion of it, including different types of houses and burials. This major museum, which recently had a tourist village constructed adjacent to it, continues to play a significant role in informing the Chinese people about life in Neolithic China.
References
Chang, K.-C. 1986. The Archaeology of Ancient China. 4th ed., revised and enlarged. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
In 1836, one George Gresham built a water-powered sawmill and gristmill on Mackeys Creek in northeastern Mississippi, and in 1852, the Bay Springs Union Factory was built at the same location to spin cotton and wool raised locally. Unlike most textile mills of the period, the Bay Springs Mill spun yarn that local families knitted into socks and wove into cloth for themselves and for sale. The development of power looms in New England had largely made this kind of symbiosis impractical by 1820, but at Bay Springs this relic of the early years of industrialization continued operating until 1885 when the mill burned.
In 1979, a team of researchers led by William H. Adams investigated the mill and surrounding community, including a general store, a Masonic lodge, a barracks, nine farmhouses, six millworkers’ houses, and two other mill buildings. Much of the original equipment remained on the site, and Steven D. Smith, Timothy B. Riordan, and Albert F. Bartovics analyzed the archaeological remains. The historical geographer Howard Adkins researched the documentary history of this community, and the folklorists David F. Barton and Stephen Poyser interviewed over sixty people—their recordings are in the Library of Congress, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and the Indiana University Folklore Archives. The community approach used at silcott, washington, and waverly plantation was used at Bay Springs as well to provide a broader historical context for the material recovered. The study of commodity flows by Riordan and Adams provides a model for quantifying material culture within the context of the national market.
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Beazley was born in Glasgow, the son of a member of the Arts and Crafts movement, so it is perhaps not surprising that he was to be fascinated by craftsmen and artists for most of his life. He attended Balliol and Christ Church Colleges at Oxford, where he later became Lincoln
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