Production of Stone Spades and Emergence of the First State in the Yiluo region, China by Li Liu, Xingcan Chen, John Webb

“…From this perspective, the social formation of early states in China was not only hierarchical (Liu and Chen 2003), but heterarchical at a regional level. Stonemasons at Huizui were most likely independent craftsmen, whom we know little about in the traditional archaeological record. …”
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