Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China - An Archaeological Investigation of Specialization in China's Three Gorges - Bok av Rowan K. (H
Examines the organization of specialized salt production at Zhongba, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Three Gorges of China's Yangzi River valley. Rowan K. Flad demonstrates that salt production emerged in the second millennium BCE and developed into a large-scale, intense activity.