China’s oldest water pipes were a communal effort

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 centralised state authority, finds a new study by Dr Yijie Zhuang (UCL Institute of Archaeology).

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