Death Pollution as Contagion Chain in Early Daoist Archaeology
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 17_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_II_v2_5.md.
Research layers
Section titled “Research layers”Layer 1: Death Pollution as Contagion Chain in Early Daoist Archaeology
Section titled “Layer 1: Death Pollution as Contagion Chain in Early Daoist Archaeology”Source file:
17_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_II_v2_5.md
Terms recorded in scholarship include forms such as:
- zhu;
- repeated/recurrent zhu;
- linked zhu;
- transmitted zhu.
Conceptual model
Section titled “Conceptual model”death → dangerous transmission → descendants/community → ritual severance.
Research programme
Section titled “Research programme”For each excavated bottle:
- site;
- date;
- tomb occupant;
- bottle position;
- inscription;
- talisman;
- contents;
- invoked officials;
- command formula;
- intended severance.