1. What was Liangzhu? 2. The Background and Driving Factors behind the Formation of Liangzhu Culture 1. Climactic Events at 5500 BP, and a Revolution in the Economic Model 2. Settlement Dispersal and Migration 3. Earliest Liangzhu 1. How the Platform Settlement Model Formed 2. A Dense Spread of Scattered Settlements 3. Formation of Village Regions 4. Settlement Rank and Society 1. Changes in the Structure and Organizational Relationships of Base Settlements 2. Second-Rank Settlement Structure and Analysis 3. Structure and Analysis of Primary-Rank Settlements 5. Power and Belief