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The quoted passage directly states the earlier accessibility association and its later weakening with a shift toward intermediate-accessibility settings. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Topographic accessibility and proto-urban settlement organization in Neolithic China · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:512eef2625cbbbdc949ffc7afa01b1fc7ce2af2646cb948d807a81a2c6b4ce6f

Settlement intensity became increasingly concentrated along accessible corridors between 5000 and 2500 BCE. Between 2500 and 2000 BCE, this association weakened sharply, although spatial clustering remained strong and the principal concentration of settlements shifted toward intermediate-accessibility settings.