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The archaeology of China : from the late paleolithic to the early bronze age /

This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Liu, Li, 1953 December 12- (Autor), Chen, Xingcan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge world archaeology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chinese archaeology: past, present, and future
  • Environment and ecology
  • Foragers and collectors in the Pleistocene-Holocene transistion (24,000-9000 Cal. BP)
  • Domestication of plants and animals
  • Neolithization: sedentism and food production in the Early Neolithic (7000-5000 BC)
  • Emergence of social inequality
  • the Middle Neolithic (5000-3000 BC)
  • Rise and fall of early complex societies: the Late Neolithic (3000-2000 BC)
  • Formation of early states in the central plain: Erlitou and Erligang (1900/1800-1250 BC)
  • Bronze cultures of the northern frontiers and beyond during the early second millennium BC
  • The late Shang Dynasty and its neighbors (1250-1046 BC)
  • Chinise civilization in comparative perspective
  • Appendix: Horse bones in faunal assemblages from Neolithic and early Bronze Age sites in North China.