Piecing Together Sha Po : Archaeological Investigations and Landscape Reconstruction.
Hong Kong boasts a number of rich archaeological sites behind sandy bays. Among these backbeaches is Sha Po on Lamma Island, a site which has long captured the attention of archaeologists. However, until now no comprehensive study of the area has ever been published. Piecing Together Sha Po presents...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Aberdeen :
Hong Kong University Press,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Hong Kong boasts a number of rich archaeological sites behind sandy bays. Among these backbeaches is Sha Po on Lamma Island, a site which has long captured the attention of archaeologists. However, until now no comprehensive study of the area has ever been published. Piecing Together Sha Po presents the first sustained analysis, framed in terms of a multi-period social landscape, of the varieties of human activity in Sha Po spanning more than 6,000 years. Synthesising decades of earlier fieldwork together with Atha and Yip's own extensive excavations conducted in 2008-2010, the discoveries col. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (279 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-256) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789888313952 9888313959 |