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The Chinese neolithic : trajectories to early states /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Li
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2004]
Series:New studies in archaeology.
Subjects:
Neolithic period > China.
Antiquities, Prehistoric > China.
China > Antiquities.
Néolithique > Chine.
Antiquités préhistoriques > Chine.
Chine > Antiquités.
Neolithikum.
China.
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene
  • The changing environmental contexts of China's first complex societies
  • Household subsistence and ritual
  • Spatial organization and social relations in communities
  • Community burial patterns
  • Development and decline of complex societies in the Central Plains
  • Development and decline of social complexity beyond the Central Plains
  • Trajectories toward early states
  • Reconstructing social processes.