The archaeology of early China : from prehistory to the Han Dynasty /
This volume aims to satisfy a pressing need for an updated account of Chinese archaeology. The volume's time frame extends from the earliest peopling of China to the unification of the Chinese empire some 2,000 years ago. The spatial coverage includes, but also extends beyond, the traditional f...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The geographic and environmental background
- 2. Before cultivation : human origins and the incipient development of human culture in China
- 3. The transition to food production : variability and processes
- 4. The development of agriculture and sedentary life in north China
- 5. The shift to agriculture and sedentism in central and south China
- 6. The emergence and development of sociopolitical complexity
- 7. Stepping into history
- 8. The Shang dynasty : the emergence of the state in China
- 9. Regional variation and interregional interactions during the Bronze Age : "center and periphery" or "interaction spheres"?
- 10. The societies and cultures of the Zhou period : processes of globalization and the genesis of local identities
- 11. The Son of Heaven and the creation of a bureaucratic empire
- By way of a personal conclusion : the jade dragon as an emblem of local and national idenity.