The Archaeology of China: From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age
ISBN: 9780521644327 | 0521644321
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 4/30/2012
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This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Paleolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages, and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second millennium BC.
| Chinese archaeology: past, present, and future | |
| Environment and ecology | |
| Foragers and collectors in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (24,000âÇô9000 cal. BP) | |
| Domestication of plants and animals | |
| Neolithization: sedentism and food production in the Early Neolithic (7000âÇô5000 BC) | |
| Emergence of social inequality: the Middle Neolithic (5000âÇô3000 BC) | |
| Rise and fall of early comple... MORE | |
| Formation of early states in the Central Plain: Erlitou and Erligang (1900/1800âÇô1250 BC) | |
| Bronze cultures of the north frontiers and beyond during the early second millennium BC | |
| The Late Shang dynasty and its neighbors (1250âÇô1046 BC) | |
| Chinese civilization in comparative perspective | |
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