This volume aims to satisfy a pressing need for an updated account of Chinese archaeology. It covers an extended time period from the earliest peopling of China to the unification of the Chinese Empire some two thousand years ago. The geographical coverage includes the traditional focus on the Yellow River basin but also covers China's many other regions. Among the topics covered are the emergence of agricultural communities; the establishment of a sedentary way of life; the development of sociopolitical complexity; advances in lithic technology, ceramics, and metallurgy; and the appearance of writing, large-scale public works, cities, and states. Particular emphasis is placed on the great cultural variations that existed among the different regions and the development of interregional contacts among those societies.
Author(s): Gideon Shelach-Lavi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 392
Binder1
frontmatter
2-dedication
Blank Page
3-contents
4-figures
5-acknowledgments
6-introduction
chapter 1-geographic_and_environmental_background
Chapter 2-before_cultivation_human_origins_and_the_incipient_development_of_human_culture_in_china
Chapter 3-transition_to_food_production_variability_and_processes
Chapter 4-development_of_agriculture_and_sedentary_life_in_north_china
Chapter 5-shift_to_agriculture_and_sedentism_in_central_and_south_china
Chapter 6-emergence_and_development_of_sociopolitical_complexity
Chapter 7-stepping_into_history
Chapter 8-shang_dynasty_the_emergence_of_the_state_in_china
Chapter 9-regional_variation_and_interregional_interactions_during_the_bronze_age_center_and_periphery_or_interaction_spheres
Chapter 10-societies_and_cultures_of_the_zhou_period_processes_of_globalization_and_the_genesis_of_local_identities
Chapter 11-son_of_heaven_and_the_creation_of_a_bureaucratic_empire
Conclusion
1-notes
2-references
3-index
