Li Liu, Xingcan Chen

The Archaeology of China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1123g
• ISBN-13: 9780521643108
• ISBN-10: 0521643104
• Artikelnr.: 40870852

Autorenporträt

Professor LIU Li is President of Beijing Language and Culture University and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Language Education Foundation. He specializes in the teaching and research of ancient Chinese, Chinese grammar and history of Chinese grammar and vocabulary.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Chinese archaeology: past, present, and future
2. Environment and ecology
3. Foragers and collectors in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (24,000-9000 cal. BP)
4. Domestication of plants and animals
5. Neolithization: sedentism and food production in the Early Neolithic (7000-5000 BC)
6. Emergence of social inequality: the Middle Neolithic (5000-3000 BC)
7. Rise and fall of early complex societies: the Late Neolithic (3000-2000 BC)
8. Formation of early states in the Central Plain: Erlitou and Erligang (1900/1800-1250 BC)
9. Bronze cultures of the north frontiers and beyond during the early second millennium BC
10. The Late Shang dynasty and its neighbors (1250-1046 BC)
11. Chinese civilization in comparative perspective.