The Archaeology of China: From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age PDF
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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CHINA This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advanc- ing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Overaperiodofabout10,000years,itfollowsevolutionarytrajectories of society from the last Paleolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithicfarmingvillages,andontotheBronzeAgeShangdynastyin thelatterhalfofthesecondmillenniumBC.LiLiuandXingcanChen demonstrate that sociopolitical evolution was multicentric and shaped by interpolity factionalism and competition, as well as by the many material technologies introduced from other parts of the world. The bookillustrateshowancientChinesesocietiesweretransformedduring this period from simple to complex, tribal to urban, and preliterate to literate. LiLiuisSirRobertHoTungProfessorinChineseArchaeologyinthe DepartmentofEastAsianLanguagesandCulturesatStanfordUniversity. Sheistheauthoroftwobooks,TheChineseNeolithic:TrajectoriestoEarly States and (with Xingcan Chen) State Formation in Early China, as well asmorethanseventyjournalarticlesinbothEnglishandChinese. Xingcan Chen is Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as well as ProfessorintheDepartmentofArchaeology,GraduateSchool,Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including The History of Chinese Prehistoric Archaeology (1895– 1949), Essays on Archaeology, and (with Li Liu) State Formation in Early China. CAMBRIDGE WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY series editor NORMAN YOFFEE, UniversityofNevada,LasVegas editorial board SUSAN ALCOCK, BrownUniversity TOM DILLEHAY, VanderbiltUniversity STEPHEN SHENNAN, UniversityCollege,London CARLA SINOPOLI, UniversityofMichigan DAVID WENGROW, UniversityCollege,London The Cambridge World Archaeology series is addressed to students and professionalarchaeologists,andtoacademicsinrelateddisciplines.Most volumes present a survey of the archaeology of a region of the world, providinganup-to-dateaccountofresearchandintegratingrecentfind- ings with new concerns of interpretation. While the focus is on a spe- cific region, broader cultural trends are discussed and the implications of regional findings for cross-cultural interpretations considered. The authors also bring anthropological and historical expertise to bear on archaeological problems and show how both new data and changing intellectualtrendsinarchaeologyshapeinferencesaboutthepast.More recently,theserieshasexpandedtoincludethematicvolumes. recent books in the series stephen d. houston and takeshi inomata, TheClassicMaya philip l. kohl, TheMakingofBronzeAgeEurasia lawrence barham and peter mitchell, TheFirstAfricans robin dennell, ThePalaeolithicSettlementofAsia christopher pool, OlmecArchaeologyandEarlyMesoamerica samuel m. wilson, TheArchaeologyoftheCaribbean richard bradley, ThePrehistoryofBritain ludmila koryakova and andrej epimakhov, TheUralsandWestern SiberiaintheBronzeandIronAges david wengrow, TheArchaeologyofEarlyEgypt paul rainbird, TheArchaeologyofMicronesia peter m. m. g. akkermansa and glenn m. schwartz, The ArchaeologyofSyria timothy insoll, TheArchaeologyofIslaminSub-SaharanAfrica cambridge world archaeology THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CHINA From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age li liu Stanford University xingcan chen Chinese Academy of Social Sciences cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521644327 (cid:2)C LiLiuandXingcanChen2012 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2012 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Liu,Li,1953December12– ThearchaeologyofChina:fromthelatepaleolithictotheearlybronzeage/LiLiu, XingcanChen. pagescm. (Cambridgeworldarchaeology) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-0-521-64310-8(hardback) 1.Prehistoricpeoples–China. 2.Archaeology–China–History–20thcentury. 3.Antiquities,Prehistoric–China. I.Chen,Xingcan. II.Title. gn855.c6l64 2012 931–dc23 2011052557 isbn978-0-521-64310-8Hardback isbn978-0-521-64432-7Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsfor externalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublicationanddoesnot guaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Dedicated to Professor Kwang-chih Chang If we have been able to see further, it was only because we stood on the shoulders of giants.
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