A Companion to Chinese Archaeology

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Anne P. Underhill
John Wiley & Sons, Feb 26, 2013 - Social Science - 664 pages
A Companion to Chinese Archaeology is an unprecedented, new resource on the current state of archaeological research in one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It presents a collection of readings from leading archaeologists in China and elsewhere that provide diverse interpretations about social and economic organization during the Neolithic period and early Bronze Age.

  • An unprecedented collection of original contributions from international scholars and collaborative archaeological teams conducting research on the Chinese mainland and Taiwan
  • Makes available for the first time in English the work of leading archaeologists in China
  • Provides a comprehensive view of research in key geographic regions of China
  • Offers diverse methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding China’s past, beginning with the era of established agricultural villages from c. 7000 B.C. through to the end of the Shang dynastic period in c. 1045 B.C.
 

Contents

Series page
Notes on Translators and Other Assistants
Despoiled of the Garments of
Earlier Neolithic Economic and Social
Understanding Hongshan Period Social
The Lower Xiaiiadian Culture of the Western
The iia Culture of the U er Yellow River
The Sichuan Basin Neolithic
Recent Discoveries and Some Thoughts
Archaeology of Shanxi During the Yinxu
The Houli and Beixin Cultures
The Dawenkou Culture in the Lower Yellow
The Longshan Culture of Shandong
A Study of Lian Sickles and Dao Knives
The Eastern Territories of the Shang
The Pengtoushan Culture in the Middle

The Baodun Culture
The Sanxingdui Culture of the Sichuan Basin
The Early Neolithic in the Central Yellow
The Jiahu Site in the Huai River Area
The Later Neolithic Period in the Central
The Longshan Culture in Central Henan
The Longshan Period Site of Taosi
Production of Ground Stone Tools at Taosi
The Erlitou Culture
The Discovery and Study of the Early
Penod
The uialin Shiiahe Culture in the Middle
The Kuahuqiao Site and Culture
Recent Research on the Hemudu Culture
The Liangzhu Culture
The Neolithic Archaeology of Southeast
First Farmers and Their Coastal Adaptation
Index
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Anne P. Underhill is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University, and a Curator in the Anthropology Division at the Yale Peabody Museum. She initiated one of the first Sino-American collaborative archaeology projects in China and is the author of Craft Production and Social Change in Northern China.

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