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  Title

  The archaeology of China : from the late paleolithic to the early bronze age

  Author

  Liu, Li, 1953 December 12-  

  Publisher:

  Cambridge University Press,

  Pub date:

  2012.

  Pages:

  xxii, 475 pages :

  ISBN:

  9780521643108

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    GN855 .C6 L64 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780521643108 (hardback)

  ISBN:

  0521643104 (hardback)

  ISBN:

  9780521644327 (pbk.)

  ISBN:

  0521644321 (pbk.)

  029:

  DEBSZ 360003648

  Personal Author:

  Liu, Li, 1953 December 12-

  Title:

  The archaeology of China : from the late paleolithic to the early bronze age / Li Liu, Stanford University, Xingcan Chen, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

  Publication info:

  Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

  Physical description:

  xxii, 475 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

  336:

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  Series Statement:

  (Cambridge world archaeology)

  Contents:

  Chinese archaeology : past, present, and future -- Environment and ecology -- Foragers and collectors in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (24,000-9000 cal. BP) -- Domestication of plants and animals -- Neolithization : sedentism and food production in the early Neolithic (7000-5000 BC) -- Emergence of social inequality : the middle Neolithic (5000-3000 BC) -- Rise and fall of early complex societies : the late Neolithic (3000-2000 BC) -- Formation of early states in the Central Plain : Erlitou and Erligang (1900/1800-1250 BC) -- Bronze cultures of the northern frontiers and beyond during the early second millennium BC -- The late Shang dynasty and its neighbors (1250-1046 BC) -- Chinese civilization in comparative perspective -- Appendix. Horse bones in faunal assemblages from Neolithic and early Bronze Age sites in north China.

  Summary:

  "Past, present and future "The archaeological materials recovered from the Anyang excavations ... in the period between 1928 and 1937...have laid a new foundation for the study of ancient China (Li, C. 1977: ix)." When inscribed oracle bones and enormous material remains were found through scientific excavation in Anyang in 1928, the historicity of the Shang dynasty was confirmed beyond dispute for the first time (Li, C. 1977: ix-xi). This excavation thus marked the beginning of a modern Chinese archaeology endowed with great potential to reveal much of China's ancient history.. Half a century later, Chinese archaeology had made many unprecedented discoveries which surprised the world, leading Glyn Daniel to believe that "a new awareness of the importance of China will be a key development in archaeology in the decades ahead (Daniel 1981: 211). This enthusiasm was soon shared by the Chinese archaeologists when Su Bingqi announced that "the Golden Age of Chinese archaeology is arriving (Su, B. 1994: 139--140)". In recent decades, archaeology has continuously prospered, becoming one of the most rapidly developing fields in social science in China"-- Provided by publisher.

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  Subject term:

  Prehistoric peoples--China.

  Subject term:

  Archaeology--China--History--20th century.

  Subject term:

  Antiquities, Prehistoric--China.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Chen, Xingcan.

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