Chinese Neolithic Trajectories to Early States

Name: Chinese Neolithic Trajectories to Early States
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ISBN: 9780521811842

ISBN-10: 0521811848

ISBN-13: 9780521811842

Edition: 2004

Authors: Li Liu, Wendy Ashmore, Clive Gamble, John O'Shea, Colin Renfrew

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This book studies the formation of complex societies in prehistoric China during the Neolithic and early state periods, ca. 7000-1500 BC. Archaeological materials are interpreted through anthropological perspectives, using systematic analytic methods in settlement and burial patterns. Both agency and process are considered in the development of chiefdoms and in the emergence of early states in the Yellow River region. Interrelationships between factors such as mortuary practice, craft specialization, ritual activities, warfare, exchange of elite goods, climatic fluctuations, and environmental changes are emphasised. This study offers a critical evaluation of current archaeological data from…

Book details

List price: $121.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/6/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 330
Size: 7.17" wide x 10.04" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of tables


Preface



Setting the scene



The changing environmental contexts of China's first complex societies



Household subsistence and ritual



Spatial organization and social relations in communities



Community burial patterns



Development and decline of complex societies in the Central Plains



Development and decline of social complexity beyond the Central Plains



Trajectories toward early states



Reconstructing social processes


Notes


Appendixes


References


Index