The Yellow River valley of China, during the period ca. 7000-1500, saw the transformation of egalitarian societies into stratified chiefdoms giving rise to early states. This book examines that transformation, emphasizing the interplay of many factors affecting these processes, such as climatic fluctuation, population movements, inter-group competition, warfare, and long-distance exchange of valuables.
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"The Chinese Neolithic is a major achievement. The book presents a coherent and methodologically quite sophisticated vision of the late prehistory of the middle and lower Yellow River basin...Liu's compelling investigation into the precursors of the early Chinese dynasties elicits great admiration." - Lothar von Falkenhausen, University of California, Los Angelos Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
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The Yellow River valley of China, during the period ca. 7000-1500, saw the transformation of egalitarian societies into stratified chiefdoms giving rise to early states. This book examines that transformation, emphasising the interplay of many factors affecting these processes, such as climatic fluctuation, population movements, inter-group competition, warfare, and long-distance exchange of valuables. This book contains detailed archaeological data and general theoretical paradigms. It offers a comprehensive reconstruction of developmental trajectories toward social complexity during the Neolithic period, and locates prehistoric China within a global framework of social evolution.
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Excellent volume focused on Pre-Xia Chinese history.,
By Fang Ruofu "Ralph" (Irvine, California and Kaifeng, Henan, China) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States (New Studies in Archaeology) (Hardcover)
Comprehensive text focusing on Pre-Xia Chinese history. This text is actually a slim 300 page volume and best-of-all is available in a .pdf version that is easy to travel with. Text is missing Chinese characters to supplement the Hanyu Pinyin for Chinese terms.
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There is no need to emphasize the significance of Chinese civilization, which produced one of the few pristine states in the world nearly four thousand year ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ercengtai ledge, mortuary hierarchy, alligator drums, possible minor center, yizhi diaocha, pottery file, yizhi shijue jianbao, burial stratification, xinshiqi shidai yizhi, yizhi fajue baogao, fajue jianbao, palatial area, average catchment area, wenhua yizhi, burial variability, deer tusks, burial size, ding cauldron, constructing national history, pottery goblets, walled sites, grave size, palatial compound, pig mandibles, chubu yanjiu Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yellow River, Wei River, Central Plains, Institute of Archaeology, Henan Institute, National Bureau, Shanxi Team, Neolithic China, Xi'an Banpo Museum, Wang Qing, Bronze Age, East Asian, Shandong Institute, Bohai Bay, Central Asian, Zhang Xuehai, Eastern Zhou, Three Dynasties, Zhao Xitao, Gansu Museum, Shandong Longshan, Gao Wei, Inner Mongolia, Jing River, Shandong University New!
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There is no need to emphasize the significance of Chinese civilization, which produced one of the few pristine states in the world nearly four thousand year ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ercengtai ledge, mortuary hierarchy, alligator drums, possible minor center, yizhi diaocha, pottery file, yizhi shijue jianbao, burial stratification, xinshiqi shidai yizhi, yizhi fajue baogao, fajue jianbao, palatial area, average catchment area, wenhua yizhi, burial variability, deer tusks, burial size, ding cauldron, constructing national history, pottery goblets, walled sites, grave size, palatial compound, pig mandibles, chubu yanjiu Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yellow River, Wei River, Central Plains, Institute of Archaeology, Henan Institute, National Bureau, Shanxi Team, Neolithic China, Xi'an Banpo Museum, Wang Qing, Bronze Age, East Asian, Shandong Institute, Bohai Bay, Central Asian, Zhang Xuehai, Eastern Zhou, Three Dynasties, Zhao Xitao, Gansu Museum, Shandong Longshan, Gao Wei, Inner Mongolia, Jing River, Shandong University New!
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- Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World (New Directions in Archaeology) by Elizabeth M. Brumfiel on 5 pages
- Archaic States (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) by Gary M. Feinman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rethinking the Neolithic (New Studies in Archaeology) by Julian Thomas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Archaeological Method and Theory (Archaeological Method & Theory) by Michael B. Schiffer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Anthropology of War (School of American Research Advanced Seminars) by Jonathan Haas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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