Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents Summary for Volumes 1, 2 and 3
- Contents
- Volume 1 Maps
- Volume 2 Maps
- Volume 3 Maps
- About the Contributors
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
- V. East Asia
- 2.1 East Asia: DNA
- 2.2 Early Palaeolithic of Central and Northern Asia
- 2.3 The Upper Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia
- 2.4 Early Sedentism in East Asia: From Late Palaeolithic to Early Agricultural Societies in Insular East Asia
- 2.5 The Neolithic of Northern and Central China
- 2.6 The Neolithic of Southern China
- 2.7 Early Complex Societies in Northern China
- 2.8 Early Complex Societies in Southern China
- 2.9 China from Zhou to Tang
- 2.10 Complex Society in Korea and Japan
- 2.11 The Later Prehistory of the Russian Far East
- 2.12 East Asia: Languages
- VI. The Americas
- Volume 3
- Index
- References
2.8 - Early Complex Societies in Southern China
from V. - East Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents Summary for Volumes 1, 2 and 3
- Contents
- Volume 1 Maps
- Volume 2 Maps
- Volume 3 Maps
- About the Contributors
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
- V. East Asia
- 2.1 East Asia: DNA
- 2.2 Early Palaeolithic of Central and Northern Asia
- 2.3 The Upper Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia
- 2.4 Early Sedentism in East Asia: From Late Palaeolithic to Early Agricultural Societies in Insular East Asia
- 2.5 The Neolithic of Northern and Central China
- 2.6 The Neolithic of Southern China
- 2.7 Early Complex Societies in Northern China
- 2.8 Early Complex Societies in Southern China
- 2.9 China from Zhou to Tang
- 2.10 Complex Society in Korea and Japan
- 2.11 The Later Prehistory of the Russian Far East
- 2.12 East Asia: Languages
- VI. The Americas
- Volume 3
- Index
- References
Summary
Archaeological investigations in southern China offer sufficiently varied evidence to support the proposition that highly complex societies did in fact emerge in this region prior to the 1st millennium BCE. The archaeological data pertaining to early complex societies in southern China reveal clear subregional variation in the timing and rate of such developments. For this reason, this chapter divides southern China into three subregions: the present-day provinces of Hunan and Jiangxi, the present-day coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian, and Lingnan. By the second half of the 1st millennium BCE, many regions of southern China either had been incorporated into state level polities centred in central or northern China, or had themselves witnessed the emergence of native kingdoms. The chapter underscores the fact that, by the second half of the 1st millennium BCE, a number of regions within southern China had moved beyond the stage of early complex societies.
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