Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Chinese archaeology: Past, present, and future
- Chapter 2 Environment and ecology
- Chapter 3 Foragers and collectors in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (24,000–9000 cal. BP)
- Chapter 4 Domestication of plants and animals
- Chapter 5 Neolithization: Sedentism and food production in the early Neolithic (7000–5000 BC)
- Chapter 6 Emergence of social inequality – The middle Neolithic (5000–3000 BC)
- Chapter 7 Rise and fall of early complex societies: The late neolithic (3000–2000 BC)
- Chapter 8 Formation of early states in the Central Plain: Erlitou and Erligang (1900/1800–1250 BC)
- Chapter 9 Bronze cultures of the northern frontiers and beyond during the early second millennium BC
- Chapter 10 The late shang dynasty and its neighbors (1250–1046 BC)
- Chapter 11 Chinese civilization in comparative perspective
- Appendix Horse bones in faunal assemblages from Neolithic and early Bronze Age sites in north China
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Chinese archaeology: Past, present, and future
- Chapter 2 Environment and ecology
- Chapter 3 Foragers and collectors in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (24,000–9000 cal. BP)
- Chapter 4 Domestication of plants and animals
- Chapter 5 Neolithization: Sedentism and food production in the early Neolithic (7000–5000 BC)
- Chapter 6 Emergence of social inequality – The middle Neolithic (5000–3000 BC)
- Chapter 7 Rise and fall of early complex societies: The late neolithic (3000–2000 BC)
- Chapter 8 Formation of early states in the Central Plain: Erlitou and Erligang (1900/1800–1250 BC)
- Chapter 9 Bronze cultures of the northern frontiers and beyond during the early second millennium BC
- Chapter 10 The late shang dynasty and its neighbors (1250–1046 BC)
- Chapter 11 Chinese civilization in comparative perspective
- Appendix Horse bones in faunal assemblages from Neolithic and early Bronze Age sites in north China
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Archaeology of ChinaFrom the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age, pp. i - viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012