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The Archaeology of China - From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,197
Discovery Miles 11 970
The Archaeology of China - From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age (Paperback, New): Li Liu, Xingcan Chen

The Archaeology of China - From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age (Paperback, New)

Li Liu, Xingcan Chen

Series: Cambridge World Archaeology

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This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Paleolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages, and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second millennium BC. Li Liu and Xingcan Chen demonstrate that sociopolitical evolution was multicentric and shaped by inter-polity factionalism and competition, as well as by the many material technologies introduced from other parts of the world. The book illustrates how ancient Chinese societies were transformed during this period from simple to complex, tribal to urban, and preliterate to literate.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge World Archaeology
Release date: April 2012
First published: April 2012
Authors: Li Liu • Xingcan Chen
Dimensions: 251 x 178 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 498
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-64432-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Prehistoric archaeology
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LSN: 0-521-64432-1
Barcode: 9780521644327

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