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This book represents the first comprehensive attempt to bring to
western scholarship the great advances made in Paleolithic
archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the People's Republic of
China. The 15 chapters are devoted to a historical overview of past
and recent studies, the development of chronological frameworks,
the composition and stratigraphy of vertebrate fauna, the pongid
and hominid palaeontological records, and Pleistocene prehistoric
archaeology. Maps, illustrations and tables illustrate the
materials presented here.
This book represents the first comprehensive attempt to bring to
western scholarship the great advances made in Paleolithic
archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the People's Republic of
China. The 15 chapters are devoted to a historical overview of past
and recent studies, the development of chronological frameworks,
the composition and stratigraphy of vertebrate fauna, the pongid
and hominid palaeontological records, and Pleistocene prehistoric
archaeology. Maps, illustrations and tables illustrate the
materials presented here.
The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology focuses on the
material culture and lifeways of the peoples of prehistoric and
early historic East and Southeast Asia; their origins, behavior and
identities as well as their biological, linguistic and cultural
differences and commonalities. Emphasis is placed upon the
interpretation of material culture to illuminate and explain social
processes and relationships as well as behavior, technology,
patterns and mechanisms of long-term change and chronology, in
addition to the intellectual history of archaeology as a discipline
in this diverse region. The Handbook augments
archaeologically-focused chapters contributed by regional scholars
by providing histories of research and intellectual traditions, and
by maintaining a broadly comparative perspective.
Archaeologically-derived data are emphasized with text-based
documentary information, provided to complement interpretations of
material culture. The Handbook is not restricted to art historical
or purely descriptive perspectives; its geographical coverage
includes the modern nation-states of China, Mongolia, Far Eastern
Russia, North and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia,
Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and
East Timor.
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