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The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States (New Studies in Archaeology) by Li Liu; Clive Gamble; Wendy Ashmore; Colin Renfrew is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book studies the formation of complex societies in prehistoric China during the Neolithic and early state periods, c. 7000–1500 BC. Archaeological materials are interpreted through anthropological perspectives, using systematic analytic methods in settlement and burial patterns. Both agency and process are considered in the development of chiefdoms and in the emergence of early states in the Yellow River region. Interrelationships between factors such as mortuary practice, craft specialization, ritual activities, warfare, exchange of elite goods, climatic fluctuations, and environmental changes are emphasized. This study offers a critical evaluation of current archaeological data from Chinese sources, and argues that, although some general tendencies are noted, social changes were affected by multiple factors in no pre-determined sequence. In this most comprehensive study to date, Li Liu attempts to reconstruct developmental trajectories toward early states in Chinese civilization and discusses theoretical implications of Chinese archaeology for the understanding of social evolution.

Who reads The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States (New Studies in Archaeology)?

Author

Li Liu; Clive Gamble; Wendy Ashmore; Colin Renfrew

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280419591

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, History