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Author(s): Li Liu
ISBN(s): 9780521811842, 0521811848
Edition: illustrated edition
File Details: PDF, 7.71 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521811848

ISBN 13: 9780521811842 

Author: Li Liu

“This book studies the formation of complex societies in prehistoric China during the Neolithic and early state periods, c. 7000-1500 B.C. Archaeological materials are interpreted through anthropological perspectives, using systematic analysis of 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.”

Table of contents:

Setting the scene
The changing environmental contexts of China’s first complex societies
Household subsistence and ritual
Spatial organization and social relations in communities
Community burial patterns
Development and decline of complex societies in the Central Plains
Development and decline of social complexity beyond the Central Plains
Trajectories toward early states
Reconstructing social processes

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