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The Chinese neolithic : = trajectories to early states /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Chinese neolithic :/ Li Liu.
Reminder of title:	trajectories to early states /
Author:	Liu, Li,
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 310 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Neolithic period - China. -
Subject:	China -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489624
ISBN:	9780511489624 (ebook)

The Chinese neolithic : = trajectories to early states /
Liu, Li,1953 December 12-

The Chinese neolithic :trajectories to early states /Li Liu. - 1 online resource (xvi, 310 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - New studies in archaeology. - New studies in archaeology..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511489624 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

801427
Neolithic period
--China.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

714969
China

LC Class. No.: GN776.32.C6 / L58 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 931

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