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Archaeology of East Asia : the rise of civilization in China, Korea and Japan
Title:
Archaeology of East Asia : the rise of civilization in China, Korea and Japan

China, Korea, and Japan : the rise of civilization in East Asia.
Author:
Barnes, Gina Lee, author.
ISBN:
9781785706677
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Uniform Title:
China, Korea, and Japan : the rise of civilization in East Asia.
Edition:
Paperback edition.
Physical Description:
xix, 492 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
General Note:
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2015. Reprinted in 2017 by Oxbow Books"--Title page verso.
Originally published under title: China, Korea, and Japan : the rise of civilization in East Asia. 1993.
Also published under title: Rise of civilization in East Asia : the archaeology of China, Korea and Japan. 1999.
Contents:
Orientation -- Archaeological organization -- The earliest inhabitants (2,000,000-40,000 years ago) -- Innovations of modern humans (40,000-10,000 years ago) -- Earlier Holocene subsistence patterns (10,000-5000 years ago = 8000-3000 BC) -- The Mid-Holocene social mosaic (5000-2000 BC) -- Emergence and decline of Late Neolithic societies (3300-1900 BC) -- Bronze age beginnings (2000-850 BC) -- Early state Florescence (1500-770 BC) -- Eastern Zhou and its frontiers (1st millennium BC) -- Pen/insular rice, bronze and iron (1300-200 BC) -- The making and breaking of empire (350 BC-500 AD) -- The Yellow Sea interaction sphere (500 BC-300 AD) -- Mounded tomb cultures (2-5c AD) -- East Asian civilization (3-7c AD) -- Epilogue : Ancient East Asia in the modern world.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-476) and indexes.
Field 805:
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