Archaeology of Asia

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Stark Miriam T.
Published: Blackwell Pub.,
Publisher Address: Malden, MA
Publication Dates: 2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Blackwell studies in global archaeology ; 7
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Carrier Form: xvi, 364 p.: ill., maps ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 1405102128
9781405102124
1405102136 (pbk)
9781405102131 (pbk)
Index Number: K883
CLC: K883
Call Number: K883/A669
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contextualizing an archaeology of Asia / Miriam Stark -- Some national, regional, and political uses of archaeology in East and Southeast Asia / Ian Glover -- Archaeology in the two Koreas / Sarah Nelson -- Self-identification in the modern and post-modern world and archaeological research : a case study from Japan / Koji Mizoguchi -- East Asian plant domestication / Gary Crawford -- Asian farming diasporas? : agriculture, languages, and genes in China and Southeast Asia / Peter Bellwood -- Early communities in East Asia : economic and sociopolitical organization at the local and regional levels / Anne Underhill and Junko Habu -- Sociopolitical change from Neolithic to Bronze Age China / Li Liu and Xingcan Chen -- Marks and labels : early writing in Neolithic and Shang China / David N. Keightley -- Secondary state formation and the development of local identity : change and continuity in the state of Qin (770-221 BC) / Gideon Shelach and Yuri Pines -- Frontiers and boundaries : the Han Empire from its southern periphery / Francis Allard -- States on horseback : the rise of inner Asian confederations and empires / William Honeychurch and Chunag Amartuvshin -- Historicizing foraging in South Asia : power, history, and ecology of Holocene hunting and gathering Kathleen Morrison -- The axial age in South Asia : the archaeology of Buddhism (500 B.C.-A.D. 500) / Himanshu Ray -- Imperial landscapes of South Asia / Carla Sinopoli.