Ancient Society and Metallurgy: A comparative study of Bronze Age societies in Central Eurasia and North China

by Liangren Zhang

Focusing on Bronze Age societies in Central Eurasia and North China, this book presents a new scenario of early social evolution. Essentially it integrates the Marxist production-relation concept and the community concept into the Band-Tribe-Chiefdom-State scheme, and formulates the following three hypotheses: 1) The community is an autonomous agent in political, economic, and cultural spheres; 2) The nature of the early social evolution is that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1407309110
• ISBN13: 9781407309118
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 11.6"