Environmental Foundations to the Rise of Early Civilisations in China

by Yijie Zhuang

The transition from the middle to late Holocene (5000-4000 BP) coincided with profound socioeconomic transformations and intensified regional and trans-regional interactions in late prehistoric China. These environmental and socioeconomic changes gave rise to diverse lifeways and settlement modes that constituted the foundation for the emergence of regional civilisations. In this Element, prehistoric China is divided roughly into the Highlands, Lowlands,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009507427
• ISBN13: 9781009507424
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages