The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States

by Li Liu

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521010640
• ISBN13: 9780521010641
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"