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作者简介
　　Li Liu is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at La Trobe University. She has published various articles on the Chinese Neolithic and is the author of State Formation in Early China (with Xingcan Chen) (Duckworth, 2003).

内容简介

The Yellow River valley of China, during the period ca. 7000-1500, saw the transformation of egalitarian societies into stratified chiefdoms giving rise to early states. This book examines that transformation, emphasising the interplay of many factors affecting these processes, such as climatic fluctuation, population movements, inter-group competition, warfare, and long-distance exchange of valuables. This book contains detailed archaeological data and general theoretical paradigms. It offers a comprehensive reconstruction of developmental trajectories toward social complexity during the Neolithic period, and locates prehistoric China within a global framework of social evolution.

目　　录

List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface
1 Setting the scene
Constructing the Longshan culture in archaeology
Longshan culture and constructing national history
Evolutionary approaches to the study of Longshan culture
Alternative research strategies
The scope of the book
2 The changing environmental contexts of China's first
complex societies
Geographic settings
Reconstruction of paleoenvironment and cultural development
Conclusion

List of illustrations List of tables Preface 1 Setting the scene Constructing the Longshan culture in archaeology Longshan culture and constructing national history Evolutionary approaches to the study of Longshan culture Alternative research strategies The scope of the book 2 The changing environmental contexts of China's first complex societies Geographic settings Reconstruction of paleoenvironment and cultural development Conclusion 3 Household subsistence and ritual Introduction Household activities: a general survey A household at Kangjia Implications of Kangjia archaeological remains Conclusions 4 Spatial organization and social relations in communities Introduction Spatial orders of settlements in the Neolithic period Settlement organization in the late Neolithic period Discussion and conclusions 5 Community burial patterns Introduction Alternative approaches to Neolithic burial patterns Regional variability in burial patterns Discussion Conclusion 6 Development and decline of complex societies in the Central Plains Introduction Methods Data Regional settlement patterns Social complexity in the less-circumscribed regions Settlement patterns and social organization Discussion and conclusions 7 Development and decline of social complexity beyond the Central Plains Introduction Regional settlement patterns in Shandong Regional settlement patterns in Central Shaanxi Settlement patterns and social organization: a comparison Discussion and conclusions 8 Trajectories toward early states Introduction: from chiefdoms to states The Erlitou culture - searching for the Xia dynasty The Proto-Shang culture Conclusions 9 Reconstructing social processes Introduction Development of social hierarchy and integration Dynamics of social change Conclusions and further research questions Notes Appendixes References Index

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