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• Title:[China, Korea, and Japan]
  Archaeology of East Asia : the rise of civilization in China, Korea and Japan / Gina L. Barnes.
  
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• Author/Creator:Barnes, Gina Lee, author.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS509.3 .B37 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 09-15-2024
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:East Asia--Civilization.
  East Asia--Antiquities.
  
• Description:xix, 492 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
  
• Notes:Originally published under title: China, Korea, and Japan : the rise of civilization in East Asia. 1993.
  Also published under title: Rise of civilization in East Asia : the archaeology of China, Korea and Japan. 1999.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781785700705 (hardback)
  1785700707 (hardback)
  9781785700712 (epub)
  9781785700729 (mobi)
  9781785700736 (pdf)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Orientation
  Grounding
  Starting from the Yellow Sea
  Mainland geography
  loesslands
  Northern Zone
  Westward ho!
  Eastward bound
  North
  -south divisions
  National chronologies
  With or without writing?
  Prehistoric archaeology
  Protohistoric archaeology
  Historic archaeology
  East Asian cultural successions
  Chinese sequence
  Korean sequence
  Japanese sequence
  2. Archaeological Organization
  Archaeology as a government endeavor
  Japan
  Korea
  China
  East Asian archaeology since 1990
  Science and theory
  Multiple archaeologies
  Cooperative projects
  Conferences
  Journals
  3. Earliest Inhabitants (2,000,000
  40,000 years ago)
  peopling of East Asia
  first peopling, or Out of Africa 1
  What peoples?
  Habitats, habits and habitation
  Their tool kits
  Intermediate peoples
  second peopling, or Out of Africa 2
  How far east did Pleistocene hominins go, and when?
  4. Innovations of Modern Humans (40,000
  10,000 years ago)
  Modern peoples and their accoutrements
  Upper Palaeolithic climate and chronology
  New lithic strategies
  Significance of prepared-core technologies
  Blade varieties and assemblages
  What were they hunting?
  mobile lifestyle
  Harbingers of the Neolithic
  Edge-ground axes
  Plant utilization
  Coastal living
  invention of pottery
  5. Earlier Holocene Subsistence Patterns (10,000
  5000 years ago = 8000
  3000 BC)
  Settling down
  Earliest villages
  Feedback loops between food and sedentism
  `In-between' societies
  Exploiting Holocene forests
  importance of nuts
  Timbers, houses and woodworking tools
  Living on Holocene shores
  Anatomy of a shellmound
  Fish stories
  Pen/Insular species management
  Jomon husbandry
  Chulmun husbandry
  Mainland cereal growers
  Northern millet cultures
  Southern rice culture
  Mainland broad-ranging subsistence
  Food studies
  Proportional food resources
  Isotope analyses
  6. Mid-Holocene Social Mosaic (5000
  2000 BC)
  Introduction
  Middle Jomon phenomenon
  regional exchange network
  Core villages
  Loesslands tradition
  Yangshao villages
  Loesslands pottery
  East Coast tradition
  Dawenkou villages
  East Coast ceramics
  Hongshan enigma
  Dimensions of social status
  Gender distinctions
  Ritualists
  Social hierarchies
  importance of commensality
  Summary
  7. Emergence and Decline of Late Neolithic Societies (3300
  1900 BC)
  Introduction
  Periodization
  Agriculture, monumental architecture and social stratification
  What is a state?
  Urbanizing settlements
  Of walls and terraces
  Southern powerhouse: Liangzhu site complex
  Intermontane Taosi
  Liangchengzhen, Eastern Longshan
  Quick comparisons
  Site hierarchies
  Central Plain polity development
  Walled settlements
  Sacrificial interments
  Settlement system
  dramatic end of the Late Neolithic
  opening of the steppes
  western and central steppes
  From west to east
  Establishment of the Early Metal Province
  8. Bronze Age Beginnings (2000
  850 BC)
  Bronze Age time span
  Bronze and agro-pastoralism
  Qijia and Siba cultures
  Zhukaigou
  Lower Xiajiadian
  Bronze and Erlitou
  Erlitou site (1850
  1550 BC)
  Erlitou culture and polity
  Significance of Erlitou bronze vessels
  Shang bronze tradition
  Shang bronzes
  Southern bronze cultures
  Lower and Middle Yangzi
  Sichuan Basin: Sanxingdui
  Northern Bronze Complex
  In conclusion
  9. Early State Florescence (1500
  770 BC)
  Dynastic successions
  Was Erlitou the Xia capital?
  Early, Middle and Late Shang
  Royal Zhou
  Early inscriptions
  Shang state organization
  Shang capitals
  late great capital of Yinxu
  Territorial expansion
  Political organization
  Royal Zhou and enfeoffments
  Zhou in the Zhouyuan
  Early Zhou socio-political organization
  Yan
  - a royal enfeoffment
  Early Zhou architectural contributions
  Sacrifice and warfare
  Sacrifice at altar and tomb
  Of horses and chariots
  Early state overview
  10. Eastern Zhou and Its Frontiers (1st millennium BC)
  Eastern Zhou (771
  221 BC)
  State autonomy
  Warfare tactics
  Zhou and `non-Zhou' identity formation
  From huaxia to Han
  Peripheral origins
  Zhou border states
  eastern state of Qi
  southern state of Chu
  Qin to the west
  Jin in the northwest
  Commercial endeavors
  Bronzes: deterioriations and advances
  Iron: the beginning of an industry
  Salt
  cash economy
  Northern Zone
  From Rong and Di to hu
  Northern signifiers: animal art and gold
  11. Pen/Insular Rice, Bronze and Iron (1300
  200 BC)
  Contributions from the China Mainland
  Upper Xiajiadian
  Yueshi culture
  Establishing Mumun culture
  Transmission of rice farming
  Dolmen and cist burials
  Final addition of bronzes to the funerary goods
  Middle Mumun (850
  550 BC) settlement and society
  Taepyong-ri site
  Komdan-ri site
  Songguk-ri site
  Late Mumun / Early Iron Age transitions (500
  200 BC)
  Slender Bronze Dagger culture
  Arrival of iron
  From Jomon to Yayoi
  Yayoi beginnings
  Yayoi expansion
  Craft advancements
  Jomon resistance to wet-rice agriculture
  12. Making and Breaking of Empire (350 BC-500 AD)
  Qin, the Unifier
  Warring states reforms
  United China
  Han Dynasty
  Establishment of unified rule
  Imperial capitals
  Han burial innovations
  Roads as arteries to the empire
  Road to the west
  Road to the south
  Continuing northern border problems
  Northeastern relations
  Turmoil at the end of Han
  Fragmentation of the empire
  Succeeding polities
  13. Yellow Sea Interaction Sphere (400 BC-300 AD)
  Trade and tribute relations
  Meeting the Hui and Mo
  Han domination
  Northeastern horse-riders
  Puyo in the central Manchurian Basin
  Early Koguryo in the eastern Manchurian massif
  Lelang commandery
  Commandery sites
  Relations with Shandong and Liaodong
  Lelang tombs
  From Gongsun to Wei rule
  Samhan of the southern Korean Peninsula
  Commandery connections
  Ceramic advancements
  Iron production
  From the Time Han to the Three Kingdoms
  Yayoi bronze cultures
  Renewed continental connections
  North Kyushu continental gateway
  14. Mounded Tomb Cultures (2
  5c AD)
  Pen/Insular state formation
  On the Peninsula
  Koguryo and Paekche origins
  Kaya and Silla origins
  In the Islands
  From mound-burials to mounded tombs
  Daifang and Queen Himiko
  Kofun bunka: the mounded tomb culture (MTC) of Japan
  Early state relations
  Warfare
  Writing
  New tombs and art
  Corridor-chamber tombs
  Mural tombs
  Expansion of Silla and Yamato
  Administrative incorporation by Yamato
  Military conquest by Silla
  15. East Asian Civilization (3
  7c AD)
  Rapid transformations
  On the Mainland
  In the Pen/Insulae
  Buddhism
  Buddhist grottoes
  Pen/Insular Buddhism
  Temple excavations
  Law and administration: a Yamato case study
  Territorial control
  Gridded cities
  Provincial systems
  new field system
  Taxation
  Technological developments
  Cosmopolitan lifestyles
  16. Epilogue: Ancient East Asia in the Modern World
  Why study East Asian archaeology?
  Sharing of religious philosophies
  Friction dating to earlier times
  problem with Mimana
  Keyhole tombs in Korea
  Koguryo split between two states
  importance of national heritage
  Appendices
  A. Scientific dating
  B. List of abbreviations
  C. Language issues: pronunciation and alternative spellings
  D. Institutional histories 1092
  2014
  E. Palaeolithic finds on the China Mainland
  E.1. Early Palaeolithic, Early Pleistocene
  E.2. Early Palaeolithic, Middle Pleistocene
  E.3. Fossil hominins from the Late Pleistocene
  F. Succession of lithic technologies in Upper Palaeolithic Japan
  G. Major domestic species in East Asia
  G.1. Domestication of species
  G.2. Domesticates from the west
  H. Household and sector structure and production data from two Mainland Neolithic sites
  H.1. Jiangzhai
  H.2. Fushanzhuang
  I. Liangzhu burial data
  I.1. Early Liangzhu burials
  I.2. Middle Liangzhu burials
  J. Evidence of early metallurgical production
  K. Features of Northern Zone cultures in the Zhou period
  K.1. Types I and II material cultures
  K.2. Upper Xiajiadian and the Northeast (Manchurian Basin)
  K.3. Northern Frontier art, divided into Early (9
  4c BC) and Late (after 4c BC)
  L. Analysis of burial goods in several tomb types during the Lelang period
  Endnotes
  Sources for Illustrations and Box and Table data
  Bibliography
  Indices
  I. Archaeological sites and cultures
  II. Periods
  III. Place Names.