Archaeology of Asia
By: edited by Miriam T. Stark.
Contributors: Stark, Miriam T.
Series: Blackwell studies in global archaeology
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Archaeology -- Asia; Social archaeology -- Asia; Asia -- Antiquities; Asia -- Civilization
Description: "This introduction to the archaeology of Asia focuses on case studies from the region's last 10,000 years of history. Comprising fifteen chapters written by some of the world's foremost Asia archaeologists, the book sheds light on many of the most compelling aspects of Asian archaeology, from the earliest plant and animal domestication to the emergence of states and empires from Pakistan to North China. In particular, the contributors explore issues of crosscultural significance, such as migration, ethnicity, urbanism, and technology, challenging readers to think beyond national and regional boundaries. In doing so, they draw on original research data and synthesize work previously unavailable to western readers."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contextualizing an archaeology of Asia / Miriam Stark; title: Some national, regional, and political uses of archaeology in East and Southeast Asia / Ian Glover; title: Archaeology in the two Koreas / Sarah Nelson; title: Self-identification in the modern and post-modern world and archaeological research : a case study from Japan / Koji Mizoguchi; title: East Asian plant domestication / Gary Crawford; title: Asian farming diasporas? : agriculture, languages, and genes in China and Southeast Asia / Peter Bellwood; title: Early communities in East Asia : economic and sociopolitical organization at the local and regional levels / Anne Underhill and Junko Habu; title: Sociopolitical change from Neolithic and Bronze Age China / Li Liu and Xingcan Chen; title: Marks and labels : early writing in Neolithic and Shang China / David N. Keightley; title: Secondary state formation and the development of local identity : change and continuity in the state of Qin (770-221 BC) / Gideon Shelach and Yuri Pines; title: Frontiers and boundaries : the Han Empire from its southern periphery / Francis Allard; title: States on horseback : the rise of inner Asian confederations and empires / William Honeychurch and Chunag Amartuvshin; title: Historicizing foraging in Asia : power, history, and ecology of Holocene hunting and gathering / Kathleen Morrison; title: The axial age in Asia : the archaeology of Buddhism (500 BC-AD 500) / Himanshu Ray; title: Imperial landscapes of South Asia / Carla Sinopoli.