Archaeology of East Asia
Subtitle: the rise of civilization in China, Korea and Japan
By: Gina L. Barnes
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781785700705; 9781785700712; 9781785700729; 9781785700736
Subjects: Civilization; Antiquities
Work titles: China, Korea, and Japan
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.
Table of contents: title: Orientation; title: Archaeological organization; title: The earliest inhabitants (2,000,000-40,000 years ago); title: Innovations of modern humans (40,000-10,000 years ago); title: Earlier Holocene subsistence patterns (10,000-5000 years ago = 8000-3000 BC); title: The Mid-Holocene social mosaic (5000-2000 BC); title: Emergence and decline of Late Neolithic societies (3300-1900 BC); title: Bronze age beginnings (2000-850 BC); title: Early state Florescence (1500-770 BC); title: Eastern Zhou and its frontiers (1st millennium BC); title: Pen/insular rice, bronze and iron (1300-200 BC); title: The making and breaking of empire (350 BC-500 AD); title: The Yellow Sea interaction sphere (500 BC-300 AD).