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020			_a9781139015301 (ebook)
020			_z9780521643108 (hardback)
020			_z9780521644327 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aGN855.C6 _bL64 2012
082	0	0	_a931 _223
100	1		_aLiu, Li, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Archaeology of China : _bFrom the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age / _cLi Liu, Xingcan Chen.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (498 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCambridge World Archaeology
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Palaeolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second millennium BC. Li Liu and Xingcan Chen demonstrate that sociopolitical evolution was multicentric and shaped by inter-polity factionalism and competition, as well as by the many material technologies introduced from other parts of the world. The book illustrates how ancient Chinese societies were transformed during this period from simple to complex, tribal to urban, and preliterate to literate.
700	1		_aChen, Xingcan, _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521643108
830		0	_aCambridge World Archaeology.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139015301
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38807 _d38807