COOK, Constance A.: Death in Ancient China.
The Tale of One Man's Journey. (China Studies, 8) Leiden: Brill 2006.
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Book Description
This richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth
of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated
bamboo texts.
The point of departure is the textual and material evidence found in one tomb of an elite man buried
in 316 BCE near a once wealthy middle Yangzi River valley metropolis. Particular emphasis is placed
on the role of cosmological symbolism and the nature of the spirit world. The author shows how
illness and death were perceived as steps in a spiritual journey from one realm into another.
Transmitted textual records are compared with excavated texts. The layout and contents of this
multi-chambered tomb are analyzed as are the contents of two texts, a record of divination and
sacrifices performed during the last three years of the occupant’s life and a tomb inventory record
of mortuary gifts. The texts are fully translated and annotated in the appendices.
A first-time close-up view of a set of local beliefs which not only reflect the larger ancient
Chinese religious system but also underlay the rich intellectual and artistic life of pre-Imperial
China.
With first full translations of texts previously unknown to all except a small handful of
sinologists.
Hardback, viii, 296 pp
(ISBN: 9004153128) € 89.00 / US$ 116.00 |
DAI Xiangming: Pottery Production, Settlement Patterns, and Development of Social
Complexity in the Yuanqu Basin, North-Central China. BAR International Series 1502,
Oxford: Archaeopress 2006.
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Book Description
This work investigates the development of social complexity and the changes of modes of pottery
production from the Neolithic to early Bronze Age in the Yuanqu Basin, north-central China. The
research focuses on the development of specialised pottery production in different societies.
Through settlement pattern studies, the author examines the social changes during eight cultural
periods from the Neolithic to the early Bronze Age (ca. 6200-1300 B.C.). The settlement analyses
address 46 sites, including seven excavated sites in the Yuanqu Basin. This study argues that the
initial and low-level specialisation might occur in the simple and non-stratified society, and the
dramatic change in the mode of pottery production or the degree of specialisation is not necessarily
related to the emergence and development of chiefdom-level societies, but rather associated with the
formation of state-level societies, as demonstrated by the Yuanqu case.
(from the website of the publisher)
See also:
Dissertations on East Asian Archaeology Abstracts
129 pages
(ISBN: 1841719390) £ 30.00 |
FALKENHAUSEN, Lothar von:
Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence.
(Ideas, Debates and Perspectives 2) Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA 2006.
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Book Description
The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1000-250 BC) was a crucial period during which the Chinese Classics came
into being and famous thinkers such as Confucius (ca. 551-479 BC) laid the intellectual foundations
of traditional Chinese civilization. Complementing and often challenging the surviving writings,
Lothar von Falkenhausen develops a self-consciously archaeological perspective on the social
conditions in this time. He analyzes clan and lineage organization, social stratification, gender
and ethnic differences, as well as social change over time. Falkenhausen not only presents new data,
but also thinks about these data in new ways, emphasizing the nexus between the social order and
ritual practices and introducing anthropological approaches as-yet rarely tested in China.
This book presents the archaeological perspective on the social conditions of the Late Bronze Age
(ca. 1000-250 BC) period including clan and lineage organization, social stratification, gender and
ethnic differences, as well as social change over time.
Contents:
Part I: New Standards of Ranking and Their Application
Chapter One: The Reorganization of the Élite in Late Western Zhou (ca. 850 BC)
Chapter Two: Distinctions of Rank and Gender Within Territorial Ruling Lineages (ca. 1000-650 BC)
Chapter Three: A North Chinese Community (ca. 800-450 BC): Demography and Ranking
Part II : Internal Coalescence and Outward Delimitation
Chapter Four: Clan Differences Within the Zhou Culture Sphere (ca. 1050-500 BC)
Chapter Five: Ethnic Contrasts Within the Zhou Culture Sphere (ca. 1050-350 BC)
Chapter Six: An Expanding Society (ca. 1050-250 BC)
Part III : Changes and Redefinitions
Chapter Seven: The Eastern Zhou Religious Transformat ion (ca. 600-221 BC)
Chapter Eight: The Separation of the Higher and Lower Élites (ca. 750-221 BC)
Chapter Nine: The Merging of the Lower Élite with the Commoner Classes (ca. 600-221 BC)
Conclusion
(from the website of the publisher)
520 pages
Paperback (ISBN 1931745307) US $40.00
Hardback (ISBN: 1931745315) US $70.00 |
KOPPLIN, Monika: Im Zeichen des Drachen: Von der
Schönheit chinesischer Lacke. Hommage an Fritz Löw-Beer. Bearbeitet von
Patricia FRICK, & Margarete PRÜCH. Munich: Hirmer 2006.
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Book Description
Zu den Kostbarkeiten der chinesischen Kultur gehört seit Jahrtausenden die Lackkunst. Mit Lack
werden Gefäße und Möbel farbig gefaßt und veredelt; vielschichtig aufgetragen und in feinstes Relief
geschnitzt, ist der glänzende Werkstoff Träger reicher emblematischer Dekore. Fritz Löw-Beer
(1906–1976) war der erste Sammler in der westlichen Welt, der die Bedeutung dieses künstlerischen
Mediums erkannte und eine Sammlung mit Stücken vor allem der Han-Zeit (206 v.Chr.–6 n.Chr.) und
Ming-Zeit (1368–1644) anlegte.
Den Schwerpunkt seines heute zum Großteil im Stuttgarter Linden-Museum aufbewahrten Bestandes bilden
Spitzenwerke der Schnitzlackkunst aus dem 13. bis 18. Jahrhundert. Das Museum für Lackkunst in
Münster und das Linden-Museum in Stuttgart nehmen den 100. Geburtstag Löw-Beers zum Anlaß, eine mit
einzelnen herausragenden Stücken auch in anderen Museen der Welt vertretene Sammlung
zusammenzuführen und in ihrer Einmaligkeit in einem reich bebilderten wissenschaftlichen Katalog zu
präsentieren.
(from the website of the publisher)
272 pages, 208 pictures
Hardback (ISBN: 978-3-7774-3105-5) € 39,90 |
LI Feng: Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045-771 BC.
Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press 2006.
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Book Description
The Bronze Age state of the Western Zhou represented a ground-breaking
period in Chinese culture and civilization. This book addresses the
complex relationship between geography and political power within the
context of the crisis and fall of that state between 1045 and 771 B.C.
Drawing on the latest archaeological discoveries, the book shows how
inscribed bronze vessels can be used to reveal changes in the political
space of the period, and explores literary and geographical evidence to
produce a coherent understanding of the Bronze Age past.
424 pages
Hardback (ISBN: 0521852722) $100.00 |
SHAUGHNESSY, Edward L. : Rewriting Early Chinese Texts (Suny Series in Chinese
Philosophy and Culture). New York: State University of New York Press 2006.
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Paperback - 287 pages. (ISBN: 0791466442) $29.95
Hardback - 287 pages. (ISBN: 0791466434) $85.00 |
SHEN, Hsueh-man (ed.): Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire 907-1125.
Milan: 5 Continents Editions 2006.
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire 907-1125. Asia Society and Museum New York, October 6 - December 31, 2006.
Hardback - 352 pages. (ISBN: 8874393326) $75.00
German version:
Judith Rickenbach, Hsueh-man Shen (Hrsg.): Schätze der Liao. Chinas vergessene Nomadendynastie.
Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln vom 27.1. bis 22.4.
2007 und im Museum Rietberg vom 13.5. bis 15.7.2007. Gva-Vertriebsgemeinschaft 2007
Hardback - 391 pages. (ISBN: 3907077334) €46.00 |
WAGNER, Mayke: Neolithikum und frühe Bronzezeit in Nordchina vor 8000 bis 3500 Jahren. Die
nordöstliche Tiefebene (Südteil). (Archäologie in Eurasien, Band 21) Hrsg.: Deutsches
Archäologisches Institut; Eurasien-Abteilung, Mainz: Philipp von Zabern 2006.
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Mit dem Band 21 wird in der Reihe Archäologie in Eurasien erstmals ein archäologisches Thema
aus dem Gebiet des heutigen China behandelt. Die Publikation: "Das Neolithikum und die frühe
Bronzezeit in Nordchina" geht auf die Habilitationsschrift von Mayke Wagner, zweite Direktorin
der Eurasienabteilung des DAI, zurück. Die Wissenschaftlerin öffnet mit diesem Band detailliert
Einblick in den archäologischen Fundstoff und eine Kulturentwicklung, die den meisten europäischen
Lesern aufgrund der Sprachbarriere nicht zugänglich ist. Aber auch für Sprachkundige - Sinologen und
Kunsthistoriker Ostasiens - bietet der Band überraschende Zeugnisse früher Kulturen nördlich des
Einzugsbereiches des Gelben Flusses. Sie belegen den Beginn fester Ansiedlungen um 6200 v. Chr., den
Bau von Grabpyramiden und runden Altären aus Stein zwischen 3700 und 2900 v. Chr. sowie das
Aufkommen massiver Befestigungsanlagen zusammen mit ersten Bronzen um 2000 v. Chr. Erst im letzten
Abschnitt des Neolithikums, im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr., sind vom Unterlauf des Gelben Flusses her
beeinflusste Kulturbildungen zu erkennen. Bis dahin weisen die Siedlungsspuren größere
Übereinstimmung mit Sibirien, Korea und Japan auf. Den Schwerpunkt des Bandes bilden Überlegungen
zur Chronologie der Fundgruppen im Vergleich mit benachbarten Kulturen.
74 pages, 285 illustrations.
Hardback (ISBN: 3-8053-3668-3) € 58.00 |
Xi’an – Kaiserliche Macht im Jenseits. Grabfunde und Tempelschätze aus Chinas alter Hauptstadt. Hrsg.: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland,
Mainz: Philipp von
Zabern 2006
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Xi’an war die erste Hauptstadt Chinas. 1120 Jahre lang beherrschten Kaiser der
Dynastien Qin, Han und Tang von hier aus ein gewaltiges Reich. Lange Zeit die
größte Stadt der Welt, war Xi’an auch eine Wiege der chinesischen Kultur – was
die Entdeckung der berühmten Terrakotta-Armee im Grab des Kaisers Qin Shihuangdi
nahe der Stadt schlagartig in Erinnerung rief.
Im Zentrum des reich
bebilderten Katalogbuches stehen neueste Ausgrabungen in den Gräbern um Xi’an,
die sich auf einer Strecke von 180 km um die heutige Stadt legen. Es präsentiert
150 prunkvolle Kunstgegenstände und zahlreiche weitere sensationelle Funde aus
Grabbeigaben und den Tempelschätzen der wechselnden Kaiserhäuser und reicher
adeliger Familien. In ihrer Pracht und künstlerischen Meisterschaft zeigt sich
die hohe Kultur des alten China.
370 pages, 353 illustrations.
Hardback (ISBN: 3-8053-3605-5) € 44.90 |
BATTEN, Bruce L.: Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press 2006.
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Book Description
A thousand years ago, most visitors to Japan would have arrived by ship at Hakata Bay, the one
and only authorized gateway to Japan. Hakata was the location of the Kôrokan, an official
guest-house for foreign visitors that is currently yielding its secrets to the spades of Japanese
archaeologists. Nearby was Dazaifu, the imperial capital of western Japan, surrounded by mountain
fortresses and defended by an army of border guards. Over the ages, Hakata was a staging ground for
Japanese troops on their way to Korea and ground zero for foreign invasions of Japan. Through the
port passed a rich variety of diplomats, immigrants, raiders, and traders, both Japanese and
foreign.
Gateway to Japan spotlights four categories of cross-cultural interaction—war, diplomacy, piracy,
and trade—over a period of eight hundred years to gain insight into several larger questions about
Japan and its place in the world: How and why did Hakata come to serve as the country’s “front
door”? How did geography influence the development of state and society in the Japanese archipelago?
Has Japan been historically open or closed to outside influence? Why are Japanese so profoundly
ambivalent about other places and people?
Individual chapters focus on Chinese expansionism and its consequences for Japan and East Asia as a
whole; the subtle (and not-so-subtle) contradictions and obfuscations of the diplomatic process as
seen in Japanese treatment of Korean envoys visiting Kyushu; random but sometimes devastating
attacks on Kyushu by Korean (and sometimes Japanese) pirates; and foreign commerce in and around
Hakata, which turns out to be neither fully “foreign” nor fully “commerce” in the modern sense of
the word. The conclusion briefly traces the story forward into medieval and early modern times.
Enriched by fascinating historical vignettes and dozens of maps and photographs, this engagingly
written volume explores issues not only important for Japan’s early history but also highly
pertinent to Japan’s role in the world today. Now, as in the period examined here, Japan has one
principal entry point (the international airport at Narita); its relationship with the outside world
(both East and West) is ambivalent; and, while sometimes astonishingly open-minded, Japanese are at
other times frustratingly exclusive in their dealings with non-Japanese. Gateway to Japan will be of
substantial interest to all students of Japan, East Asia, and intercultural studies.
(from the website of the publisher)
200 pages.
Softcover (ISBN: 978-0-8248-3029-8) $25.00
Hardback (ISBN: 978-0-8248-2971-1) $55.00 |
BARNES, Gina L.: State Formation in Japan. Emergence of a 4th-century Ruling Elite
(Durham East Asia Series). Routledge 2006.
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Book Description
This volume addresses the enigma of the spread of the Mounded Tomb Culture in Early Kofun period
Japan. With a seeming lack of clear territorial administration, how did the Miwa paramounts obtain
the loyalties and services of independent chieftains in western Japan to participate in an elite
sub-culture marked by a homogeneous burial ritual? A case is built for regarding a cult surrounding
the legendary Queen Himiko as the attractor and glue for the Early Kofun socio-political system:
Himiko as the earthly analog of China’s Queen Mother of the West.
Contents:
Preface
1. Orientation
2. Theoretical Approaches
3. Edge of Empire: Yayoi interaction with the continent (1st century BC to mid-3rd century AD)
4. From Yamatai to Yamato (3rd century)
5. Hashihaka and Mounded Burials (3rd century)
6. Early Kofun Polities (mid-3rd to mid- 4th centuries)
7. Prestige Goods and Class Identity (mid-3rd to mid-4th centuries)
8. The Miwa Court and Cult (late 3rd to mid-4th century)
Epilogue
Bibliography
Appendix 1 The Chinese Court Chronicles
Appendix 2 The Japanese Court Chronicles Glossary and Character
List
266 pages.
Hardback (ISBN: 978-0-415-31178-6) £70.00 (UK) |
Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin (ed.): Archäologie in Japan - Umbrüche und Kontinuitäten.
Japanische und europäische Archäologen im Gespräch 21.-24.11.2004. München: Iudicium 2006.
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Book Content:
Angelika Viets, Vorwort
SHŌJI Makoto, Grußwort zum Symposium
TANABE Ikuo, Prolog – Japanische Archäologie heute
ONO Akira, Das Jungpaläolithikum auf dem japanischen Archipel - Datierung und Kriterien für Vergleiche
INADA Takashi, Jagd und Siedlungsweise auf der japanischen Inselkette während des Jungpaläolithikums
Nicholas J. CONARD, Frühe gegenständliche Kunst und Musikinstrumente aus Schwaben
Michael BAALES, Klima, Umwelt und Archäologie am Ende der letzten Kaltzeit in Mitteleuropa
OKADA Yasuhiro, Die jōmonzeitliche Sannai Maruyama-Fundstelle - Ausgrabungen und Ergebnisse
OKAMURA Michio, Die Sannai Maruyama-Siedlung im Kontext der jōmonzeitlichen Kultur.- Wandel von
Siedlungswesen und Lebensformen in der Jōmon-Zeit
TSUJI Seiichirō, Das Ökosystem der Sannai Maruyama-Siedlung -Charakteristika der Kultur und des Ökosystems
der Jōmon-Zeit
HARUNARI Hideji, Von der Jōmon- zur Yayoi-Zeit - Eine Analyse auf der Grundlage des frühyayoizeitlichen
Brauchs der Zahnextraktion und der Gräberbezirke
SHIRAISHI Taichirō, Von der Yayoi- zur Kofun-Zeit - Die Entstehung des Landes der Wa und seiner Kultur
TANABE Ikuo, Eine neue Epoche bricht an: Die Entstehung eines autokratischen, geeinten Staates und die
Übernahme des Buddhismus
Werner E. STÖCKLI, Zum Umgang mit Chronologie und Periodisierung in der europäischen Vorgeschichte
201 pages
Softcover (ISBN: 3891299478) EUR 30,40 |
MIZOGUCHI, Koji: Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan (Cambridge Studies
in Archaeology), Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press 2006.
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Book Description
This bold and illuminating study examines the role of archaeology in the formation of the modern Japanese
nation and explores the processes by which archaeological practice is shaped by national social and
intellectual discourse. Leading Japanese archaeologist Koji Mizoguchi argues that an understanding of
the past has been a central component in the creation of national identities and modern nation states
and that, since its emergence as a distinct academic discipline in the modern era, archaeology has played
an important role in shaping that understanding. By examining in parallel the uniquely intense process
of modernisation experienced by Japan and the history of Japanese archaeology, Mizoguchi explores the
close interrelationship between archaeology, society and modernity, helping to explain why we do archaeology
in the way that we do. This book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the history of
archaeology or modern Japan.
200 pages
Hardback (ISBN: 0521849535) $80.00 |
PIGGOTT, Joan R. (ed.): Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese
Historians Interpreted in English (Cornell East Asia Series), Cornell University Press 2006.
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Book Description
This volume, edited by Joan Piggott (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), includes
fourteen essays, originally written in Japanese and here interpreted in English. It introduces
readers to a broader array of historical and archaeological research on center-periphery relations
than has ever before been available to English readers. Each essay has been translated, annotated,
and introduced by a specialist who selected it for its invaluable contribution to his or her own
work, and who here renders it into English for a non-specialist audience.
The book features thirteen newly created maps, and also includes an exhaustive list of sources
(including Chinese characters). Together with its readable and well-annotated text, extensive
glossary, rich bibliography, and comprehensive index, these combined tools make for a valuable
resource to scholars and students interested in premodern Japan.
Researchers whose work has been interpreted include Tsude Hiroshi, Kobayashi Yukio, Hara Hidesaburô,
Inoue Tatsuo, Takahashi Tomio, Takeda Sachiko, Hotate Michihisa, Morita Tei, Sasaki Muneo, Toda
Yoshimi, Miyazaki Yasumitsu, Motoki Yasuo, Ishimoda Shô, and Koyama Yasunori. Scholar-interpreters
include Mikael Adolphson, Michiko Aoki, Bruce Batten, Walter Edwards, Karl Friday, Jan Goodwin,
Gustav Heldt, and Joan Piggott.
"Particularly for those interested in the complex and often inaccessible world of Japanese
historiography for what the translators label
"the classical age."
This volume will prove a handy guide. . . .[It] will allow Anglophone historians a look at the
assumptions, methods, and interpretations of our Japanese colleagues in all their intricacy."
-Monumenta Nipponica
(from the website of the publisher)
496pages
Hardback (ISBN: 978-1-885445-29-2) $75.00 |
VERSCHUER,
Charlotte von, translated by Kristen Lee HUNTER: Across the
Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries (Cornell East Asia Series), Cornell University Press 2006.
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Book Description
Originally published as Le commerce extérieur du Japon des origines au XVIe siècle in 1988, this new
edition of the landmark French study chronicles Japan’s transformation from an importer of
continental luxury items, raw materials, and techniques to an exporter of high-quality merchandise
over nearly a millennium. The vicissitudes of foreign trade policy, as well as the volume and
balance of trade, are examined within the context of regional political and economic developments.
All aspects of state-sanctioned and unofficial external commerce are considered. Indeed, this volume
reveals that proliferation of private foreign trade constituted a vital link between Japan and its
neighbors throughout the suspension of diplomatic relations from the ninth to the fourteenth
century. Evidence culled from Japanese, Chinese, and Korean annals and administrative compendia,
archaeological excavations, classic literature, artifact collections, and monk and courtier diaries
attests to the spectacular diversity of foreign trade goods and their significance in pre-Tokugawa
Japanese society.
Methodically revised, and featuring an updated, expanded bibliography and redesigned maps, as well
as a précis on the state of the field since the original publication, the 2006 English edition is an
indispensable resource for scholars and the teaching of premodern East Asian regional history.
(from the website of the publisher)
244 pages
hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-933947-03-7) $54.00
paperback (ISBN: 978-1-933947-33-4) $25.00 |
BACUS, Elizabeth A., Ian C. GLOVER, Vincent C. PIGGOT (eds.):
Uncovering Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the
European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. NUS Press 2006.
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Book Description
The 36 chapters in this collection have been selected to give an overview of recent research into
prehistoric and early historic archaeology in Southeast Asia. In the first chapter Her Royal
Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand comments on the significance of the inscriptions
from the important Khmer temple, Prasat Phnom Rung in northeastern Thailand. Following this,
Professor Charles Higham gives an original and insightful survey of the prehistoric threads linking
south China and the countries of modern Southeast Asia.
The writers in this book are all engaged in archaeological and historical research in the region,
and they range from senior professional academic teachers to new students just starting to make
their contributions to an evolving story of the past of many of the nation states of modern
Southeast Asia. The essays are organised into 7 broad themes: the late Pleistocene and early
Holocene communities; new perspectives on the Neolithic; Bronze and Iron Age mortuary practices;
Iron Age landscapes and cultures; emerging early states and trading ports; urban landscapes; and
regional and long-distance exchange relations.
This book makes a significant contribution to the knowledge of a complex, dynamic and multiethnic
region whose peoples have roots deep into the past.
(from the website of the publisher)
464 pages
(ISBN: 9971693518 ) Paperback US$75.00 S$120.00 |
NELSON, Sarah M. , Anatoly P. DEREVIANKO, Yaroslav V. KUZMIN and Richard L. LAND (eds.):
Archaeology of the Russian Far East. BAR International Series 1540, Oxford: Archaeopress 2006.
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Book Description
The archaeology of the Russian Far East is rich in new and sometimes surprising discoveries. Very
early pottery dates, in several locations, are perhaps the most important and interesting of these
finds. Connections with other parts of the Far East are also established in these new studies. The
chapters that follow in this regional synthesis elaborate these themes. Arranged in chronological
order and by region, each is written by a specialist who has participated in some or all of the
archaeological expeditions reported here. The chapters are replete with archaeological details,
allowing the reader to judge the interpretations independently. Illustrations and maps add to the
information provided. They show not just the unanticipated richness of the archaeology of the
Russian Far East but, more important, the contributions these sites can make to the archaeology of
the region and of the world.
Contents:
1) Introduction (Sarah M. NELSON)
2) Palaeoenvironment and Chronology (Yaroslav V. KUZMIN)
3) Palaeolithic of the Primorye (Maritime) Province (Anatoly P. DEREVIANKO and Andrei V. TABAREV)
4) Palaeolithic of the Priamurye (Amur River Basin) (Anatoly P. DEREVIANKO, Vasily N. ZENIN, and Igor Y. SHEWKOMUD)
5) The Upper Palaeolithic of Sakhalin Island (Aleksander A. VASILEVSKY)
6) Neolithic of the Primorye (Irina S. ZHUSHCHIKHOVSKAYA)
7) Neolithic of the Nizhnee Priamurye (Lower Amur River Basin) (Anatoly P. DEREVIANKO and Vitaly E. MEDVEDEV)
8) Neolithic of the Sakhalin and Southern Kurile Islands (Aleksander A. VASILEVSKY and Olga A. SHUNBINA)
9) Palaeoeconomy of the Russian Far East (Stone Age Complexes) (Yaroslav V. KUZMIN)
10) Conclusion (Richard L. BLAND).
(from the website of the publisher)
191 pages
(ISBN: 1841719722) £36.00 |
OXENHAM, Marc and Nancy TAYLES (eds.):
Bioarchaeology of South East Asia. Oxford: Cambridge UP 2006.
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Book Description
This is the first book to examine directly the biology and lives of the people
of South East Asia. Bringing together the most active researchers in late Pleistcene/Holocene
Southeast Asian human osteology, the book deals with two major approaches to studying human skeletal
remains. Using analysis of the physical appearance of the region's past peoples, the first section
explores such issues as the first peopling of the region, the evidence for subsequent migratory
patterns (particularly between Southeast and Northeast Asia) and counter arguments centring on in
situ micro-evolutionary change. The second section reconstructs the health of these same people
in the context of major economic and demographic changes over time, including those changes caused
by the adoption or intensification of agriculture. Written for archaeologists, bioarchaeologists and
biological anthropologists, it is a fascinating insight into the bioarchaeology of this important
region.
(from the website of the publisher)
360 pages, b/w pls and tabs
(ISBN: 0521825806) £75.00 |
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