The Origins of Chinese Civilization

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David N. Keightley
University of California Press, Jan 1, 1983 - History - 617 pages
 

Contents

The Evolution of the Chinese Environment
3
Ecogeographical
21
The Origins and Early Cultures of the Cereal Grains and Food
65
The Chinglienkang Culture and the Chinese Neolithic
119
of the Yangtze
130
The Relationship of the Painted Pottery and Lungshan
177
Shantung
199
Soviet Views
217
Archaic Chinese
393
The Chinese and Their Neighbors in Prehistoric and Early
411
237
441
Tribe to State or State to Tribe in Ancient China?
467
279
483
Sandai Archaeology and the Formation of States in Ancient
495
When Where and What?
523
Concluding Remarks
565

Further Evidence to Support the Hypothesis of Indigenous
237
Changsha
268
On Bronze and Other Metals in Early China
279
Interpretations of the Recent
297
Recent Archaeological Evidence Relating to the Origin
323
Finding List of Carbon14 Dates Cited
583
297
591
323
596
409
615
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