Archaeology of East Asia : The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan.

Intro -- List of Boxes -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface Multiple editions xiii -- Where is East Asia? xiv -- Dating preferences xiv -- -- 1 Orientation -- 2 Archaeological Organization -- 3 The Earliest Inhabitants (2,000,000-40,000 years ago) -- 4 Innovations of Modern Humans (40,000-10,000 years ago) -- 5 Earlier Holocene Subsistence Patterns -- 6 The Mid-Holocene Social Mosaic (5000-2000 BC) -- 7 Emergence and Decline of Late Neolithic Societies (3300-1900 BC) -- 8 Bronze Age Beginnings (2000-850 BC) -- 9 Early State Florescence (1500-770 BC) -- 10 Eastern Zhou and Its Frontiers (1st millennium BC) -- 11 Pen/Insular Rice, Bronze and Iron (1300-200 BC) -- 12 The Making and Breaking of Empire (350 BC-500 AD) -- 13 The Yellow Sea Interaction Sphere (400 BC - 300 AD) -- 14 Mounded Tomb Cultures (2-5c AD) -- 15 East Asian Civilization (3-7c AD) -- 16 Epilogue: Ancient East Asia in the Modern World -- Appendices -- Endnotes -- Sources for Illustrations and Box and Table data -- Bibliography -- Indices.

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