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Ancient Central China: Centers and Peripheries along the Yangzi River
Rowan K. Flad
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paperback. An up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone. Series: Case Studies in Early Societies. Num Pages: 428 pages, 63 b/w illus. 16 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HDD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 678. Centers and Peripheries Along the Yangzi River. Series: Case Studies in Early Societies. 428 pages, 63 b/w illus. 16 maps. An up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1FPC; HDD. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight: 678.
Ancient Central China provides an up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone. It focuses on the Late Neolithic (late third millennium BC) through the end of the Bronze Age (late first millennium BC) and considers regional and interregional cultural relationships in light of anthropological models of landscape. Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen show that centers and peripheries of political, economic and ritual activities were not coincident, and that politically peripheral regions such as the Three Gorges were crucial hubs in interregional economic networks, particularly ... Read more
Ancient Central China provides an up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone. It focuses on the Late Neolithic (late third millennium BC) through the end of the Bronze Age (late first millennium BC) and considers regional and interregional cultural relationships in light of anthropological models of landscape. Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen show that centers and peripheries of political, economic and ritual activities were not coincident, and that politically peripheral regions such as the Three Gorges were crucial hubs in interregional economic networks, particularly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
428
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Case Studies in Early Societies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
428
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521727662
SKU
V9780521727662
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About Rowan K. Flad
Rowan K. Flad is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He has received grants from the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Luce Foundation, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation and the American Philosophical Foundation, among others. He has been a traveling lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America and has published extensively on archaeology in China in many edited volumes ... Read more
Reviews for Ancient Central China: Centers and Peripheries along the Yangzi River
'Ancient Central China is replete with up-to-date information (especially on Sichuan and the Three Gorges) and the authors' work at Zhongba and on the Chengdu Plain is a shining example of what is possible in Chinese archaeology. The history of scholarship in the region is especially rich and the authors' synthesis of palaeo-climate and geography is the best I know ... Read more