Archaeology of Asia

Miriam T. Stark is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. She has worked in Southeast Asia since 1987, and also has experience in North American and Near Eastern archaeology. She has published widely on her research in the Philippines and in Cambodia, and currently co-directs the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project in the Mekong Delta.

Series Editors' Preface vii List of Figures and Tables viii

Notes on Contributors xi

Part I Introduction 1

1 Contextualizing an Archaeology of Asia 3
Miriam T. Stark

Part II Contexts of Asian Archaeology 15

2 Some National, Regional, and Political Uses of Archaeology in East and Southeast Asia 17
Ian C. Glover

3 Archaeology in the Two Koreas 37
Sarah M. Nelson

4 Self-Identification in the Modern and Post-Modern World and Archaeological Research: A Case Study from Japan 55
Koji Mizoguchi

Part III Formative Developments 75

5 East Asian Plant Domestication 77
Gary W. Crawford

6 Asian Farming Diasporas? Agriculture, Languages, and Genes in China and Southeast Asia 96
Peter Bellwood

Part IV Emergence and Development of Complex Asian Systems 119

7 Early Communities in East Asia: Economic and Sociopolitical Organization at the Local and Regional Levels 121
Anne P. Underhill and Junko Habu

8 Sociopolitical Change from Neolithic to Bronze Age China 149
Li Liu and Xingcan Chen

9 Marks and Labels: Early Writing in Neolithic and Shang China 177
David N. Keightley

10 Secondary State Formation and the Development of Local Identity: Change and Continuity in the State of Qin (770–221 B.C.) 202
Gideon Shelach and Yuri Pines

Part V Crossing Boundaries and Ancient Asian States 231

11 Frontiers and Boundaries:The Han Empire from its Southern Periphery 233
Francis Allard

12 States on Horseback:The Rise of Inner Asian Confederations and Empires 255
William Honeychurch and Chunag Amartuvshin

13 Historicizing Foraging in South Asia: Power, History, and Ecology of Holocene Hunting and Gathering 279
Kathleen D. Morrison

14 The Axial Age in South Asia: The Archaeology of Buddhism (500 B.C.–A.D. 500) 303
Himanshu Prabha Ray

15 Imperial Landscapes of South Asia 324
Carla M. Sinopoli

Index 350