Archaeology of Asia (eBook)

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

"Miriam Stark has performed a monumental service to global
archaeology by selecting the most important cross-cultural themes
in Asian archaeology and many of the most innovative writers to
discuss them." Gina L. Barnes, University of
Durham

"Offering remarkable coverage of the world's largest
continent, Stark has created an outstanding book that should be
required reading for any archaeologist or historian interested in
Asia." John Olsen, University of Arizona

"This volume is the seventh in the series Blackwell Studies
in Global Archaeology, a series intended to cover the central
areas of undergraduate archaeological teaching. While this is
certainly a sustainable market for the series, this particular
volume presents an overview and depth that will also, and perhaps
more so, be a welcome addition to the libraries of postgraduate and
research archaeologists ... Stark has assembled a valuable resource
made all the more useful by not shying away from the scholarly and
national politics reflected in so much Asian Archaeology"
Australian Archaeology