Prehistoric societies on the northern frontiers of China : archaeological perspectives on identity formation and economic change during the first millennium BCE / Gideon Shelach
PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SEEDS OF THE NEW ORDER: HOW EAST ASIA CHANGED DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1100-600 BCE -- OUTLINE OF THE BOOK 13 -- CHARTING THE CHANGE: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD ABOUT CHANGES THAT OCCURRED BETWEEN 1100-600 BCE. -- GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND -- NAMING THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTHERN ZONE: CAN IT BE DONE AND IS IT IMPORTANT? -- CONTINUITY OR CHANGE? THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA OF THE NORTHERN ZONE -- Ceramics and Artifacts of Daily Use -- Metallurgy -- Habitation Sites and Settlement Patterns -- Burial Practices and Ceremonial Expressions -- Conclusions: Dimensions of Continuity and Change -- IS IT THE ECONOMY? ECONOMICAL AND POLITICAL PROCESSES IN THE NORTHERN ZONE. -- CHANGES IN CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR -- CHANGES IN PRODUCTION STRATEGIES -- EXTERNAL MODELS OF ECONOMIC CHANGE: THE MAGNITUDE OF CLIMATIC CHANGE AND ITS EFFECT ON ECONOMIC ADAPTATION -- SOCIAL MODELS FOR THE GENESIS OF PASTORALISM IN THE NORTHERN ZONE -- SYMBOLS AND IDENTITY: THE DRAWING OF MENTAL BOUNDARIES -- THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- THE SYMBOLS AND IDENTITIES OF THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTHERN ZONE
PRESTIGE AND GENDER IDENTITIES: IDENTIFYING IDENTITIES THROUGH STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF BURIAL DATA -- ETHNIC-LIKE IDENTITY AND THE ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL GRAVES. -- THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANIPULATION OF SOCIAL IDENTITY DURING THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BCE (WHY NOW, WHY SO MUCH?) -- LOCAL, REGIONAL AND GLOBAL: INTERACTION SPHERES AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE STUDY OF ANCIENT INTERACTIONS AMONG SOCIETIES IN CHINA AND THE EURASIAN STEPPE -- ANCIENT INTERACTIONS AND THEIR EFFECTS: THEORIES RELATING TO THE INTERACTIONS IN THE PRE-MODERN WORLD. -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF INTER-SOCIETY INTERACTIONS DURING THE SECOND AND FIRST MILLENNIA BCE -- Evidence of Early Interactions -- Evidence of Interactions during the Late Third and Early Second Millennia BCE -- Evidence of Interactions During the Late Second and First Half of the First Millennia BCE -- THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL: LONG-RANGE INTERACTIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE NORTHERN ZONE. -- Migration -- Trade -- World System and Center-Periphery Models -- Interaction and Identity -- CONCLUSIONS: ARCHAEOLOGICAL VERSUS HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PROCESSES DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BCE AND BEYOND -- Bibliography -- GLOSSARY -- APPENDIXES -- Index
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-187) and index
