Archaeology of Asia

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