Archaeology of East Asia : [electronic resource] the rise of civilization in China, Korea and Japan / Gina Lee Barnes.

Orientation -- Archaeological organization -- The earliest inhabitants (2,000,000-40,000 years ago) -- Innovations of modern humans (40,000-10,000 years ago) -- Earlier Holocene subsistence patterns (10,000-5000 years ago = 8000-3000 BC) -- The Mid-Holocene social mosaic (5000-2000 BC) -- Emergence and decline of Late Neolithic societies (3300-1900 BC) -- Bronze age beginnings (2000-850 BC) -- Early state Florescence (1500-770 BC) -- Eastern Zhou and its frontiers (1st millennium BC) -- Pen/insular rice, bronze and iron (1300-200 BC) -- The making and breaking of empire (350 BC-500 AD) -- The Yellow Sea interaction sphere (500 BC-300 AD).

An introduction to social and political development through archaeology and art in China, Korea and Japan from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times.