Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. List of Figures, Tables, and Maps X
4. Abbreviations XIV
5. Contributors XV
6. Preface XIX
7. PART ONE. ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE
8. 1. The Evolution of the Chinese Environment 3
9. 2. The Domestication of Plants in China: Ecogeographical Considerations 21
10. 3. The Origins and Early Cultures of the Cereal Grains and Food Legumes 65
11. 4. Swidden Cultivation of Foxtail Millet by Taiwan Aborigines: A Cultural Analogue of the Domestication of Setaria italica in China 95
12. PART TWO. CULTURES AND PEOPLES
13. 5. The Ch'ing-lien-kang Culture and the Chinese Neolithic 119
14. 6. Origins and Development of the Yüeh Coastal Neolithic: A Microcosm of Culture Change on the Mainland of East Asia 147
15. 7. The Relationship of the Painted Pottery and Lung-shan Cultures 177
16. 8. The Origins of Chinese Civilization: Soviet Views 217
17. 9. Further Evidence to Support the Hypothesis of Indigenous Origins of Metallurgy in Ancient China 237
18. 10. On Bronze and Other Metals in Early China 279
19. 11. Origins of the Chinese People: Interpretations of the Recent Evidence 297
20. PART THREE. LANGUAGE AND WRITING
21. 12. Recent Archaeological Evidence Relating to the Origin of Chinese Characters 323
22. 13. Archaic Chinese 393
23. PART FOUR. TRIBE AND STATE
24. 14. The Chinese and Their Neighbors in Prehistoric and Early Historic Times 411
25. 15. Tribe to State or State to Tribe in Ancient China? 467
26. 16. Sandai Archaeology and the Formation of States in Ancient China: Processual Aspects of the Origins of Chinese Civilization 495
27. 17. The Late Shang State: When, Where, and What? 523
28. Concluding Remarks 565
29. Finding List of Carbon-14 Dates Cited 583
30. Index and Glossary 587