Archaeology of Asia

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.

“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

• Series Editors' Preface vii List of Figures and Tables viiiNotes on Contributors xiPart I Introduction 11 Contextualizing an Archaeology of Asia 3Miriam T. StarkPart II Contexts of Asian Archaeology 152 Some National, Regional, and Political Uses of Archaeology in East and Southeast Asia 17Ian C. Glover3 Archaeology in the Two Koreas 37Sarah M. Nelson4 Self-Identification in the Modern and Post-Modern World and Archaeological Research: A Case Study from Japan 55Koji MizoguchiPart III Formative Developments 755 East Asian Plant Domestication 77Gary W. Crawford6 Asian Farming Diasporas? Agriculture, Languages, and Genes in China and Southeast Asia 96Peter BellwoodPart IV Emergence and Development of Complex Asian Systems 1197 Early Communities in East Asia: Economic and Sociopolitical Organization at the Local and Regional Levels 121Anne P. Underhill and Junko Habu8 Sociopolitical Change from Neolithic to Bronze Age China 149Li Liu and Xingcan Chen9 Marks and Labels: Early Writing in Neolithic and Shang China 177David N. Keightley10 Secondary State Formation and the Development of Local Identity: Change and Continuity in the State of Qin (770–221 B.C.) 202Gideon Shelach and Yuri PinesPart V Crossing Boundaries and Ancient Asian States 23111 Frontiers and Boundaries:The Han Empire from its Southern Periphery 233Francis Allard12 States on Horseback:The Rise of Inner Asian Confederations and Empires 255William Honeychurch and Chunag Amartuvshin13 Historicizing Foraging in South Asia: Power, History, and Ecology of Holocene Hunting and Gathering 279Kathleen D. Morrison14 The Axial Age in South Asia: The Archaeology of Buddhism (500 B.C.–A.D. 500) 303Himanshu Prabha Ray15 Imperial Landscapes of South Asia 324Carla M. SinopoliIndex 350