Series Editors' Preface vii
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