A Note on Radiocarbon Dates

Chang, Kwang-chih

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A Note on Radiocarbon Dates

Kwang-chih Chang

The Archaeology of Ancient China

A Note on Radiocarbon Dates

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Kwang-chih Chang

PublisherYale University Press

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A Note on Radiocarbon Dates

To the end of 1985 a huge number of Chinese radiocarbon determinations have been reported, the overwhelming majority in various issues of K’ao-ku and Wen-wu since 1972.* They have been used to construct the radiocarbon profiles of the various regional cultures, which appear in the sections of this book dealing with those regions. All of the reported determinations (5570 half-life) have been calibrated according to the system described in “Calibrations of Radiocarbon Dates: Tables Based on the Consensus Data of the Workshop on Calibrating the Radiocarbon Time Scale,” by Jeffrey Klein, J. C. Lerman, P. E. Damon, and E. K. Ralph, in Radiocarbon 24 (1982), 103–50.

* K’ao-ku 1972 (1), 1972 (5), 1974 (5), 1977 (3), 1978 (4), 1979 (1), 1980 (4), 1981 (4), 1982 (6), 1983 (7), 1984 (7), 1985 (7).

Wen-wu 1976 (12), 1978 (5), 1979 (12), 1980 (2), 1980 (7), 1982 (4), 1982 (6), 1984 (4).

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BOOKThe Archaeology of Ancient China

Kwang-chih Chang

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00207

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20247

The prehistory and the formation process of Chinese civilization have long been of interest to world historians. However, knowledge of this period is constantly evolving because much of our understanding of ancient China is based on archaeological data that continues to come to light.

This fourth edition of K.C. Chang’s now-standard text on Chinese archaeology incorporates the latest information that has become available since the end of the Cultural Revolution. Chang has rewritten and reorganized the material, using a new format to discuss the period from the early humans and their Palaeolithic cultures through the first agricultural settlements to the rise and development of the earliest civilizations around 1000 B.C. Chang now demonstrates that several regional cultures developed independently of one another and began to be linked together around 4000 B.C. According to Chang, the interaction of these cultures laid the foundation for the Chinese civilization that we recognize in the early dynasties and in China’s written history. Chang also presents provocative views on the distinctive process of the rise of civilization, urbanism, and the state society in China, as embodied in the Chinese archaic bronzes. The book includes more than 300 illustrations.

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Kwang-chih Chang

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date September 1987 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300037821

EISBN 9780300256697

Illustrations 357

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