The Archaeology of Hong Kong

The Archaeology of Hong Kong
Author: William Meacham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN:
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The aim of this book is simply to present a very general and concise review of the most salient data, to serve as a summary of the first eighty years of archaeology in the territory.

The Archaeology of Korea

The Archaeology of Korea
Author: Sarah M. Nelson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1993-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521407830
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The author examines the evolution of state-level societies and their relationship to polities in Japan and China.

The Hong Kong Region 1850-1911

The Hong Kong Region 1850-1911
Author: James Hayes
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9888139118
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First published in 1977, The Hong Kong Region is a historical reconstruction of long-settled vil­lage and township society in Hong Kong's New Territories between 1850 and 1911. The book's central argument is that the gentry and bureau­cracy played almost no role in these commu­nities, which were run by local peasants and shopkeepers who had to deal virtually unaided with routine administration and with every form of disaster, natural or man-made. A sub­stantial new introduction reviews the research and its wider implications for our understand­ing of traditional Chinese society in the light of later scholarly studies.

Archaeology and Culture in Southeast Asia

Archaeology and Culture in Southeast Asia
Author: Wilhelm G. Solheim (II.)
Publisher: UP Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789715425087
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A synthesis of almost four decades of articulation on the Nusantao by the senior practitioner of archaeology in Southeast Asia. This book draws on his knowledge of networks of interactions existing in various time depths, peopled by what he generally labels Nusantao.

Boats of the World

Boats of the World
Author: Sean McGrail
Publisher:
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2004
Genre: Boats and boating
ISBN: 0199271860
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Maritime archaeology, the study of man's early encounter with the rivers and seas of the world, only came to the fore in the last decades of the twentieth century, long after its parent discipline, terrestrial archaeology, had been established. Yet there were seamen long before there werefarmers, navigators before there were potters, and boatbuilders before there were wainwrights. In this book Professor McGrail attempts to correct some of the imbalance in our knowledge of the past by presenting the evidence for the building and use of early water transport: rafts, boats, and ships.

First Farmers

First Farmers
Author: Peter Bellwood
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2004-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0631205659
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First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan