"The products of minds as well as of hands": Production of prestige goods in the neolithic and early state periods of China

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-40

  Liu, Li ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; China; Neolithic; Prestige goods; Ritual objects; State formation

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MANUFACTURING; NEOLITHIC; STATE BUILDING;

CHINA;

EID: 0042701480     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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