The Archaeology of Korea

ISBN-13: 9780521407830 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 324 str.

Sarah Milledge Nelson

Opis

Sarah Nelson's book surveys Korean prehistory from the earliest paleolithic settlers, perhaps half a million years ago, through the formation of the Three Kingdoms and on to the creation of United Silla in AD 668, when the peninsula was largely united for the first time. The author treats the development of state-level societies and their relationship to polities in Japan and China, and the development of a Korean ethnic identity. Emphasizing the particular features of the region, the author dispels the notion that the culture and traditions of Korea are pale imitations of those of its neighbors, China and Japan.

Recenzje

'… the author has succeeded in placing Korea on the 'map of world archaeology'.' Antiquity

Spis treści

List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Environment; 3. Forest foragers; 4. Early villages; 5. Megaliths, rice and bronze 2000 to 500 BC; 6. Iron, trade and exploitation 400 BC to AD 300; 7. Three Kingdoms AD 300–668; 8. Ethnicity in retrospect; Bibliography; Index.