Prehistoric maritime cultures and seafaring in East Asia / Chunming Wu, Barry Vladimir Rolett, editors.

This book focuses on prehistoric East Asian maritime cultures that pre-dated the Maritime Silk Road, the'Four Seas'and'Four Oceans'navigation system recorded in historical documents of ancient China. Origins of the Maritime Silk Road can be traced to prosperous Neolithic and Meta...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Wu, Chunming (Editor), Rolett, Barry Vladimir (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2019]
Series:Archaeology of Asia-Pacific navigation ; v. 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • A synthetic analysis of the Neolithic origins of eastern and southeastern Asia's maritime silk road / Chunming Wu
  • A maritime route brought first farmers to mainland Southeast Asia / Charles F.W. Higham
  • The origins, expansion and decline of early hunter-gatherers along the South China coast / Hsiao-chun Hung and Chi Zhang
  • Pollen evidence for human-induced landscape change reveals the history of agricultural development in southeastern China / Ting Ma and Zhuo Zheng
  • Subsistence patterns associated with shell middens from the pre-Qin period in the coastal region of China / Luo Zhao
  • A preliminary analysis of the development of Neolithic culture in coastal region of Guangdong / Yan Li
  • Early maritime subsistence and adaptive ocean cultures along the Beibu Gulf coast / Zhen Li
  • The late Neolithic to early Bronze Age on the northeastern coast of Vietnam / Kim Dung Nguyen
  • Why rice farmers don't sail : coastal subsistence traditions and maritime trends in early China / Ling Qin and Dorian Q. Fuller
  • Social reciprocity facilitated overseas exchange in early Austronesian cultures / Barry V. Rolett
  • Perspectives on early Holocene maritime ethnic groups of the Taiwan Strait based on the "Liangdao man" skeletons / Chun-Yu Chen
  • Coast to coast : the spread of cereal cultivation in the Taiwan Strait region before 3500 BP / Tuukka Kaikkonen
  • A study of geometric stamped pattern pottery and early maritime cultural interactions between mainland China and Taiwan / Lin Fu
  • Tapa beaters from 5000 to 4200 BP in Taiwan / Su-Chiu Kuo
  • Double-shouldered barkcloth beaters and prehistoric seafaring in South China and Southeast Asia / Maya Hayashi Tang, Kim Dung Nguyen, Mana Hayashi Tang and Chung Tang
  • Prehistoric migration and cultural change in the Philippine Archipelago / Eusebio Z. Dizon
  • Prehistoric Ryūkyūan seafaring : a cultural and environmental perspective / Naoko Kinoshita.