The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China

Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie shell containers--has given archaeologists and historians a glimpse of the extraordinary wealth, artistry, and power exercised by highland leaders over the course of the first millennium BC.

שנה

2016

שפה

English

הוצאה

Oxford University Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

288

ISBN

9780199367344

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata