Cambridge Univ Pr, Date: 1996. Paperback. New. 400 pages. 10.00x6.75x1.00 inches. 1996. Cambridge Univ Pr ISBN 0521565057 9780521565059 [GB]

Paperback / softback. New. This is an up-to-date account the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. It explores the controversy of whether the earliest bronze working took place there. It illuminates issues of indigenous technological advancement and the influence of neighbouring civilisations, and maps the evolvution of the first South-east Asia states. ISBN 0521565057 9780521565059 [GB]

ISBN10: 0521565057, ISBN13: 9780521565059, [publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr] Softcover 400 pages. 10.00x6.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1996]

ISBN10: 0521565057, ISBN13: 9780521565059, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia has been described as an enigma and a challenge. Some specialists have claimed that the earliest bronze working in the world occurred here, suggesting a cultural sequence that fails to fit a world-wide pattern. Others see it as distinct from parallel developments in other parts of the world. This book is the first comprehensive study of the period, placed within its broader regional context. Charles Higham suggests that the adoption of metallurgy followed a period of agricultural expansion into Southeast Asia, originating in the rice growing cultures of the Yangzi Valley. The first acquaintance with copper and tin smelting may have taken place as a result of growing exchange between the late neolithic inhabitants of Southeast Asia and the Shang and Zhou states of the Central Plains of China. The latter provided exotic bronzes, the former adopted the new technology and adapted it to their own needs. However, the chronology remains unclear, and local origins remain a viable alternative hypothesis. When set in a broader comparative framework, the early development of Bronze Age societies in Southeast Asia is found to have more similarities than differences with those in Iberia, the Aegean, the near East and Chinese nuclear area. The author traces the development of Bronze Age cultures into the ...