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Yun
http://www.bu.edu/asianarc/LIBRARY/KC_Chang.htm

"The extraordinarily wide range of K. C. Changs intellectual interests is evident from the bibliography of his works, which follows this introduction (pp. 1-42). He has contributed to a staggering variety of fields; the following enumeration is by no means an exhaustive one. Having started out in palaeolithic archaeology, he subsequently became and remains to this day one of the principal scholars to define the methods and theories of settlement archaeology. He contributed in influential ways to the general methodological debates in archaeology during the 1960s and 1970s. He has been a key figure in building up the now-burgeoning field of Taiwanese archaeology. He has produced the standard synthesis on the archaeology of mainland China (currently being completely revised and updated for its fifth edition) a book that has done more than any other to establish ancient China on the map of modern American anthropological consciousness. Bridging the gap between historiography and archaeology, he has pioneered the anthropological analysis of early Chinese society, and he has written a classic, multidisciplinary study of Shang civilization. He has also variously framed the genesis of Chinese civilization in broader comparative terms. More successfully than any other scholar, K. C. has brought the methods of modern anthropology to bear on the study of East Asian civilization. Indeed, if the study of East Asian archaeology in Western academia has recently been on an ascendant trajectory, this has been in large measure due to his efforts."

(PDF format bibliography of Chang's works downloadable at http://www.bu.edu/asianarc/LIBRARY/KCC_Bibliography.htm )
General_Zhaoyun
What does palaeolithic archaeology means?
naruwan
QUOTE(General_Zhaoyun @ Mar 15 2007, 02:34 AM) [snapback]4879992[/snapback]
What does palaeolithic archaeology means?


It means 古生物考古學. Studying the fossilized remains (including foot prints and any kind of evidence of the environment and how life reacted with it) basically fall in this area. That includes prehistoric humanoids.
lifezard
QUOTE(naruwan @ Mar 15 2007, 06:12 PM) [snapback]4880003[/snapback]
It means 古生物考古學. Studying the fossilized remains (including foot prints and any kind of evidence of the environment and how life reacted with it) basically fall in this area. That includes prehistoric humanoids.


hi

"paleo" means old

and "lithos" means stone

palaeolithic archeaology quite simply means study of how human beings lived in the early stone age


i m forever indebted to KC Chang, it was his books that intorduced me to Chinese archeaology in general and Shang history in particular
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