Basic Readings in English on the Archaeology of Asia compiled by Robert E. Murowchick (ICEAACH Director), May 2002

East Asia Aikens, C. Melvin and Song Nai Rhee (eds.) (1992). Pacific Northeast Asia in Prehistory: Hunter-fisher-gatherers, Farmers, and Sociopolitical Elites. Pullman: Washington State University Press. Barnes, Gina Lee (1993). China, Korea and Japan: The Rise of Civilization in East Asia. London and New York: Thames and Hudson. China Bagley, Robert W. (ed.) (2001). Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum; Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Chang, Kwang-chih (1976). Early Chinese Civilization: Anthropological Perspectives. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series; v. 23. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chang, Kwang-chih (1980). Shang Civilization. New Haven: Yale University Press. Chang, Kwang-chih (1983). Art, Myth, and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chang, Kwang-chih (ed.) (1986). Studies of Shang Archaeology: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Shang Civilization. New Haven: Yale University Press. Chang, Kwang-chih (1986). The Archaeology of Ancient China. 4th ed., rev. and enl. New Haven: Yale University Press. Debaine-Francfort, Corinne (1999). The Search for Ancient China. London: Thames & Hudson. Falkenhausen, Lothar (1995). "The regionalist paradigm in Chinese archaeology." In Philip L. Kohl and Clare Fawcett (eds.), Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Keightley, David N. (ed.) (1983). The Origins of Chinese Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press. Kuwayama, George (ed.) (1983). The Great Bronze Age of China: A Symposium. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Seattle: University of Washington Press. Leng, Jian (2001). Early Paleolithic Technology in Eastern and Southern Asia. BAR International Series; 924. Oxford: J. and E. Hedges. Li, Chi (1977). Anyang. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Li, Xueqin (1985). Eastern Zhou and Qin Civilizations. New Haven: Yale University Press. Qian, Hao et al. (1981). Out of China's Earth: Archeological Discoveries in the People's Republic of China. New York: H.N. Abrams; Beijing: China Pictorial, 1981. Rawson, Jessica (1980). Ancient China, Art and Archaeology. Icon editions. New York: Harper & Row. Rawson, Jessica (ed.) (1983). The Chinese Bronzes of Yunnan. London: Sidgwick and Jackson; and Beijing: Cultural Relics Publishing House. Rawson, Jessica (1987). Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual. London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum in association with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia [by] British Museum Publications. So, Jenny (ed.) (2000). Music in the Age of Confucius. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle: Distributed by the University of Washington Press. Wang, Zhongshu (1982). Han Civilization. New Haven: Yale University Press. Watson, William (1997-1998). Studies in Chinese Archaeology and Art. London: Pindar Press. Wen Fong (ed.) 1980. The Great Bronze Age of China : An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Whitfield, Roderick, and Tao Wang (eds.) (1999). Exploring China's Past: New Discoveries and Studies in Archaeology and Art. International Series in Chinese Art and Archaeology; No. 1. London: Saffron. Yang, Xiaoneng (ed.) (1999). The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People's Republic of China. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art; Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press. Yu, Weichao (ed.) (1997-1999). A Journey into China's Antiquity. Beijing: Morning Glory Publishers. Korea Barnes, Gina Lee (2001). State Formation in Korea: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives. Durham East-Asia Series. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. Pai, Hyung Il (2000). Constructing "Korean" Origins : A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State -formation Theories. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center ; Distributed by Harvard University Press Portal, Jane (2000). Korea: Art and Archaeology. New York: Thames & Hudson. Japan Barnes, Gina Lee, and Richard Pearson (eds.) (1986). Windows on the Japanese Past: Studies in Archaeology and Prehistory. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. Walker, Annabel (1995). Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road. London: John Murray. Central Asia Kohl, Philip L. (1984). Central Asia Palaeolithic Beginnings to the Iron. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations. Southeast Asia Bellwood, Peter S. (1997). Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago. Rev. ed. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Glover, Ian, et al. (eds.) (1992). Early Metallurgy, Trade and Urban Centres in Thailand and Southeast Asia. Bangkok: White Lotus. Higham, Charles (1989). The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia: From 10,000 B.C. to the Fall of Angkor. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Higham, Charles (1996). The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. South Asia Allchin, Bridget (1997). Origins of a Civilization: The Prehistory and Early Archaeology of South Asia. New Delhi and New York: Viking. Allchin, F. Raymond (1995). The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and States. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark (ed.) (1989). Old Problems and New Perspectives in the Archaeology of South Asia. Madison: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin. Kenoyer, Jonathan M. (1998). Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization. Karachi and New York : Oxford University Press. Frequently requested topics (some references may be repeated above) Three Gorges Dam Childs-Johnson, Elizabeth, et al. (1996). "Race Against Time." Archaeology Nov./Dec.: 38-43. Zich, Arthur (1997). "China's Three Gorges Before the Flood." National Geographic 192 (3):2-33. Early writing, Oracle bones Keightley, David N. (1978). Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China. Berkeley: University of California Press. Bronze metallurgy Glover, Ian, et al. (eds.) (1992). Early Metallurgy, Trade and Urban Centres in Thailand and Southeast Asia. Bangkok: White Lotus. Higham, Charles (1996). The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Kuwayama, George (ed.) (1983). The Great Bronze Age of China: A Symposium. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Seattle: University of Washington Press. Rawson, Jessica (ed.) (1983). The Chinese Bronzes of Yunnan. London: Sidgwick and Jackson; and Beijing: Cultural Relics Publishing House. Rawson, Jessica (1987). Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual. London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum in association with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia [by] British Museum Publications. Wen Fong (ed.) 1980. The Great Bronze Age of China : An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.