The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology <subTitle>Celebrated Discoveries from the People's Republic of China</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Smyth, Frances P.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Editor</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">7:4</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">UK</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Yale University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>1999</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>284tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, Illustration</extent> <extent>31 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>In the last fifty years, archaeological discoveries have altered traditional beliefs on the formation and development of the civilization of ancient China. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies cover the period from 5000 BCE to the 10th-century C.E. presenting more than 170 masterpieces in jade, stone, ivory bone, pottery, bronze, lacquer, bamboo, gold, and silver. Together these astonishing objects demonstrate that highly advanced artistic cultures originated in and flowered throughout a vast area. Earlier generations of scholars believed that a much smaller area, the Yellow River Valley, was the principal source and locus of Chinese civilization.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Frances P.Smyth, Charles Dibble</note> <subject> <topic>Civilization</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>antiquity</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>China</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">931</classification> <classification authority="ddc">S667-F82</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0894682458</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15533/9.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15533/9.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071506.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>