Chang Kwang-Chih. The Archaeology of Ancient China

Revised and Enlarged Edition. — New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1968. — 483 p. — ISBN: 0-300-0357-9.In the first edition of this book, published in 1963, the author presented a theory of the development of human culture in China during the late prehistoric and early historic periods. He postulated a continuous cultural development in the so-called Nuclear Area of north-central China, which ultimately spread out in all directions, and reconstructed the cultural growth of early China and its surrounding regions during the period extending from the Middle Pleistocene to the founding of the Ch’in Dynasty in 221 B.C. New archaeological data from China between 1963 and 1966 have confirmed and strengthened Chang's theory at many points, and in this thoroughly revised and up-to-date edition the author presents his current thinking on the ancient Chinese cultural development as well as a wealth of new material and additional illustrations.