Institutions and Environment in Ancient Southern East Asia (3000 BCE to 300 CE)

af Maxim (Universitat Heidelberg) Korolkov

Over the past decades, archaeological exploration of southern China has shattered the image of primitive indigenous people and their pristine environments. It is known, for example, that East Asia's largest settlements and hydraulic infrastructures in the third millennium BCE were located in the Yangzi valley, as were some of the most sophisticated metallurgical centers of the following millennium. If southern East Asia was not a backward periphery of the Central Plains, then what created the po... (Læs mere)