Chapter I: PREHISTORY_A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]

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HISTORY OF CHINA

WOLFRAM EBERHARD

_of the University of California_

_Illustrated_

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Berkeley and Los Angeles 1969

First published in U. S. A. by

_University of California Press_

_Berkeley and Los Angeles_

_California_

Second printing 1955

Third printing 1956

Second edition (revised by the author

and reset) 1960

Reprinted 1966

Third edition (revised

and enlarged) 1969

_To My Wife_

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 1

_THE EARLIEST TIMES_

Chapter I: PREHISTORY

1 Sources for the earliest history 7

2 The Peking Man 8

3 The Palaeolithic Age 8

4 The Neolithic Age 9

5 The eight principal prehistoric cultures 10

6 The Yang-shao culture 12

7 The Lung-shan culture 15

8 The first petty States in Shansi 16