Parution de : The Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau

La maison d’édition Cambridge University Press annonce la parution de l’ouvrage suivant :

The Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau
par Jade D’Alpoim Guedes (Université de Washington) et Mark Aldenderfer (University of California, Merced)

Résumé de l’ouvrage :
The Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau offers a comprehensive survey of past and recent research on the prehistory of the plateau, from its early peopling to the eve of the foundation of the Tibetan Empire in the 7th C. The first English language book-length study of the Tibetan past, it is organized around eight chapters that describe modern and ancient environments, historical speculations about ancient Tibet by mystics, fascists, and contemporary scholars, evidence of the first peoples to live and thrive on the plateau, the arrival of the domesticated plants and animals that transformed the subsistence economy, and the emergence of early forms of status and prestige. The book concludes with a discussion of how the past informs environmental conservation and heritage preservation and explores how archaeological data are used by the Chinese state to create an alternative vision of the Tibetan past at odds with indigenous Tibetan perspectives.

Pour de plus amples informations, voir la page de l’éditeur : https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/archaeology-of-the-tibetan-plateau/13A81C97C0B4293AE5E660C88A6C888B

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