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Article: Breakout: The Origins of Civilization.(Book Review)
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- Journal of World History
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- December 1, 2003
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Edited by MARTHA LAMBERG-KARLOVSKY. Peabody Museum Monographs, 9. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 2000. xx + 131 pp. $25.00 (paper).
This book is a collection of articles on the origins of civilizations, beginning with a remarkable article by the American-Chinese archaeologist K. C. Chang (1931-2001). In 1983 he had published a small book, Art, Myth, and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China, I in which he described the origin of civilization in China as the rise of political authority and explained this rise in terms that were almost purely nonmaterial. In the Bronze Age of China (perhaps ...