"China's Archaeological Finds in the 20th Century" Off Press

"China's Archaeological Finds in the 20th Century", compiled and co-edited by experts of China Archaeological Research Institute, has lately been published by Sichuan University Press. This is a work claiming the highest academic value, epitomizing the long history of China's archaeological finding in the 20th century.

Experts have compiled the book from a special point of view, their personal experience and first-hand materials found. They saw to it that archaeological finds and entries are introduced according to a chronological order of the Chinese history, namely, Old Stone Age, New Stone Age, Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Wei, Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, and Song, Liao, Kin, Yuan, Ming and Qing.

Starting from excavation of "Peking Man" at the beginning of the century, the work ends at the finding of colored terracotta soldiers and horses of Qin by the end of the century. Each part is well presented both in Chinese and English. Over 700 pictures have been selected to mark the country's important findings along with their finding procedure, contents, value and experts' views and comments. Attached to the work is also a list of archaeological finds during 1809 and 1999 to make it easier for readers to know more and study into the history of archaeological work in China.

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