An account of the remarkable decade of Chinese archaeology from 1972 to 1981, as abstracted from Chinese journals. Volume 2, Prehistoric to Western Zhou, contains abstracts of over 110 articles describing excavations at sites ranging from Paleolithic through Western Zhou.
Albert E. Dien is emeritus professor of East Asian languages and cultures at Stanford University. Jeffrey K. Riegel is professor emeritus in the department of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. Nancy T. Price has published widely on the subject of Chinese archaeology.