The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China

This open access book presents multidisciplinary research on the cultural history, ethnic connectivity, and oceanic transportation of the ancient Indigenous Bai Yue () in the prehistoric maritime region of southeast China and southeast Asia. In this maritime Frontier of China, historical documents demonstrate the development of the barbarian Bai Yue and Island Yi () and their cultural interaction with the northern Huaxia () in early Chinese civilization within the geopolitical order of the Central State-Four Peripheries Barbarians-Four Seas. Archaeological typologies of the prehistoric remains reveal a unique cultural tradition dominantly originating from the local Paleolithic age and continuing to early Neolithization across this border region. Further analysis of material culture from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age proves the stability and resilience of the indigenous cultures even with the migratory expansion of Huaxia and Han () from north to south. Ethnographical investigations of aboriginal heritage highlight their native cultural context, seafaring technology and navigation techniques, and their interaction with Austronesian and other foreign maritime ethnicities. In a word, this manuscript presents a new perspective on the unique cultural landscape of indigenous ethnicities in southeast China with thousands of years' stable tradition, a remarkable maritime orientation and overseas cultural hybridization in the coastal region of southeast China.

The first scholarly open access book in the field of prehistoric maritime archaeology in China Demonstrates an innovative perspective on cultural landscapes of the non-Han ethnicities in the prehistoric maritime region of southeast coastal China and southeast Asia Presents a multidisciplinary image of the early cultural interaction between ancient barbarians Yue and proto-Austronesians Reconstructs the hybrid maritime cultural essence of southern China originating from prehistoric seafaring of indigenous Yues and their mixture with historical oversea ethnicities

Auteur

Chunming Wu, Doctorate of Maritime History, Xiamen University. Faculty of the South China Sea Institute, researcher of the Center for Maritime Archaeology and the Belt and Road Institute, Xiamen University. He was the professor of Humanity College of Xiamen University, and visiting scholarship of ACLS & Luce Foundation at University of Hawaii at Manoa, Harvard-Yenching Institute of Harvard University. Wu works on maritime archaeology, and prehistoric archaeology of early aboriginal cultures of southeast China and southeast Asia. He published monograph books as Archaeological Research to the History and Cultures of Prehistoric Aboriginals in Southeast China (1999), The Shipwreck Archaeology in Seas Surrounding China (2003), The Maritime Cultural Interaction between Indigenous Yue and Austronesian (2012), The Archaeological and Historical Research on the Maritime Cultural Heritage (2016), co-edited books as Archaeological Study on Southeast China (1996,1999,2003,2010), The Shipwreck Archaeology at Dinghai Bay of Lianjiang County, Fujian (2011), Journal of Bai Yue Studies (2007, 2011,2012,2015), Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region (2016), Prehistoric Maritime Culture and Seafaring in East Asia(2019), Archaeology of Manila Galleon Seaports and Early Maritime Globalization(2019), and more than 150 papers.

Contenu
Introduction.- Part I: The Historical Record of the Barbarians Yue and Maritime Yi in the Southeast Frontier of Ancient Chinese Civilization.- Chap.1, Central State- Four Peripheries Barbarians- Four Seas: the Spatially Cultural Order of Land-Sea Interaction of Early Chinese Civilization.- Chap.2, Southeastern Peripheries of Huaxia: the Historical Cultural Interaction and Assimilation from Southern Man and Bai Yue to Island Yi and Foreign Maritime Fan.- Part II: The Archaeological Exploration on the Prehistoric Cultures in the Maritime Region of Southeast Asia.- Chap.3, The Local Paleolithic Cultural Inheriting of the Maritime Region of Southeast Asia during the Early Neolithization around 10,000 years ago.- Chap.4, The Cultural Influence of Northern Huaxia in the Indigenous System of Geometric Stamped Pattern Pottery Remains of Southeast China During Neolithic, Bronze and Early Iron age.- Part III : The Ethnographical Investigation of the Maritime Cultural Heritages of the Indigenous Yues in Southeast China.- Chap. 5, The Inheritance of Island Yi and the Acculturation of Foreign Maritime Fan: The Cultural History of Maritime Essence of the Han People in South Coast of China.- Chap.6, Ethno-archaeological Analysis on the Straw and Bark Weaving Culture of Island Yi and Southern Man in Southern China and Southeast Asia.- Chap.7, Searching for the Prehistoric Seafaring Tool between Southeast Coast of China and Pacific Islands.- Chap.8, A Comparative Study of the Astronomical Navigation between Ancient China and Pacific Austronesian.- Part IV: Conclusion.- Chap.9, An Academic Overview on the Research of Cultural Relation of Ancient Indigenous Yue of Southeast Coast of China and Pacific Austronesian.