Gideon Shelach-Lavi Explained

Gideon Shelach-Lavi (born 10 September 1959) is an Israeli sinologist and archaeologist.

Shelach-Lavi his earned bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, followed by a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Pittsburgh, and is the Louis Freiberg Professor of East Asian Studies and the Chair of the Institute of African and Asian Studies at HUJI.^{[1] [2]}

Selected books

• Book: Shelach-Lavi . Gideon . Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China: Archaeological Perspectives on Identity Formation and Economic Change During the First Millennium BCE . 2016 . Routledge . 9781134944880 . 10.4324/978131553928. ^[3]
• Book: Pines . Yuri . Yuri Pines . Shelach-Lavi . Gideon . Von Falkenhausen . Lothar . Lothar von Falkenhausen . Robin D. S. Yates . Yates . Robin D. S. . Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin Revisited . 2013 . Global, Area, and International Archive . 9781938169076. ^[4]
• Book: Shelach-Lavi . Gideon . Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction: Social Complexity in Northeast China . 1999 . Springer . 9781280207174 . 10.1007/b110507. ^[5]

Notes and References

1. News: Prof. Gideon Shelach . Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Asian Studies . 3 August 2024.
2. News: Prof. Gideon Shelach-Lavi . 3 August 2024 . Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
3. Reviews of Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China include:
   • Graves . M. W. . Shelach, Gideon. Prehistoric societies on the northern frontier of China: archaeological perspectives on identity formation and economic change during the first millennium BCE . CHOICE . March 2010 . 47 . 7 .
   • Flad . Rowan . Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China: Archaeological Perspectives on Identity Formation and Economic Change during the First Millennium BCE by Gideon Shelach (review) . Asian Perspectives . 1 . 51 . 134–138 . 10.1353/asi.2012.0007 . Spring 2012. 10125/36664 . free .
   • Li . Min . Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China: Archaeological Perspectives on Identity Formation and Economic Change during the First Millennium BCE. Gideon Shelach . Journal of Anthropological Research . Fall 2010 . 66 . 3 . 10.1086/jar.66.3.20798837 . 20798837.
4. Chatterton . Jocelyn . Yuri Pines, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Gideon Shelach, Robin D. S. Yates (eds.), Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin Revisited . Journal of Global Faultlines . January 2015 . 2 . 2 . 54–56 . 10.13169/jglobfaul.2.2.0054. free .
5. Reviews of Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction include:
   • Milledge Nelson . Sarah . Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction: Social Complexity in Northeast China. Gideon Shelach. 1999. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, xv + 280 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-306-46090-4. . American Antiquity . January 2001 . 66 . 1 . 169–170 . 10.2307/2694330.
   • Barnes . Gina Lee . Gideon Shelach. Leadership strategies, economic activity, and interregional interaction: social complexity in northeast China. xv+280 pages, 42 figures, 22 tables, glossary of Chinese characters. 1999. New York (NY): Kluwer Academic/Plenum; 0-306-46090-4 hardback $69.95. . Antiquity . September 2000 . 74 . 285 . 732–733 . 10.1017/S0003598X00060178.
   • Lee . Yun Kuen . Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction: Social Complexity in Northeast China. Gideon Shelach . Journal of Anthropological Research . Summer 2001 . 57 . 2 . 10.1086/jar.57.2.363157.