We might as well start with the best known (to westerners, anyway) archaeology of China: the Great Wall. The 3700 miles of the Great Wall of China, really a series of walls, some as high as 30 feet, was started at least as early as the Warring States period of 500-221 BC.
Sources and Further Information
Lawler, Andrew. 2009. Beyond the Yellow River: How China Became China. Science 325:930-943.
Yang, Xiaoneng. 2004. Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century: New Perspectives on China's Past. Yale University Press, New Haven.
