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MEMBER NEWS (in alpha-order):

Several new members were incorporated into the Members' Directory published in EAANnouncements 8 without a 'proper introduction.' Details about their interests are listed here to bring them to your attention. Their addresses and contact numbers can be found in the Directory.

Thony ABRY in Kyoto corrects his home phone number to 075-712-0197 and informs us of his Email addresses: [...]

Jean AIGNER (Pre-historic through early historic Chinese archaeology) After many years in Fairbanks, Alaska, Jean is now Executive Dean of International Affairs at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her research interests include the Chinese Palaeolithic.

Michael ALLEN (Early historic and Medieval East Asian history) Michael is an Instructor of History at Brigham Young University.

Ilona BAUSCH (East Asian pre- & proto-historic archaeology)
Clare Hall
Herschel Road
Cambridge CB3 9AL
Home 354146 or 330293
Ilona is a student at Leiden University, The Netherlands, in Japanese studies. She has finished her undergraduate course work and is now writing her scriptie, equivalent to the MA thesis. Her chosen topic is Jomon figurines. She is spending the year at Cambridge University as an Erasmus Exchange Student.

Barry BLAKELEY (Pre-historic through early historic Chinese archaeology and history)
Barry is affiliated with Seton Hall University, New Jersey, and his research interest is in Chu history and culture.

C. Loring BRACE (Biological Anthropology of East Asia)
Museum of Anthropology
University Museums Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
Home 313-769-4051
Work 313-936-2951
FAX 313-763-6490 attn. Jill Morrison
Email: [...]
Loring is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is in the middle of a cooperative project with Pan Qifeng of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, working on the relations measured in terms of craniofacial dimensions between Neolithic, Bronze Age, and recent inhabitants of all of eastern Asia, and testing these against the peoples of Oceania and the New World. Fieldwork in China is complete, and his Chinese colleague is now working on the collections in the Smithsonian.

Susan BUSH (Medieval Chinese archaeology and art history)
Susan is affiliated with the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Chun CHEN (Prehistoric East Asian archaeology)
Chun has recently completed his dissertation, "A Comparison of Microblade Cores from East Asia and Northwestern North America: tracing prehistory relationships," for McGill University in Montreal.

Elizabeth CHILDS-JOHNSON (Prehistoric through early historic Chinese  archaeology and art history)
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY 13323 USA
Home 212-628-7852
Work 315-859-4233
FAX 315-859-4632
Elizabeth took up an Assistant Professorship in Art History in 1991 and quickly organized an exhibition of Chinese funerary figurines last year at the college's Emerson Gallery, 21 Nov 92 - 6 Jan 92. The exhibit focussed "on major types such as supernatural guardian monsters called zhenmushou, powerful guardian warriors called zhenmuren, chow dogs, and demure servant ladies of the court." (quoted from Newsletter EAAA 40: 8, May '92). She also chaired a symposium at Hamilton on 5 Dec 91 on "Art and Society in Contemporary China", which included one paper of anthropological interest on "Uses of the past in contemporary China," by Ellen Laing (Univ. Oregon).
Her current research is two-pronged: 1) The Liangzhu culture and the civilization of early China; and 2) Shang ritual bronzes: imagery and function. In April 1992 she obtained a CSCPRC Conference Travel Grant to participate in the "Ba-Shu History and Archaeology" conference in Guanghan, Sichuan.

Brian CHISHOLM (Prehistoric East Asian archaeology)
Brian teaches at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is interested in Japanese archaeology in general as well as greater East Asia. His research concentrates on subsistence and diet reconstruction, archaeological science, and physical anthropology.

Youn-sik CHOO, a Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge, will be spending the year in Korea collecting data for his dissertation on the agricultural transition in Korea. He plans to spend next May in Japan, but until June 1993 he can be reached at:
206 Tong- 502 Ho, Hyundai Apt
Panlim-dong, Changwon 641-180
South Korea
0551-85-8905

Louise CORT (Medieval and early modern archaeology and art history of
Korea and Japan)
Louise's research interests are especially in ceramics.

Teresa DA CUNHA LOPES (Japanese early history, mythology and history of religions)
Rua Condominhas, 732
3o, Dto TR
4100 Porto, Portugal
Work 053-676038 (direct), 676376 (ask for "Ciências Socias")
Teresa is an Assistant at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

Cathy D'ANDREA has taken up a lectureship in British Columbia. Her new address is:
Department of Archaeology 604-291-5790
Simon Fraser University FAX 604-291-4727
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada Email: [...]

Al DIEN sends his new Email address: [...]

Laurence DENES, Paris, has returned from a year's employment in Korea after completing her BA dissertation on "The jar-coffin tombs of the south-west of Korea in their historical context." For her DEA, she studied the excavation report of the Kungok-ni shellmound site (Bronze Age to 3 Kingdoms period) in Haenam at the southwestern extremity of the peninsula. For her Ph.D. thesis she is considering working on the origins of Cholla Namdo stoneware as compared to stonewares in China, Japan and Lelang.

Doris DOHRENWEND (Chinese archaeology and art history)
Doris is an Associate Curator in the Far Eastern Department of the Royal Ontairo Museum, Toronto. Her research interests include Chinese glass and jades of all periods and Chinese Buddhist sculpture.

Erika EVASDOTTIR (Proto- and early historic Chinese archaeology).
Erika is a Ph.D. student at Harvard University working under K.C. Chang in Chinese archaeology. She has previously published under the name of Henriksen (her father's surname), but recently changed her surname to incorporate her mother's name (Eva) in the Scandanavian tradition. She explains, "I have not married and am still a 'Ms'."

Bill FITZHUGH (East Asian and North Pacific archaeology)
Bill is the Director of the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He is organizing the Jesup-2 project [p NOTEWORTHIES No. 15] and North Pacific Research. He is particularly interested in Siberia, Alaska and New World connections.

Doug FUQUA (Prohistoric and early historic East Asia)
Doug is an M.A. student in Asian Studies, with a primary interest in archaeology and early history, at the University of Hawaii and has worked with Bill Solheim. He is now studying in Japan from this fall, on a Mombusho Scholarship. His project involves the Yayoi and Kofun periods. He can be contacted c/o The Graduate Office, Meiji University, Kanda, Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Japan.

Janet GOODWIN (Early historic and Medieval East Asian history)
Janet is affiliated with the University of Southern California-Los Angeles, where she is currently conducting research on prostitutes and female entertainers in medieval Japan.

Sarah HANDLER (Prehistoric-Medieval East Asian art history)
Sarah is a Research Curator at the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in Renaissance, California. Her main research interest is the history of Chinese furniture.

Chuimei HO of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago co-hosted a symposium entitled "Manufacture and Trade: Zhejiang ceramics in the 9th-14th centuries." It was held at the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 24-26 August 1992.

Simon HOLLEDGE currently working at Kodansha Publishing Co., Tokyo, has been made an Honorary Research Assistant at the Institute of Archaeology, London, where he took his MA degree. With this affiliation, he has won a travel scholarship from Nabunken and an invitation from the Institute of Archaeology CASS and the Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, to do fieldwork in China next year.

Jennifer JAY (Medieval Chinese history)
Jennifer is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta. Her current research concerns the history of eunuchs in China.

Laura KAUFMAN (Early historic and Medieval East Asian art history)
Laura is a Professor of Art History at Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York.
Gwon Gu KIM, at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, has informally been appointed to the Secretaryship of ICOM Korea. He says it "demands much administrative work" but is rewarding nevertheless. He also also very busy in organizing many international loan exhibitions of Korean objects in Japan, USA, Spain, Taipei, etc., and is consulting with the British Museum and V&A on their establishment of Korean galleries. During the past summer he made two trips to Japan to oversee the installation of the Kaya exhibit at the Tokyo National Museum and Kyoto National Museum [see NOTEWORTHIES No. 29].

Hideo KONDO of Tokai University has a new FAX number: 81-463-83-8198. There are two recorded messages after which the sender should press the FAX start button.
Jason KUO is currently curating two shows: "Seven Thousand Years of Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection," 9 Sept - 8 Nov 92, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA, and "Word as Image: the art of Chinese seal-engraving," 24 Oct - 12 Dec 92, at the China Institute of America, 125 East 65th Street, New York NY 10021 USA. The later is accompanied by a one-day symposium entitled "Romance of the Stone: Chinese seal engraving" on Saturday, December 5th from 10am to 5pm at the Institute.
In Sook LEE spent the month of September touring glass collections and museums in America. The Asian Cultural Council funded her trip.

Dr. Alfonz LENGYEL (Chinese prehistoric - early historic archaeology, art history and museology)
Fudan Museum Foundation
1522 Schoolhouse Rd
Ambler PA 19002 USA
Home/Work/FAX 215-699-6448
Dr. Lengyel was trained in European classical archaeology at the Institute of Art and Archaeology, The Sorbonne, and switched to Chinese archaeology in 1982 when he became the director of Rosemont College's summer program in China. He is currently Consulting Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University where he founded the Sino-American Field School of Archaeology in 1991. He is also an Advisory Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai and as President of the Fudan Museum Foundation, he is conducting a fundraising program to build the first comprehensive museum at Fudan University.

Katheryn LINDUFF (Protohistoric and early historic Chinese archaeology and art history)
Kathy is a Professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh. She writes that she recently attended the conference "China and the Northern Corridor" held in Hohehot, Inner Mongolia 7-18 August 92.

Richard MITCHELL (Prehistoric through Early historic Korean and Japanese history)
Richard is a Professor of History at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He says that "all my books are on 'modern' subjects"!

Robert MUROWCHICK (Prehistoric through early historic East Asian and Southeast Asian archaeology, history and archaeometry)
Bob has been appointed Associate Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. His new work address is 1737 Cambridge St., Rm. 308, Cambridge MA 02138. Bob also lectures in Anthropology at Harvard University. His current projects include the continuing study of the ancient bronze metallurgy of southwest China and mainland Southeast Asia, focussing on the relationship between the technology and its ritual, social, and political uses. He is also engaged in computer-based satellite image analysis of areas of the North China Plain and southwest China to develop a GIS (Geographic Information System) for these regions that will be useful in archaeological site location and analysis.
Yoshihiro NISHIAKI writes to say that "I have recently passed the viva for my Ph.D. degree at the Institute of Archaeology, London. My dissertation title is Lithic Technology of Neolithic Syria: a series of analyses of flaked stone assemblages from Douara Cave II, Tell Damishilyya, Tell Nebi Mend and Tell Kashkashok II." Yoshi is now employed as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). His contact numbers are 03-3812-2111 x 2823; FAX 03-3815-9565.

NISHIMURA Yasushi (East Asian archaeology and archaeological science)
CAO, Nabunken
2-9-1 Nijo-cho
Nara-shi 630 Japan
Work 0742-34-3931
FAX 81-742-34-4041
Yasushi is charged with the responsibility of developing new methods of archaeological prospecting at Nabunken and has mounted a 4-year inter-institutional and inter-disciplinary project with those aims [p Nishimura report in EAANnouncements 6]. He is also participating in the Smithsonian joint project [p NOTEWORTHIES 6-35] and co-authored two of the papers (by Kobayashi and Kamei) at the recent Archaeometry conference [see CONFERENCE PAPERS].

Katsuyuki OKAMURA announces his new work address and FAX number:
Osaka City Cultural Properties Association
1-1-35 Hoenzaka, Chuo-ku
Osaka 540 JAPAN
FAX 06-920-2272

Masaaki OKITA (Protohistoric and early historic archaeology of Japan and Korea)
1006 Tulip Tree House
Indiana University c/o Department of Archaeology
Bloomington IN 47405 USA University of Indiana
Tel. 812-857-1215 Bloomington IN 47405 USA
After many years as Head of the Tenri-kyo Research Institute of Archaeology and Curator in the Tenri Sankokan Museum, Mr. Okita has taken up a Professorship within the new Department of Archaeology at Tenri University, Nara, Japan. Not yet 6 months into his new post, he is taking a Sabbatical year at the University of Indiana.

Nancy PRICE (Prehistoric through early historic East Asian archaeology and art history)
Nancy is an Independent Scholar operating out of Davis, California.

Michael PUETT (Prehistoric through early historic Chinese anthropology)
Michael is a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago where he is working in Early China studies.

Song Nai RHEE's postal code is 3727, rather than 9983 as given in the Members' Directory. During the month of August and early September, he traveled to Beijing, Huhehote (Inner Mongolia) and Fuxin (Liaoning) for three archaeological conferences. While attending these he investigated the socio-cultural circumstances of the regions contiguous to Korea and Manchuria in the 15th c. BC - 5th c. AD, particularly in relation to Korean state formation.

Maurizio RIOTTO, who teaches Korean studies at Naples University of Asian Studies in Italy, visited Korea this past June under the auspices of the Korea Foundation. He is researching a tale, "Pabo Ondal" [Ondal, The Fool] that dates back to the 6th century Koguryo Kingdom. Another of his research interests is the relationship between the Korean people and the Xiongnu ethnic group around the 3rd century BC.

Laura RIVKIN (Early historic and Medieval Chinese archaeology, history and Great Britain-China Centre art history)
15 Belgrave Square
London SW1X 8PS, UK
Home 071-722-9643
Work 071-235-6696
FAX 071-245-6885
Laura is the Librarian at the GB-China Centre.

Prof. Edward L. SHAUGHNESSY (Early Chinese history)
East Asian Languages & Cultures, W 301
1050 E. 59th St.
Chicago IL 60637
Home 312-987-9808
Work 312-702-5801
FAX 312-702-9861
Ed is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago; his research interests centre on the Chinese Bronze Age. He is currently editor of the journal Early China.

Gideon SHELACH (Proto- and early historic Chinese archaeology)
Gideon holds a President's Fellowship in Chinese Studies at the University of Pittsburgh while enrolled in the Ph.D. programme there.

Edward SHULTZ (Medieval Korean history)
Ned teaches at the University of Hawaii-West Oahu.

Matsutaro SHORIKI (Early historic and Medieval Chinese and Korean archaeology)
Matsutaro is a Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Anthony SINCLAIR (Prehistoric Korean and Japanese archaeology)
Known by his nickname 'Steam', he has a Ph.D. in Palaeolithic archaeology from the University of Cambridge. He has subsequently branched out into the Japanese Palaeolithic (and other areas when he has the time). His research concentrates on the sociology of lithic production and use, sourcing studies, and subsistence economies. Last year he studied the Japanese language at Sheffield University as a Daiwa Scholar. He is now in Japan with Daiwa support to continue his language studies and study the Japanese Palaeolithic at Meiji University under Prof. Anbiru.

Stéphanie SOUHAITÉ (Pre- and proto-historic Chinese archaeology)
Stéphanie is a student at the Ecole du Louvre.

Audrey SPIRO (Early historic and Medieval archaeology, history and art history of East Asia)
Audrey was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California-Los Angeles when registering on EAANetwork.

Richard STAMPS (Prehistoric Chinese archaeology and anthropology)
Rich teaches at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and is expanding his research interests from the Chinese Neolithic to trade along the Silk Roads. He is also interested in minorities issues.

Nancy STEINHARDT (Medieval Chinese and Japanese archaeology and art history)
Nancy is an Associate Professor in art history at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sarah TAYLOR (Pre- and Proto-historic East Asian archaeology)
While completing an intensive Chinese course at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Foreign Service Officer for the Canadian government this past year, Sarah did some post-excavation work with the Hong Kong Archaeological Society. She now writes to say that she and Patrick Kavanagh are being posted to Beijing from September 1992. Their new contact address is c/o The Embassy of Canada, Dongzhimenwai Street, Beijing 10060 PRC.

Robert THORP (Prehistoric through early historic Chinese archaeology)
Bob, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, is the current Chair of the CSCPRC Committee on Chinese Archaeology. [see NOTEWORTHIES No. 43]

VAINKER, Shelagh (Proto-historic through Medieval Chinese archaeology)
Ashmolean Museum
Oxford OX1 2PH England
Work 0865-278070
FAX 0865-278078
Shelagh is the Assistant Keeper for Chinese materials at the Ashmolean, replacing Mary Tregear who retired in September 1991.

Priscilla WILD (Pre- and proto-historic Chinese archaeology)
Priscilla is an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge and is interested in participating in fieldwork in China. She belongs to New Hall college.

Shoh YAMADA has left his position with Tohoku University upon receiving admission to the Graduate School of Harvard University. He will be studying for a Ph.D. degree in archaeology from August 1992.

YE, Wa (Chinese prehistoric archaeology)
Working now with the firm Dawes & Moore in San Diego, Ye Wa is a native Chinese archaeologist with research interests in the Dongbei region.

Masato YOSHIKAI (Protohistoric and early historic Chinese archaeology)
Masato is a graduate student at the University of Tokyo. He is currently writing his master thesis on Eastern Zhou bronzes and ritual pottery.

ZHOU, Li Ping (Chinese prehistoric archaeology)
The Godwin Laboratory for Quaternary Research
University of Cambridge
Free School Lane, New Museums Site
Cambridge CB2 3RS England
Work 0223-334874
E-mail: [...]
Li Ping recently completed his Ph.D. dissertation at The University of Cambridge on the TL dating of Chinese loess and now holds a Research Fellowship in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia. He is currently constructing proposals for research on Central Asian loessic sites and hopes to extend his work to fossil hominid sites in China. On 4 June 1992, he gave a talk "Chronological frameworks of fossil hominid sties in China and their paleoanthropological implications" at the Oxford University Research Laboratory for Archaeology Seminars.

 

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REVIEWS & REPORTS:

For articles to appear in this section, they should be limited to 1000 words and submitted to the Editor by the issue deadlines stated on the front cover of EAANnouncements: mid-January for the Winter issue, mid-May for the Summer issue, and mid-September for the Autumn issue. The editor reserves the right to edit or decline to print. Please report research here!!
 

Student Report on Excavation Work in Japan
  by Orri Vésteinsson

Orri is an Icelandic student studying North Atlantic archaeology in London. He had the opportunity to participate in Japanese fieldwork and gives us here a European perspective on his experiences.

With the help of EAANmember Simon Holledge, I was able to work on the Mushinai I site in Akita Prefecture from 15 July-12 August 1991. This site was being excavated by the Akita Prefectural Buried Cultural Assets Center, which has 14 permanently employed archaeologists and other permanent staff of around 40. Most of the excavation work itself is carried out by day labourers, who can be as many as 200 depending on the scale of excavations being undertaken at any one time. Apart from this Center, which operates on the prefectural level, there are three smaller units in the three largest cities in the prefecture, Odate, Akita and Yokote. Each has one or two archaeologists who are responsible only for rescue work for the respective city authorities. Akita Prefecture is a largely rural area with a population of 1-1.5 million.

Mushinai I is in the southeastern part of the prefecture, ca. 10 km west of Yokote City, in the lower hills of the western side of the Ou Mountain Range. It is a Final Jomon (ca. 1000-500 BC) or even Epi-Jomon burial ground and midden. The excavation area probably excludes most of the huts belonging to the settlement. The soil here is extremely acid, so absolutely no organic remains are preserved, not even a trace of bones in the graves, nor identifiable ashes in jar burials. Also, the upper deposits have either been eroded by water action or disturbed by ploughing. As a consequence, the excavation was mainly concerned with mapping the extent of the settlement, recovering artefacts (almost entirely pottery sherds-in the thousands) and identifying and recording the lowest levels of graves or pits from jar burials. I worked as an assistant to the site director in the field, mainly surveying, drawing and plotting of small finds but also doing some trowelling and digging. Progress was slow because of ceaseless rains.

In addition to this site, I also worked briefly at the Heijo-kyo site and Saidaiji temple site courtesy of Nabunken, the Kuwasu site being dug by the Osaka City Cultural Properties Association, and the Furu site, with the Tenrikyo Research Institute of Archaeology. With these experiences in mind, I can offer some generalizations and advice to other students planning on doing fieldwork in Japan.

Japanese archaeology can be said to be artefact based (as opposed to site formation or stratigraphy). Most importance is attached to recovering artefacts in the field and the interpretation centres almost entirely on them. Pottery typology and archaeology are almost synonymous in Japan. Japanese archaeology is also very visual, whether it be in recording techniques or presentation. Recording is accomplished by drawing and photography to almost an incredible extent and is preferred over numbering or descriptions. While the recovery and treatment of artefacts is extremely meticulous, other data gets much more superficial attention, if any. In this respect, and some other details of field techniques, Japanese archaeology lags far behind European or American. In other respects, especially presentation of archaeological material and public relations, Western archaeology can learn much from the Japanese.

For foreign students coming to Japan to work, there are some problems. First, the Japanese have healthy work ethics and don't use volunteers. The concept is not really understood, and even if volunteers were accepted, they would not be considered a part of the group, and as a consequence would not benefit much from their stay. As student excavators therefore have to be paid, this can cause problems both in that units may not have the money to pay them and that work visas are not available for short-term employment with units. However, I found that not having a work visa was not a problem outside Tokyo. One should start preparing for a trip at least one year in advance. The student should establish contacts, which the prospective employers could trust, and allow good time for paper work, etc. The other major problem is financing such trips. Although I was paid 7 weeks out of 9, the pay varied from ¥4-8000/day (£18-35) and was not enough to support me while I was there. The expenses can vary considerably. For instance, I had to travel up and down the island of Honshu some 800 km, costing in all some ¥60,000 (£250), and that may not always be needed. While I was in Akita I spent virtually nothing, apart from food and accommodation, which was cheap on Japanese standards (ca. ¥5000/day (£22) with a pay of ¥8000/day). Working in such an area on a similar pay would probably return a profit, but in the more urban areas, things are both more expensive (especially travel) and there are more opportunities to spend money. Some of the units are also able to accommodate people, or arrange very cheap accommodation, but this will vary, as will the extent to which one is taken out for dinner every night. In the 10 weeks I stayed in Japan I spent around ¥250,000 (£1100) of my own money, but as I wasn't trying very hard to economize, I would believe that an absolute minimum of ¥160,000 (£700) would be needed as a security for a 10-week stay.

Institute of Archaeology, University of London,
30-31 Gordon Square, London WC1 UK

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Excavation participation at Byodobo-Iwamuro
  by Anthony C. Abry

Thony is a student in the Friends World Program at Long Island University, New York. He used his excavation experiences at Byodobo-Iwamuro in writing his senior thesis, "The Yayoi in the Nara Basin."

For six weeks in April and May of 1992 I worked on an excavation at the Byodobo-Iwamuro site in Nara Prefecture, Japan. The site was a field, located on the fan of the Furu River near Tenri City in the east central edge of the Nara Basin. Around it are located several other sites dating from the Jomon period to the Middle Ages, and in the north-west are several Kofun-period sites.

Byodobo-Iwamuro has been known for many years; old maps show a mounded tomb located there, but it does not exist anymore. Recent human activity, such as the building of a water reservoir, revealed ancient trenches and pottery from the Yayoi period (300BCE-300CE). The urgency to excavate arose when an 8-story building was plannted to be built there, and a period of one year was granted the archaeologists for excavation. Several ditches were discovered, dated by pottery typology to the Early, Middle and Late Yayoi periods. The ditches form the north-west boundaries to an enclosed area, such as a village. Earlier ditches occur on the inside and therefore show clearly the expansion of the village. Ditch 5 (L. Yayoi) is of great interest since it cuts through the earlier village boundaries. It indicates an interruption in the expansion. This coincides with a find of a pottery jar which strongly resembles a piece from Okayama and Kitakawa site, Osaka, all of which are dated to the Late Yayoi period. The piece from Okayama might have been a present, a trade good or something brought with people from their former home. Comparable vessels are nowhere else to be found in Nara.

Much pottery has accumulated in the ditches and has been reconstructed to make complete vessels. This leads to the assumption that they were not thrown away as garbage but deposited for other reasons such as religious activities, as an offering, or because the people had to leave and could not carry their belongings with them. Incidentally, this time period coincides with a possible time of population displacement due to a rise in sea level which flooded coastal sites. Okayama and Kitakawa are coastal sites. The questions arising are: Did the people from Okayama Kawakita share the same culture, exclusive or inclusive of Nara? Or, did the people from Okayama migrate to Kawakita and then to Nara? Is this pottery only a present? Mountains are natural frontiers and certainly kept coastal and inland peoples apart. However, I am sure that those peoples were not ignorant of each other. Nevertheless, one piece of pottery is not enough evidence for such a theory. The excavation finished August 28th, but research and analysis will last approximately another three years.

Among the features found were holes, a fence, ditches, waterways and wells. The fence might have been used in conjunction with horticultural activities, animal care, partitioning for a trash dump or compost heap. Small ditches and waterways are not always clearly distinguishable. Were they used for drainage or irrigation; were they constructed intentionally or by nature? A ditch for drainage would be older than a ditch for irrigation (which was a later technology) and maybe hold different plant remains (because they carry water at different times of the year).

Among the artifacts were various kinds of pottery, fence remains, a hoe, and wooden post remains. Eventually I learned to recognize pottery shapes and their manufacturing techniques through long hours of scale drawings. A hoe was found-a highly prized artifact. It occurred inside a Middle Yayoi well and is a direct indication of agriculture. The same kind of hoe was found at Karako, a site 3 km away and which was probably a center of commerce during the Yayoi period.

Ecofacts included the lower jaw of a horse, discovered in a Yayoi layer. Since horses are thought to have been introduced at the beginning of the Kofun period, it is assumed that it sunk into this layer by mistake. Also, bones of pig, deer and deer antlers were recovered. Their use might have been as a defense by placing them in the village ditches, prohibiting anybody from trespassing.

The site continued to be occupied during the Kofun, Asuka and Nara periods, after which it became a paddy field. Later, during the Edo period, some houses were built, indicated by postholes and pottery.

All in all, this was a great experience and opportunity for me to work on such a big site, covering several time periods, working in a Japanese team and learning their ways.

1-287 Akasaka-cho, Kinugasa
Kita-ku, Kyoto 603 Japan

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Trip to Nihewan: earliest Paleolithic sites in Northern China
  by Kidong BAE

Kidong gives us here a very personalised perspective on what it's like to do fieldwork in China, mentioning things like climate and personal relations affecting excavation that don't usually get included in site reports. p Clark 1992, and Schick et al. 1991 in RUNNING BIBLIOGRAPHY for formal views.

I had seen some slides of the Nihewan Formation some years ago when several Chinese anthropologists from the IVPP gave lectures on the Quaternary sciences of China at Berkeley, California. The archaeological sites and geological sections shown in the slides impressed me greatly. Since that time, I have wanted to visit the Nihewan sites and finally had the chance in the summer of 1991.

Nihewan is the name of a small village where one of the most extensive geological sections in the Nihewan Basin is exposed nearby. The Nihewan Basin is a huge crescent-shaped basin, ca. 250 km long x 40 km wide, along the Sanggan River in Yangyuan County, Hebei and Datong County, Shanxi. In 1924, it was surveyed for the first time and named by G.B. Barnbour, a German geologist, but it did not get much archaeological attention until late 1970 when Paleolithic evidence was found at Xujiayao, Hutouliang, and Xiaochangliang.

Nihewan is now more famous than ever in the field of archaeology. An international joint team has been formed for excavation of the Donggutuo site, which is thought one of the oldest sites in China. Prof. J.D. Clark (Univ. of California, Berkeley) and Prof. JIA Lanpo (IVPP) led the international team. Profs. Clark and Jia kindly invited me to observe the excavation and visit sites in Nihewan. It was a very exciting trip, but it is not so easy for foreigners to travel to Nihewan-usually requiring special permission. Mr. Liu, a graduate student of the IVPP, spent one day getting permission from the government and arranging train tickets for me. It was about 250 km from Beijing to the Hwachong station in Yangyuan County, and it took about 7 hours to get there.

At the train station, the plateau of the Nihewan Formation looked like a table. When we arrived on top, endless fields of yellow rape flowers opened under a blue sky. It was so beautiful. The field station was located at Datinhwa village. The excavation team rented several sections of a building complex used by the local village government. Profs. Nick Toth and Kathy Schick (Univ. Indiana, Bloomington), Mr. Denis Etler (U. California, Berkeley) were members from the U.S. Prof. WEI Qi was in charge of the campaign on the Chinese side. In addition, Mssrs. LI Chaorong and LI Yi (IVPP) and Mr. XIE Fei (Institute of Cultural Relics, Hebei Prov.) were major Chinese archaeologists on the international team. Prof. Wei and Mr. Xie have co-edited an extensive book on the geology, paleontology and archaeology of the Nihewan formation. Chinese archaeologists have been working in this area since the late 1970s, and the Donggutuo site was surveyed for the first time in 1981 by Prof. Wei.

Donggutuo, Xiaochangliang and Chenjiawa sites are located several kilometres from Datinhwa. The Chenjiawa site was the first I visited, and the day after I arrived, a sidetrip was arranged to this site. The site is situated at low elevation-lower than Donggutuo-which has made some think it is older than the others, but now it is believed to be about the same age. Lowering was probably caused by faulting. It was rainy that morning and so slippery that we could not access the site by jeep. Local people and students carried a wooden sedan for Prof. Jia to get to the site. Donggutuo was excavated by Mr. Xie in 1986. Most of the stone artefacts are now in Bloomington, Indiana for analysis. The stone artefacts were found in a thin and very fine sediment and were concentrated in a radius of 3 m. Several conjoined pieces from the assemblage are believed to indicate that the site was not disturbed very much and that hominid behavior is evidenced at the site. We could still find some animal bones exposed in eroded cliffs near the site. One of the Chinese archaeologists at the site told me that they can collect lots of animal bones after heavy rains even nowadays.

I visited the Xiaochangliang site along with Prof. Wei Qi, Mr. Li Yi and Mr. Etler. Prof. Wei borrowed a shovel from a peasant house at the Xiaochangliang village. I was wondering what for but realized it was needed to make steps on very steep slopes. Three localities were excavated at Xiaochangliang in 1984 and 1990. Mr. Li was a member of the excavation team. Excavation pits still remained although some parts of the sections had collapsed. I was told that about 2,400 pieces of stone artefacts in total were collected from the excavation along with many animal bones. Most of the artefacts were yielded by a dark grey layer about 2 m below the present surface. At one of the localities, a massive lacustrine(?) deposit was overlaid by a sterile bright-grey silty clay deposit. Small shells were reported from the lacustrine deposit. It is notable that most of the 1,500 stone artefacts were found near the boundary of the two different layers. Among the animals represented, hipparion, elephant and gazelle were the most important.

In Nihewan, the weather was unpredictable. On the day I visited Donggutuo, it showered in the morning. But it turned to a wonderful sky-blue sky with patches of white feather-like cloud-after lunch. The road to the Donggutuo site was narrow and very steep in some parts and also very slippery. The site was situated half-way up the slope, which was almost at the end of the road. A pit of 5 x 5 m was excavated and a deposit of about 3 m deep was cut off. The top part of the deposit was loess and was believed to have been formed quite late in time. In fact, the Nihewan Formation was defined by the deposits between the Hipparion layer below and the loess deposits on top. Below the loess, 4 major stratigraphic units were observed. In the bottom layer, cobbles and pebbles with artefacts were exposed, but most of the deposit was believed to have been formed in a fluvial environment of low energy. It was said that the artefacts were mostly concentrated at the bottom of a dark grey silty-clay layer in the lower part of the exposed section. In addition to this pit, several trenches were dug probably for mapping the stratigraphy of the area. One Chinese archaeologist told me about 800 pieces of artefacts and bones were collected, but the total seemingly would be bigger if small fragments from matrix samples were included. Profs. Clark, Toth and Schick were very concerned about site formation processes. They measured the orientation of cobbles at the site and the sizes of cobbles and pebbles and counted them all, too. It was very impressive, too, that the old archaeologist with the silvery mustache held stadia to help a young archaeologist make a map. Prof. Clark looked very strong and energetic in the field. In fact, it was the first time for me to be in the field with him.

I visited most of the excavation localities in this area guided by Mr. XIE Fei. These included the Maliang, Ilpalliang and Banshan sites. The last was particularly memorable. I felt dizzy when I walked on a narrow slippery road along the edge of a cliff to get to the site, looking down the bottom of a valley several tens of meters below. I left the Datinhwa village two days earlier than the international team to make a trip to the Liaoning Province, and on the way back to Beijing, I visited the Hutouliang site that is very important for understanding the development of micro-cores in northern China. The Upper Paleolithic deposit at the site remained on the slope of the Nihewan formation at a considerably high level, about 20-30 m above the present river. At the IVPP, Prof. GAI Pei kindly showed me the material from the site later.

The very flat horizon with flowers and corn, the tremendous quantity of sediment seen on sections of the Nihewan plateau and roof-tile kiln-shaped adobe houses left strong impressions on me. One serious question that I have resulting from my trip is, How did early hominids adapt to the harsh environments of the middle-high northern latitudes during such early times? At any rate, one current problem in early hominid research in Nihewan is dating sites. At present, no absolute date is available for early sites in spite of plenty of bio- and geo-stratigraphic data. However, we should understand that the archaeological research of the Nihewan beds has just begun. I believe that a great deal of new data will come out on early hominid adaptability as the project continues. The results of this research will be extremely important for the study of hominid development. I would like to express my hearty thanks to Prof. Clark, Prof. Jia and the other archaeologists at the Datinhwa village. I wish them great success in this year's research.

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Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

 

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Site Survey in Southern China
  by Francis Allard

Francis spent the 1991-92 academic year at Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, and was able to carry out a two-month site survey for his dissertation research at the University of Pittsburgh.

Between mid-May and mid-July 1992, I carried out a walking survey of the Xinhua Basin, located in Fengkai County, Guangdong, about 15 hours by boat from Guangzhou up the Xijiang River on the border of Guangxi Province. Part of the county is dominated by limestone formations (one such area is named 'Little Guilin' and is being developed as a tourist area). The limestone outcrops are dotted with caves where Late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic materials have been excavated. I participated in the excavation of one such cave in October 1991.

The Xinhua Basin, however, has no such limestone formations and caves. It extends roughly 20 km N-S and 12 km W-E, surrounded on the northwest, east and south by mountain ranges whose summits tower 400-500 m above the central valley. A small opening exists between steep granitic ranges in the northeast of the basin, and the small hills bordering the southwest would not have presented access by humans to the adjoining area. There is one main stream running S-N through the central valley. Many tributaries extend E-W up the hillsides. Many of the small valleys have no permanent streams. The central valley is filled with alluvial deposits up to 100 m thick and carved into numerous hills; the valley bottom is dotted with many (< 40 m high) hills, while higher ridges extend into the valleys further up the basin margins. Many of the hills are well covered with vegetation while others consist of highly eroded, leached red soil. Crops other than rice are cultivated on top of the low hills located beside the streams (and which are not subject to flooding). Any ploughing done there, along with regular erosion of the hills, means that artifacts are often found in large concentrations on the surface and in erosion gulleys running on the sides of the hills. Similar conditions exist on top of the ridges found higher up, where sandy uncultivated soil subject to erosion also allows for the concentration of artifacts.

Nearly 50 sites/artifact concentrations have already been located by local archaeologists in the last decades. Most of these occur on top of low mounds and some low ridges. The materials date to the middle and late Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Han periods. Included are stone artifacts (adzes & axes, some shouldered or stepped; large 'shovels', rings, flakes, ring cores, knives, arrowheads, pickaxe heads); ceramics (both 'clayey' and sand tempered; plates, large numbers of fu sherds and ding feet, stemmed dou; large weng jars, a lot of geometric stamped sherds); and bronze artifacts (ding, fu, knives). These materials from previous surveys were lying confused in numerous boxes in the County Museum. I've managed to sort a good part of it out.

Late Neolithic and Bronze Age burials have also been located, although no clear traces of settlements have been found. It does seem at the moment that the basin saw very little occupation during the early Neolithic, while much late Neolithic and Bronze Age material has been located. Little Han-period material has been found.

Maps of the basin have been difficult to obtain. I had to redraw, from the originals (labelled "only for internal use", i.e. only for Chinese nationals!), all of the required parts of the maps, including contour lines, streams, lakes, roads. One the maps I was able to get dates to 1978 and records the local communes operating at the time. Unfortunately, my contour lines are not detailed enough to identify all of the mounds, but locating the sites and drawing them should be no problem. On one occasion, someone in the Anthro Dept couldn't understand why I would want detailed maps of the area. She thought only geographers could make use of such maps!

'Random' systematic surveys are rarely if ever carried out in this part of China, so I've had to explain carefully what I want to do. In fact, setting up the project has been more difficult that I expected. It seems that a number of archaeologists at the Provincial Museum had suddenly realized what I was going to do (i.e. locate sites on my own, before they could). One of them tried to stop the project, although I had full support from Zhongshan University, the County Museum, the Head of the County, as well as official permission from Beijing dating to last year and which had allowed me to excavate in Fengkai. The objecting archaeologist took issue with the wording of the original permission to do a 'settlement pattern' study, not mentioning 'survey'. My Zhongshan Univ advisor came to my defense, and the Cultural Relics Bureau in Beijing agreed with our plan, and official permission was granted. How unfortunate that provincialism in academia thrives in China. So many lost opportunities for cooperation!

My systematic walking survey covered about 165 hills; the flat bottomland was not surveyed since it is at all times under intensive rice cultivation. The survey took 30 days. An assistant from Zhongshan University was hired as were 4 locals who were trained to collect Han and earlier material in a systematic fashion. For much of the time, the team consisted of 6 people (including myself).

Over 2,000 objects were recovered, almost exclusively sherds and lithics. I looked for relationships between the nature and intensity of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Han occupation and a number of geographical variables pertaining to each site: height, area and 'flatness' of hill top, degree of slope, and distance from the nearest stream and from the central 'axis' of the basin, as well as location with respect to other sites and entrances into the basin. 45 hills were found to be 'empty'; 55 had sites located by earlier investigators but resurveyed by us; and 65 were new sites, some with very little material. While statistical analysis of the material will take some time to complete, some of the preliminary findings may be reported at this time, including the fact that there seems to have been increasing dependence on cultivation through the Neolithic-Han sequence, as made clear from site location with respect to water availability and flat land. Another finding is the apparent absence of population pressure, as well as the 'richness' of centrally located sites of all periods with respect to those situated at the basin's periphery.

I plan a short return trip in the spring of 1993 for completing the artifact analysis as well as to visit another geological basin, this one in northern Guangdong where the well known Neolithic site of Shixia is location. Identification of geographical variables for sites already located but poorly described would allow for a comparison of settlement pattern between the two basins.

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A Two-Conference Report from Japan
  by Gina L. Barnes

This summer I attended two conferences with very different purposes but equally representative of the state of Japanese archaeology today. The first was the 5th Annual Meeting of the Kyushu University-Pusan University Joint Archaeology Research Group, 17-20 July 92, in Fukuoka. Prof. NISHITANI Tadashi kindly hosted me as a foreign observer even though I am not a member of the group, which was established in 1988 specifically to increase communications between Japanese and Korean archaeologists. This is a difficult area of international relations, given past animosities between the nation-states, but good will emanted from both sides. A record number of over 40 Korean lecturers and students attended, not all from Pusan University itself. The annual meeting alternates between Kyudai and Pudae, with the next meeting, on the theme of the 'neolithic' Chulmun and Jomon periods, to be held at Pusan University in late July 1993.

This year's conference theme was "The Bronze Age" including Yayoi. The speakers read their papers in their own languages with each sentence translated successively. This resulted in much wasted time but was apparently a political decision to give everyone equal access. Another approach might have been to distribute written translations to be read while the presentations were being given. Also I noted that the Koreans tended to deal with Korean data and the Japanese with Japanese data, with little common ground for comparison or discussion. Perhaps it is too early in the group's history to expect such substantive engagement-the very existence of such meetings being much more important at this stage. In that respect, they seem to be very successful, and I wish them continued success.

One final observation, but it was interesting to note that the Koreans attending the Kyushu meeting were all from the southern coast with only one or two exceptions. This continues a pattern of interaction from the prehistoric period where these contiguous areas were linked by much greater contact than between the more distant pen/insular areas. In Seoul, one finds the international links forged mainly to North America.

The second conference was a public symposium held in Tokyo by the Fukuoka Board of Education on the theme of "Mural Tombs in East Asia." Two Europeans (myself and Francois Mace from France) and KIM Won-yong from Korea were invited to present papers in Japanese in order to emphasize Kyushu's historical role as a gateway for international communication. The political purpose behind the symposium was to gain the Diet's recognition that a new national museum should be built at Dazaifu, the 8th century government office established in Fukuoka to regulate relations with the continent, where land has already been set aside by the prefecture. This would complement the national museums in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka; but given that the Fukuoka Municipal Museum has just been rehoused in a spectacular new building and that the exhibits cover the international history of the area, one cannot be very optomistic that a new national museum will be built there in the near future.

The symposium was held on a Friday, so that the audience was overwhelm-ingly of the retirement age with a large female component. These groups are the major public consumers of archaeology in Japan today: they have the leisure time, interest and money to travel to sites, visit museums and attend symposia. Without their support, the 'heritage business' in Japan would certainly collapse.

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JOBS & GRANTS

Downing College, Cambridge invites applications from men and women for election to the Daiwa Research Fellowship in Japanese Studies to commence 1 Oct 93 for 3 years. Japanese language facility essential. Candidates must hold the BA degree and should normally be under 32 years of age at the time of taking up the appointment. A pre-PhD Fellow earns #8165/yr; a post-PhD Fellow earns #8683/yr. An unmarried Fellow is provided with free accommodation; a Fellow who resides outside the College will receive an additional #1740/yr. Applications forms obtainable from the College Secretary, Downing College, Cambridge CB2 1DQ, UK. Due 30 Nov 92.

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NOTEWORTHIES

Beginning with this issue, a new referencing system will be adopted for referring to notes in this section. Those in the current issue will be referred to as NOTEWORTHIES No. 00, while those in a previous issue will be referred to as NOTEWORTHIES 00-00, with the issue number before the dash and the note number after the dash.

  1. ROCK ART RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CHINA
    At the recent Rock Art Conference in Ningxia [p Bahn report in EAANnouncements 6], a new organisation for Rock Art Research in China was formed. Headed by CHEN Zhao Fu, who has written the major synthesis of rock art for western audiences, the Association will apparently hold conferences but will not publish a journal as of yet.
     
  2. ASAHI PRIZE
    TSUBOI Kiyotari, former Director-General of the Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute and now current Director of the Osaka Center for Cultural Properties, has been awarded an Asahi Prize for his innovations for large-scale site excavation and survey methods and promotion of interdisciplinary and international archaeological study.
     
  3. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: ARMS AND ARMOR GALLERIES
    The Arms and Armor Galleries at the Met, having had their permanent collection reinstalled for the first time in 30 years, now exhibit ca. 1000 objects of European, American, Islamic and Japanese origin dating from AD 600-1900. Sculptural and ornamental aspects are emphasized in addition to their practical and symbolic roles in war, the tournament, the hunt, and pageants. The Japanese galleries include nearly 40 complete sets of armor, some 150 swords and 3000 elements of sword furniture.
    (condensed from EAAA Newsletter 39, Jan '92)
     
  4. MUSEUM FUR VÖLKERKUNDE, VIENNA
    An exhibit on the art and culture of the aborigines of Taiwan ("Paiwan-Kunst und Kultur der Ureinwohner Taiwans") was held 21 March - 30 June, 1991.
    (from EAAA Newsletter 39, Jan '92)
     
  5. KOREAN CERAMIC TECHNIQUES COURSE
    In June 1992, a course on Korean techniques of inlay, incising and open-work was held at Ewha University in Seoul. It was designed for students who have completed at least an introductory ceramics course and those attending were expected to make their own pottery. The class provided an historical overview of Korean ceramics, and field trips were planned to the National Museum of Treasures (Kyung Bok Palace), National Folk Village, the folk pottery town of Echon, private potters in Byuk Je village, the Yi Dynasty palaces, a Buddhist temple, and the 38th Parallel Demilitarized Zone. For the summer 1993 course, contact: Chung-Hyun CHO, Master of Ceramics and Professor at Ewha University, Seoul.
    (condensed from EAAA Newsletter 39, Jan '92)
     
  6. THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    The opening of the reinstallation of the galleries for East Asian art took place in June 1992. The renovation and reinstallation increase gallery space in that department to a total of 20,000 square feet and feature expanded storage facilities and a new Asian study center. Individual galleries will be devoted to early Chinese bronze and jade, Chinese Buddhist stone sculpture, objects from the Han and Tang dynasties, early and late Chinese ceramics, Korean painting and celedon, and Japanese hanging scrolls, woodblock prints, decorative lacquers, and paintings. A special room will be designed by architect Tadao ANDO featuring Japanese screens.
    (from EAAA Newsletter 39, Jan '92)
     
  7. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
    $14 million have been given to the ROM's Bishop White Committee Far Eastern Endowment Fund by their long-time supporter, the late philanthropist, Dr. Herman Levy. It will be used to acquire Chinese bronzes, jades, ceramics and sculptures as well as Southeast Asian and Korean wares. Dr. Levy had already donated his extensive collection of Sung dynasty celedons and teabowls, Chinese and South Asian sculpture, and Thai and Korean wares to the Far Eastern Department. The great strengths of the ROM's Chinese collections are its ceramic pottery and tomb figurines, Bronze Age material and Buddhist arts, totalling some 70,000 objects.
    (condensed from EAAA Newsletter 39, Jan '92)
     
  8. ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
    ARLIS/NA, sponsored by the Professional Development Committee, maintains an information clearinghouse through which individual art librarians and visual resource professionals may obtain information on opportunities for temporary job exchanges with a Society member. Participation in the exchange registry requires the completion of a standardized data sheet which will be held on file for 12 months (April to April); updated sheets need to be filed annually. Upon receipt, the PDC will match interests and supply information to potential exchange partners. The details and specifications involved in implementing an exchange must be worked out by the individuals. Contact: Pamela J. Parry, ARLIS/NA, 3900 Timrod, Tucson AZ 85711 USA or Jack Robertson, Chair-PDC, Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library, Bayly Drive, Univ of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 22903 USA.
    (condensed from EAAA Newsletter 39, Jan '92)
     
  9. DENVER ART MUSEUM
    The Asian galleries have been closed for reinstallation but are scheduled for reopening in November 1992. Several special exhibitions are planned, including "Pathways to the Afterlife: early Chinese art from the Sze Hong Collection" lasting until October 1993.
    (condensed from EAAA Newsletter 39, Jan '92)
     
  10. INTRODUCTION TO EARLY WOODWORKING TECHNOLOGY
    From July 6th to 10th, 1992, the Institute of Archaeology Summer Schools, University of London, held a 5-day course on the rapidly developing field of 'archaeological woodworking'. The course focussed on the practical aspects of woodworking in Britain from about AD 1 to 1200, primarily using recently excavated archaeological material as its source. The programme was designed to take participants through the recognition and recording of features of woodworking technology, such as timber conversion types and methods, features of tool marks and their dating, evidence for the life history of artefacts or structures, and ancient woodwork as a resource for reconstructing ancient woodland and cultural landscapes.
    The course was made up of informal illustrated talks, sample handling sessions, a visit to a dendrochronology lab, a visit to a leading open air museum of buildings, and sessions in ancient woodland on the edge of London. The woodland sessions consisted of guided walks through different types of ancient 'tree-land', visiting experimental woodworking sites, demonstrations of a variety of different techniques of early woodworking such as 'see-sawing' in the Roman style, cleaving and hewing Saxon building timbers, and making replicas of small wooden artefacts. A maximum of 8 participants had the opportunity to try out various tools and techniques on appropriate materials (green oak, roundwood, etc.). For information on future offerings, contact: D.M. Goodburn, Ancient Woodworking Specialist, c/o Museum of London Archaeological Service, Museum of London, London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN, UK. (from NewsWARP 11, Apr '92)
     
  11. FAUNAL AND LITHIC WORKSHOPS IN CHINA
    Two workshops on archaeological methods sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation and the CSPRC were offered to Chinese prehistorians at the conference center at Zhoukoudian, 2 May - 12 June, 1992; local arrangements were made by the IVPP.
    The instructor for the Faunal Analysis Workshop was Prof. Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (Univ. California, Santa Cruz), an expert on zooarchaeology and vertebrate taphonomy. She works with Neolithic faunas from Africa and aboriginal faunas from North America. Instructors for the Lithic Analysis Workshop were Profs. Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth (Indiana Univ, Bloomington), who are experts on lithic analysis, experimental archaeology and formation of archaeological sites. They have extensive research experience with Paleolithic sites in Africa, Europe, and are now working in the Nihewan Basin. These instructors from the USA were assisted by bilingual Chinese interpreters with advanced backgrounds in these topics.
    Each 3-week workshop offered intensive daily instruction in theory and method of archaeological faunal analysis (mammal osteology, inferring diet, seasonality, butchery decisions, bone fracture patterns, recognizing cut marks, hammerstone marks, animal modifications, weathering) and lithic analysis (technological and typological approaches to stone tools, use-wear analysis, site data collection techniques, data recording and analysis, and spatial analysis). Evening lectures on applications of the methods in North America, Africa, and Europe were offered several times per week. Tuition was free, with participants' institutions paying their transportation to Beijing and lodging and meals at the Academic Sinica Guesthouse at Zhoukoudian; persons successfully completing the courses were given a certificate of completion.
    (from notice circulated by Diane Gifford-Gonzalez)
     
  12. BRITISH MUSEUM KOREA FOUNDATION GALLERY
    The British Museum is delighted to announce a major donation of £1.2 million from Korea to fund a new permanent gallery for the Museum's fine collection of Korean art, to be situated on the north side of the Museum in space vacated by the British Library between 1992 and 1996. The newly-established Korea Foundation, headed by ex-Ambassador Dr. LEW

    Hyuck-in, will donate the money over a five-year period. The generous gift will establish the 'Korea Foundation Gallery of Korean Art' within the King Edward VII building. This splendid gift from the Korea Foundation will add impetus to the Museum's work on Korea. The Museum is also determined to expand activity on all aspects of Korea's past and present, and acquisitions are being made in all areas. In addition, projects for scientific research and publication are underway, and exchanges with Korean academics are also envisaged. (extracted from British Museum News Release, May 1992)
    [NOTEWORTHIES 4 -1]
     
  13. LITHIC CASTS
    Peter A. Bostrom is a specialist in the casting of prehistoric stone and bone artifacts for museum displays, teaching aids and reference. In addition to his major offerings from the Americas and Europe/Egypt he has included a few lithics from East Asia. Available from his lab is a Neolithic point from northeastern China (cast in epoxy) for $14.60+postage, and it is rumoured that he is also making a set of Korean Bronze-age lithics. If you have any good lithics in your own collections, he might be interested to duplicating them for general distribution. Write for his catalogs, which are reference materials in themselves with full descriptions of many objects, essays on the industries and bibliographies. Full colour wall posters of lithic sets are also available as well as a cast of the Sasquatch footprint and the report of its discovery. Lithic Casting Lab, Route 1 Box 102, Troy, IL 62294 USA. 618-667-2447.
     
  14. SUMMER EXCAVATION PRACTICUM IN XI'AN, CHINA
    Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an (Shaanxi) China, Sino-American Field School of Archaeology, in cooperation with the Fudan Museum Foundation offers a summer excavation practicum in combination with two weeks study tour in China. The program is co-sponsored by the University Museum of the University of Michigan. University and college students, as well as high school seniors, teachers, museum personnel and a limited number of interested adults are eligible to participate. Tentative dates are 26 June - 31 July or 16 July - 20 August, 1993. For information on final dates, semester credits and fees, contact: Dr. Alfonz Lengyel, 1522 Schoolhouse Road, Ambler PA 19002 USA. /FAX 215-699-6448.
     
  15. SMITHSONIAN NORTH PACIFIC & ARCTIC PROJECT
    EAANmember Bill Fitzhugh, director of the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian, is mounting a project to study anew the environment and peoples of the North Pacific and Arctic 100 years after Franz Boas undertook and international expedition of the same scope. As described by Joseph Palca in Science, "Boas' 1897 expedition was the first serious look at cultures on both sides of the Bering Strait and how they were related. Now, findings from the original expedition will provide a unique reference to examine how the dramatic changes in that area over the last century have transformed the diversity and integrity of the local peoples." The new project will be multi-disciplinary including anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics and will focus on the "survival of native languages and folklore, the continuity of the indigenous genetic pool, and changes in the social, political, and economic structures of the area's communities." Russian scholars will be heavily involved, and the Smithsonian "may even open an office in Alaska..."
    (quotes from Science 256: 167, 1992).
     
  16. CHINESE ROCK ART SPECIALIST SEEKS SCHOLARLY INTERCHANGE
    Prof. R.W. Bodman (St. Olaf College, Northfield MN 55057 USA) has written to tell us that Prof. SONG Yaoliang (Chinese Dept. East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062 PRC), in his mid-30s and very energetic, is interested in corresponding with Western scholars who might be interested in his work on Chinese petroglyphs on the Chinese mainland. Prof. Song has an excellent collection of color slides of Chinese petroglyphs (which he has taken on personal visits to the sites), has published extensively on the subject (mainly in the journal Ming Bao out of Hong Kong), and would like to correspond with scholars (preferably in Chinese) outside China. He would be happy to take Western colleagues along with him on his surveys and would be willing to guide student research in the topic. Trained in Chinese literature, Prof. Song's approach is to relate the petroglyphs to early Chinese myth. His curriculum vitae and short research statement are available in English through EAANetwork (please contact the editor).
     
  17. SILK ROAD VIDEO SERIES
    Six videos are now available in the Silk Road series co-produced by China Central TV and the 'outside' world. The individual titles of one-hour videos are: Glories of Ancient Chang-an, A Thousand Kilometers beyond the Yellow River, The Art Gallery in the Desert, The Dark Castle, In Search of the Kingdom of Lou-lan, and Across the Taklamakan Desert. A promotional video of 17-minutes length is available which describes each individual tape. Available by mail-order from Cheng & Tsui Co. 25-31 West St., Boston, MA 02111 USA. 617-426-6074 @ $29.95 ea or 6 volumes for the price of 5 at $149.95 as a "Pack Collector's Gift Box." (Write for their catalog.)
     
  18. KOREA FOUNDATION
    Following on to the notice [p NOTEWORTHIES 6-1] that the ICSK was to become the Korea Foundation, its programmes have now been announced.
    Activities: To organize, sponsor or participate in diverse international cultural exchange programs; To invite foreigners to Korea and to dispatch Koreans abroad for international conferences, seminars and research activities; To support Korean studies overseas and to distribute Korean studies reference materials; To conduct other programs and activities designed to help broaden understanding of Korea in the international community; To promote cooperation with major foreign cultural and academic organizations.
    Personal Exchange: Short-term; Mid- and long-term exchange; Assistant to foreign visitors: Dispatch of Korean academics, professionals and artists for overseas research activities and enabling of participation in international conferences and seminars abroad.
    Korean Studies Programs Abroad: Assistance for overseas Korean studies institutes and scholars, Korean language institutes, Korean sections in foreign museums and libraries, and Korean studies workshops for foreign teachers, textbook writers and editors; The Korea Foundation Fellowship Grant.
    Cultural & Artistic Exchange Activities: Organization and sponsorship/support of Korean performing arts and exhibitions overseas; Assistance for Korea-related cultural and artistic activities abroad.
    Publication and Distribution: Publication of Koreana, a quarterly on Korean culture; Publication of a quarterly on current Korean issues in English and Japanese; Publication in Korean of a catalog on Korean cultural assets housed in museums abroad; Production and distribution of AV materials on Korea; Publication of research papers on Korea by foreign scholars; Assistance in the translation and publication of books on Korea.
    Planning & Development: Advisory committees; Information center on international exchange activities; Korean studies reference center; International guest house.
    For further information, contact Korea Foundation, C.P.O. Box 2147, 526 Namdaemunno 5-ga, Chung-gu, Seoul 100-095 Korea. 02-753-3462, FAX 02-757-2049.
     
  19. EXCAVATION OF RARE KOREAN NEOLITHIC HUMAN BONES
    The skeletal remains of 13 people dating to ca. 4000 BC have been recovered from burials in a shellmound on Yondai Island, Tongyong, which were revealed in a typhoon in 1988. Excavated by the Chinju National Museum, "the bones are believed to be all from adults ranging from 150cm and 135cm in height." They were accompanied by Chulmun vessels, stone axes, fishhooks, 3 shell bracelets, and an ankle bracelet made of animal teeth. The latter two items are "the first ornaments from the [Korean] Neolithic Age ever discovered." The ceramics are "similar to those excavated in the Kyushu area, suggesting a strong possibility of exchanges between the two regions across the Korean Strait." (from Korea Newsreview 29 Feb 92: 32)
     
  20. THE FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA VIDEODISC
    The outgrowth of the six-year "Project Emperor-I" research and development undertaking by a team of Simmons College researchers, "The First Emperor of China" offers a unique view of the treasures of Qin Shi Huang Di. It includes original film footage of the first days of the excavation, archival materials, a tour of the Qin Museum of Warriors and Horses, aerial motion views of the Great Wall, a still frame library of 5,000 slides, and a bilingual Chinese-English commentary by the head of the excavation team and other scholars. The single videodisc may be used with its accompanying printed index, or in tandem with interactive software (soon to be available for both the Mac and the IBM-PC), which provides much more detailed information on Qin Shi Huang Di, the tomb complex and Chinese history and culture. An original four-disk set is also available.

    Videodisc available by mail-order from Cheng & Tsui Co. 25-31 West St., Boston, MA 02111 USA. 617-426-6074 @ $99.95. (Text from their catalog.)
     
  21. ELECTRONIC BOOKS: THE KOJIEN
    A recent Newsweek article on electronic books reviewed the Japanese advances in producing CD ROM books, a move deplored by some novel aficionados. Not so deplorable is the appearance of the Kojien dictionary, the basic historical dictionary for Japanese studies with 200,000 entry words and 2,000 graphics in its 3rd edition in hardback. Now this is available on CD ROM and can be installed as an application or desk accessory. Searches may be done 1) by kana and kanji or by kana only, 2) by more than one key word with and/or logic, 3) by beginning or ending letters, or 4) by wold card. Supports full colour but documentation in Japanese only. Requirements: Kanjitalk 6.0 or higher, 2 MB RAM, Macintosh CD drive.
    Ayumi Software, 1 diskette $499.00. Available by mail-order from Cheng & Tsui Co. 25-31 West St., Boston, MA 02111 USA. 617-426-6074. (Write for their catalog.)
     
  22. THE AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP (AARG)
    AARG provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information for all those actively involved in aerial photography, photo interpretation, field archaeology and landscape history. Founded in 1980, it has an annual meeting of international scope and occasional day-schools for the discussion of specialised topics. Members receive a biannual newsletter AARGnews. Contact Ms. V. Fenner, c/o RCHME, Shelley House, Acomb Rd. York YO2 4HB, UK.
     
  23. SOCIETY FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES (SAS)
    SAS, founded in 1978, seeks to bring together those concerned with natural science applications in archaeology. The society has recently negotiated with the Journal of Archaeological Science (JAS) for special discounted rates for SAS members. SAS membership at $55/year now includes subscriptions to JAS and the SAS Bulletin. The latter reports current developments in archaeological science from around the world, along with the comprehensive listings of upcoming symposia and other professional meetings. SAS also sponsors the publication Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science (AAMS), published by Plenum Publishing Corp. The first volume in the AAMS series is Phytolith Systematics, edited by G. Rapp, Jr. & S.C. Mulholland, 1992.

    Contact: R.E. Taylor, SAS Gen. Secy., Radiocarbon Lab, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521. 714-787-5521/5309; BITNET: RETAYLOR@UCRVMS
     
  24. FIRST OFFICIAL 'STATE PREHISTORIC ARTIFACT'
    As most of you may know, each state in the United States of America has its own designated tree, flower, logo/mascot, seal and flag to identify itself. Being from Colorado, your editor can vouch that the Colorado state tree is the Blue Spruce and the state flower is the Columbine (particularly, the purplish blue one). It appears that California is now the first state to adopt a prehistoric artifact as an offical state emblem: it is a bifacial chipped stone image of a bear, specifically the grizzly bear, Ursus arctos horribilis. The original is a 6-cm long 'eccentric crescentic' discovered in a northern San Diego County site dating to 7,000 years ago. The bill passed by state legislators to approve this designation was the State Prehistoric Artifact Bill (SB 404). The image, officially called the Chipped Stone Bear "was promoted as a direct symnbolic means to honor the contributions of Native American peoples past and present to California's heritage...Publicity surrounding the Chipped Stone Bear helped educate Californians to the great antiquity of Native American presence in California, and thereby fostered interest and study in past life-ways and in archaeology." (from Koerper, H.C. & Ericson, J.E. 1992. The first offical state prehistoric artifact in the United States. SAA Bulletin 10.1: 5).
     
  25. SCHOLARSHIP IN NUMISMATICS & COIN EXHIBITION
    Prof. Ikuo HIRAYAMA, Director of the Tokyo University of Fine Arts, has gained the cooperation of the British Museum in setting up a Scholarship in Numismatics, which will be worth ca. £100,000 [yes, that's one hundred thousand pounds] over five years. Also in April-May 1993, the British Museum will hold an exhibition of Hirayama's collection of ancient coins.
    (from Japan 533: 4, 1992; publication of the Embassy of Japan, London).

    [Prof. Hirayama is the same man who offers $1000 for articles chosen to be printed in his new journal, The Silk Road, and $10,000 for the best article submitted. p NOTEWORTHIES 5-6]

     
  26. BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (BAB)
    In April 1991 a new organization, the BAB, was established by a consortium consisting mainly of the Council for British Archaeology (CBA), English Heritage, the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, and the Society of Antiquaries of London. It is lodged in the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and will collate and publish "Comprehensive information on the huge range of publications relating to the archaeology of Great Britain and Ireland [and] more general literature on archaeology, heritage management, public and political aspects of archaeology, and the sciences as applied to archaeology....The data collected for the CBA's previous bibliographic publications [Archaeological Bibliography of Great Britain and Ireland (1940-80) and British Archaeological Abstracts (1968-91)] will be entered into the database, providing a record of material published since 1940." Hardcopy editions of BAB will be printed twice a year (in Apr & Oct, beginning in 1992), and disk copies can also be had. BAB also offers other services including a /FAX service for information on archaeological publications, possibly a document supply service, a computer search facility for specific inquiries, and direct online access. Contact: BAB Subscriptions, c/o Council for British Archaeology, 112 Kennington Road, London SE11 6RE, UK.
     
  27. NEW SERIES FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS
    With the temporary suspension of BAR (British Archaeological Publications) in 1990, several new competing series were started up to provide venues for quick and inexpensive archaeological publishing. Some of these are monograph series, others take individual articles:

    • BAR, now published by Tempus Reparatum, Oxford.
    • International Monographs in Archaeology, published by Robert Whallon, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA.
    • Monographs in World Prehistory, published by James Knight's 'Prehistory Press' of Madison, Wisconsin. Carol Bracewell, Managing Editor.
    • Studies in Modern Archaeology, published by Erwin Cziesla's Holos Verlag in Bonn.
    • Sheffield Archaeological Monographs; Sheffield Excavation Reports, two new series being published by John Collis from the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10, UK.
    • Worldwide Archaeology Series, Series Editor: Ross Samson, published by Avebury, an imprint of Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 3HR, UK. 0252-331551; FAX 0252-344405.
    • Journal of Archaeological Research, Co-edited by G.M. Feinman & T. D. Price, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Published by Plenum Press.
    • Oxbow Monographs, published by David Brown, Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford OX1 1HN, UK.
     
  28. 28. BROOKLYN MUSEUM'S AINU RESEARCH PROJECT
    The Brooklyn Museum has mounted a research project entitled "Ethnological Studies of Ainu Materials in North American Museums." Participating scholars from Japan are Dr. Yoshinobu KOTANI, Prof. of Anthropology, Nagoya University; Mr. Toshikazu SASAKI, Curator, Ainu Collection, Tokyo National Museum; Mr. Hideo KIRIKAE, Prof. of Linguistics, Tottori University; and Mr. Koji DERIHA, Curator of Ethnology, Historical Museum of Hokkaido. The project began with documenting the Ainu materials in the Brooklyn Museum which had been assembled by Culin, Starr and Batchelor. Dr. Kotani has produced a "List of Ainu Ethnographic Specimens in North American Museums" (1 Feb 1990), and in March 1992, a meeting was held at the Brooklyn Museum to report on the survey progress. For further information, contact: Ms. Amy G. Poster, Curator of Asian Art, The Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn NY 11238 USA. 718-638-5000, FAX 718-638-3732.
     
  29. KAYA EXHIBIT IN JAPAN
    The exhibit of Kaya materials mounted by the National Museum of Korea and the Asahi Newspaper company at the Tokyo National Museum this past summer (29 June-8 July) drew over 73,000 viewers. From 24 August-20 Sept, the exhibit was shown at the Kyoto National Museum, and it will continue at the Fukuoka Prefectural Museum from October 2nd. 437 objects excavated from the Kaya region, including the gold crown from Koryong (National Tresure #138), and 38 objects reflecting interaction with the Japanese Islands were on display. On July 27th, Akihito, Emperor of Japan, visited the exhibit in Tokyo and spent 1.5 hours looking at the display.

    Meanwhile, a Bronze Age exhibit was mounted at the National Museum in Seoul, 9 Sept - 4 Oct, accompanied by a fully illustrated colour catalog [p PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED] (from The Museum News 253:1, Sept 92)
     
  30. INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN STUDIES LECTURE SERIES
    In May 1992, the following lectures were given pertaining to EAA: "Buddhist art along the ancient Silk Road", "Xi'an: ancient capital of China", "Real and fake in Chinese bronzes." This year's offerings include: "Travel in China", "Chinese Gardens", "The dragon motif on Chinese ceramics", "'American devils' among the Mongols", "The Sung dynasty: arts & culture", "Chinese glass through the ages", "Japanese ceramics: Chinese & Korean influence", "News from the steppes" life & art in inner Mongolia", "The Yuan Dynasty: art and culture." Contact: Institute for Asian Studies, Inc., P.O. Box 1603, F.D.R. Station, New York, NY 10022 USA 212-535-7496, FAX 212-744-7570 for further information.
     
  31. ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO GALLERY OPENING & LECTURE SERIES
    Over the summer, the Art Institute sponsored a series of evening lectures presented in conjunction with the opening of the newly renovated Galleries of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Art. Select titles were:
    "Ceremonial vessels and ancestoral worship in China"
    "Images of Buddhist paradise found in caves and mountain temples in China"
    The galleries were opened on 30 May 92, in the presence Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Takamado of Japan, after a $5 million renovation project spanning three years. Included in the Chinese exhibits are the Buckingham bronzes and the Sonnenschein jades. For information on this year's program, contact the Art Institute of Chichago, Michigan Avenue & Adams Street, Chicago IL 60603. 312-443-3680. (based on Newsletter, EAAA 40: 27, May 92)
     
  32. LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART LECTURES
    15 March 92 "Bronze bells of China", by Lothar von Falkenhausen (UC Riverside)
    2 May 92 "After life and the superstituious self: investigating Chinese funerary objects", by Betty Lee (Photographer).
    Contact the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90036 USA for current program.
     
  33. HENDERSON COLLECTION OF KOREAN CERAMICS
    Maria and the late Gregory Henderson have donated their collection of nearly 150 pieces of Korean ceramics to the Harvard Art Museums. It is one of the finest private collections of Korean ceramics in the West and includes examples from all periods and major types of wares. The first exhibition of the collection's contents is scheduled for 12 Dec 92 - 28 Mar 93 under the title "First Under Heaven: The Henderson Collection of Korean Ceramics", organized by Robert Mowry. It is reported also that Mrs. Henderson plans to establish the Gregory and Maria Henderson Endowment for the Study of the Visual Arts of Korea and Its Neighbors. (Newsletter, EAAA 40: 27, May 92; 41: 18, Sept 92)
     
  34. FREER GALLERY OF ART
    The Freer has received $1.5 million from the B.Y. Lam Foundation of Hong Kong to acquire Chinese works of art. The gift is the largest from a single donor that the gallery has received since it opened in 1923. The gallery's growing collection of Chinese art comprises some 5,100 objects spanning the 4th m. BC through the early 20th century. The Freer has been closed to the public since September 1988 and will reopen 9 May 1993. Chinese art purchased as a result of the Lam gift will be displayed in the gallery's reopening exhibition. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. (based on Newsletter, EAAA 40: 27, May 92)
     
  35. YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
    A new installation of Chinese paintings, ceramics, bronzes, sculptures and scholar's objects from the permanent collection is being shown between
    1 Sept - 6 Dec 92 and the exhibit "Chinese Art from the Permanent Collection." Chapel Street at York, New Haven, CT 06520 USA.
     
  36. ARTHUR M. SACKLER GALLERY JAPAN EXHIBIT
    The exhibit "Ancient Japan," 9 Aug - 1 Nov 92 at the Smithsonian Sackler Gallery in Washington DC, examines the cultures of prehistoric Japan from the Palaeolithic to the early historic. Most of the 258 objects-recovered from 63 sites and made of stone, clay, wood, bone, lacquer and bronze-have been discovered since 1970, and many have never been shown outside Japan. Organized in cooperation with Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs, the exhibit includes 3 National Treasures and 85 Important Cultural Properties. On 2-3 Oct 92, a symposium on Japanese archaeology, supported by the Japan Foundation, was offered in conjunction with the exhibit [p CONFERENCE CALENDAR], and a public lecture entitled "Archaeology fever: Japanese archaeology today" was given by Richard Pearson on 4 Oct 92.
     
  37. TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART
    The Gallery of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Art was reopened on 4 June 92. Located in Toledo Ohio 43697 USA.
     
  38. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ART MUSEUM
    For the first time in the history of the University Art Museum, works from the museum's noted Asian art collection will be on continuous display in two galleries dedicated to Asian art. The inaugural installation, opening in November 1992, will include sculptures, paintings, prints, and ceramics from China, Southeast Asia, and Japan. A highlight of the exhibition will be a selection of early Chinese ceramics on extended loan to the museum from a notable Hong Kong collection. The collection includes painted Neolithic jars, Han dynasty pottery figures, three-color glazed T'ang dynasty ware, and elegant black and brown Sung dynasty ceramics. The University Art Museum, 2625 Durant Avenue, Berkeley 94720 USA. (from Newsletter, EAAA 41: 11, Sept 92)
     
  39. HUNAN ARCHAEOLOGY EXHIBITION
    "Ancient China-voyage of the soul: archaeological treasures from Hunan Province dating from the 13th century BC to the 2nd century AD." An exhibition of approximately 90 pieces lent by the Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha, was mounted at the Centre Culturel, Abbaye de Daulas, 21 Rue de l'Eglise, Daoulas, France between 1 July - 15 Sept 92. The exhibits focussed on three main themes: Bronze Age in Hunan, Chu civilization, and the Mawangdui Tomb no. 1. An exhibition catalog is available in French.
     
  40. NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
    NOMA is one of three institutions in the United States to receive an award from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. The award will assist in the construction of a gallery for its outstanding collection of Japanese art. The Japan Foundation for Global Partnership was established in 1991 to help achieve closer relations between Japan and the United States and to contribute to a better world through the cooperative efforts of both countries. The other two institutions to receive the CGP award this year include the Japanese Cultural Center of Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Morikami, Delray Beach, Florida. (from Newsletter, EAAA 41: 24, Sept 92)
     
  41. CSCPRC
    The Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (CSCPRC) will be changing its name to the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China (CSCC) effective 1 January 93. The Chinese name of the Committee, Mei-Zhong xueshu jiaoliu weiyuanhui, will remain unchanged.
    The CSCPRC is sponsored jointly by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). It facilitates Sino-American academic exchanges in the sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities. The committee works collegially with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the State Education Commission, the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), and the State Science and Technology Commission (SSTC). Cooperation with these counterparts in China is enhanced by the NAS/CSCPRC China Office, established in Beijing in 1985.
    CSCPRC programs are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Li Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanitites (NEH), the National Science Founcation (NSF), the Rockefeller Foundation, the Starr Foundation, the US Department of Education, the United States Information Agency (USIA), and select corporations. These programs include Chinese Fellowships for Scholarly Development (for overseas studies of Chinese academics), a Graduate Program (for dissertation research in China by graduates at American universities), and a Research Program (for faculty members at American universities). It also sponsors conferences, such as the recent "Grassland Ecosystem of the Mongolian Steppe (GEMS)", held at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, 26-29 March 92 and subsidizes book publications such as the volume from the GEMS project, Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China (National Academy Press, 1992). [p NOTEWORTHIES 4-7 for a description of the CSCPRC Archaeology Initiative.]
    The newsletter, China Exchange News, is a quarterly publication of the staff of the CSCPRC. Activities of the CSCPRC Committee on Chinese Archaeology are described in China Exchange News Spring 1991, Summer 1991, and the special issue of Summer 1992. In addition to three articles on archaeology [p RUNNING BIBLIOGRAPHY], the latter contains news on:

    a. K.C. Chang's Shang civilization excavation at Shangqiu; b. Aikens and Watson's archaeological collaboration in Mianchi County; c. Bettinger et al.'s Late Pleistocene/early Holocene hunter-gather subsistence in Inner Mongolia and Ningxia; d. Diane Gifford-Gonzalez's archaeological methods workshops at Zhoukoudian; e. Prudence Rice's pottery methods and analysis workshop in Shandong; f. Lengyel's Sino-American Field School of Archaeology at Xi'an Jiaotong University.

    Grants in the 1992-93 National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China have been awarded to:
    • Sarah Fraser, Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley to study "The Artist's Practice in Tang Dynasty China."
    • Stanley Abe, Department of Humanities, San Francisco State University, to do research on "Ordinary Images: popular Chinese culture of the 5th and early 6th centuries" at the Cultural Relics Bureau.
    • Dru Gladney, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California, to conduct research at Xinjiang University on "Socioeconomy and Kazakh Nomadic Identity: the reinvention of nomadic culture among the Kazakh nationality in the Altai mountain grasslands of Xinjiang."
     
  42. NEW EAST ASIAN ART NEWSLETTER
    The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst is published by the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Takustraße 40, W-1000 Berlin 33 Germany, 030-8301382, FAX 030-831-5972. The first issue appeared in March 1992 and it will be published twice yearly in March and October, in German. Subscription fee is 10 DM which can be remitted to the Deutsche Bank Berlin (BLZ 100 700 00) Konto Nr. 729 0909 (Mitgliedsbeiträge), Konto Nr. 729 0919 (Spenden).
     
  43. SOUTHEAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENTS
    (from ASEASUK News, N.S. 11, Spring 1992)

    Email: Two electronic mailing lists or discussion groups have recently been set up to allow scholars and others interested in Southeast Asia to post announcements, discuss issues and contact others of like research interests. One electronic list, SEANET-L@NUSVM (Southeast Asia Network List) has been set up at the National University of Singapore by Dr. Paul Kratoska. This is a BITNET facility. Those interested should contact Dr. P. Kratoska, Dept. of History, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511. The second network, SEASIA-L, is managed by Michigan State University; it too is a BITNET facility.

    New Society: At a meeting held in Leiden on 18 May 1992 it was decided to establish a European Association for Southeast Asian Studies. The meeting was attended by representatives from Germany, France, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Central and Southern Europe, and Eastern Europe. Initially Prof. Thommy Svensson is to Chair the Association, with Prof. Denys Lombard as Vice-Chairman and Dr. Peter Boomgaard as Secretary. The Secretariat for the first years of the Association will be located at the KITLV in Leiden. The Association will produce a European Newsletter and organise Europe-wide conferences.
     
  44. FOREIGN FIELDWORK IN CHINA
    On 22 February 1991, new "Regulations for Foreign Participation in Archaeological Work in China" were issued by the NCP. These have now been translated into English by Michael Lai [Lai 1992, see RUNNING BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Three fieldwork projects have been approved under these regulations:

    a. the Berkeley-Indiana early Palaeolithic excavations at Nihewan [see BAE Kidong report, above, and Clark 1992; Schick et al. 1991 in RUNNING BIBLIOGRAPHY].
    b. a Japanese project focussing on the development of agriculture in Dongbei
    c. a French proposal to investigate Han through Tang historic sites in the Hexi Corridor and Xinjiang. [Olsen 1992: 3,see RUNNING BIBLIOGRAPHY]
     
  45. CALL FOR PALACE MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS
    The National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, is encouraging Chinese art enthusiasts to do long-term volunteering at the Museum. Excellent English, facility in Chinese, a strong background in art history and Asian studies are required. Send resume and letter of application to Ms. Chou Kung-shin, Head of the Exhibition Division, National Palace Museum, Wai-shuang-shi, Shih-lin, Taipei, Taiwan ROC.
     
  46. PDF EXHIBIT
    "Elegant form and harmonious decoration: four dynasties of Jingdezhen porcelain" was held 10 June - 10 Sept 92 at the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 53 Gordon Square, London 071-387-3909. A 3-day conference on "The Porcelains of Jingdezhen" was held 15-17 June 92 in conjunction with the exhivition. The funds raised from the conference fee will be put towards the refurbishment of the PDF galleries.
    (from The Great Britain-China Centre announcements)
     
  47. GREAT BRITAIN-CHINA CENTRE LECTURES
    "The lost country: Mongolia revealed" by Jasper Becker, 27 May 92
    "Oriental gardens" by Dr. Frances Wood, 21 July 92
    (from The Great Britain-China Centre announcements)
     

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CONFERENCE CALENDAR

Jul 28-Aug 1 '92: First Pacific Basin International Conference on Korean Studies, Honolulu.
Contact: Byong Won LEE, Univ. of Hawaii, 1881 Wast West Road, Honolulu HI 96822; 808-956-7041/7618; FAX 808-956-2213 for happenings.

Aug 30 - 4 Sept '92: Rock Art Conference, organized by the Australian Rock Art Research Association

Sept 28-30'92: BACS, British Association for Chinese Studies conference, SOAS, London.

Sept 29-4 Oct '92: European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, 4th International Conference, Rome Italy. The 4th biennial conference of EurASEAA will be held under the auspices of the Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente and the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale. Contact: Roberto Ciarla, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Via Merulana 248, 00185 Roma, Italy.

Oct 5-9 '92: 1st International Conference on Asian Civilization, Tongling City, Anhui Province, PRC. Organized by Anhui University, University of Science and Technology of China, the Institute of Geography (CAS), the Institute of Natural Sciences (CAS), Institute of Asian-Pacific Region Studies, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Institute of International Chinese Characters, Anhui Provincial Institute of Archaeological Studies, the Historical Museum of China, and Anhui Historical Museum. The conference is accompanied by a "Bronze Cultural Festival" and excursions to Mt. Huangshan and Mt. Jiuhua. Contact: Prof. Sheng-Zhang HUANG, Chief Editor of Asian Civilization, Institute of Geography of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PRC.

Oct 16-18 '92: Fifth Annual Conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC), Ottawa. Contact: Jacob Kovalio, JSAC Conference Coordinator, History Dept. 400 Paterson Hall, Carleton Univ., Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6 Canada. 613-788-2600/2839/2828; FAS: 613-788-2819.

Nov 16-21 '92: Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals, University of Tokyo. D
iscussion will center on four main geographical areas: East Asia, Alaska and Siberia, the Americas, and the Pacific. Contact: Takeru AKAZAWA, The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.

Nov 4-8 '92: 1992 International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics (ISAC), Shanghai.
Contact Prof. Li Jiazhi, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Academia Sinica, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, PRChina

Dec 14-16 '92: EuroTAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group), University of Southampton, England.

Mar 12-14 '93: GIS and the Advancement of Archaeological Method and Theory, Southern Illinois University. Contact: Dr. H.D.G. Maschner, Center for Archaeological Investigations, So. Illinois Univ., Carbondale, Il 62901, USA. Email: GE2610@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU

Mar 25-28 '93: Association for Asian Studies Meetings (AAS), Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles.

Apr 3-8 '93: Japan Anthropology Work Shop (JAWS), Bamf, Alberta, Canada
Theme: "Culture in Japanese Nature: process or paradox" (as applied to Architecture, Art, Public Consumption, Philosophy, Food, Metaphor, Resource Use & Management; Science). Participation only by JAWS members; contact Dr Joy Hendry to join. Addresses: Dept of Social Studies, Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford OX3 0BP UK (Jan-July); Japanese Studies, Univ of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA UK (Aug-Dec).

Apr 13-15 '93: British Association for Japanese Studies Annual Meeting, University of Manchester. Conference theme: "Changing Social Values."

Apr 14 -18 '93: Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Meetings, Adams Mark Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, USA [Note change of dates!]

Apr 16-20 '93: 16th Annual Conference of the Association for Korean Studies (AKSE) in Europe, Humboldt University, Berlin. Contact: Mr. Roland Wein, Korea-Institut, Humboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, 0-1086 Berlin, Germany. 37-9-2093-2844; FAX 37-9-2093-2844.

Jun 14-16 '93: Lithic Analysis Conference, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Theme: "The articulation of archaeological theory and lithic analysis." Contact: George H. Odell, Dept of Anthropology, Univ of Tulsa, Tulsa OK 74104 USA 918-631-3082

Jul 6-9 '93: The Human Use of Caves International Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Regional summaries and thematic sessions covering Occupation Sites; Waste Disposal Sites; Ossuaries; Theatres of Ritual; Art Galleries; Storage Facilities. Contact: Christopher Smith, Dept of Archaeology, Univ of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU UK.

Jul 25-29 '93: UISPP Commission IV Meeting & Excursions 1993, Sydney/Canberra, Australia. The conference will include general sessons covering the broad themes of "Recording & management of archaeological data," "Quantitative & statistical methods in archaeology," and "Computing applications in Archaeology" plus special sessions on "Using images," "GIS & Computer mapping," "Shape analysis," "Computer applications" and practical workshops. Visits are arranged to ERIN, Australian Heritage Commission, Museum of Australia, Centre for Remote Sensins (U. NSW), Archaeological Computing Lab (U. Sydney), the Australian Museum and Powerhouse Museum. Contact: Trish Pemberton, USIPP93 Conference Sec'y, Prehistoric & Historical Archaeology C/- Anthropology A14, Univ. Sydney NSW 2006 Australia, or E-mail: [...]

Jul 28-5 Aug'93: 13th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City. Main theme: "The cultural and biological dimensions of global change." Contact: Congresos 2000, Viajes Kuoni de México, Aptdo. Postal 6/856, Hamburgo No. 66, Col. Juárez 06600 México, D.F. Mexico 5-533-6337/39, 5-533-6276/79 FAX 5-511-0971, 5-207-0957.

Aug 2-7 '93: 7th International Conference on the History of East Asian Science, Osaka.
Contact: Prof. Hashimoto, 39-2 Tange, Momoyama-cho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto 612 Japan.

Aug 22-28 '93: 34th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS), University of Hong Kong. Call for papers and panel proposals! Contact: Secretary-General, ICANAS Office, c/o Dept of History, Univ of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. FAX 852-517-0052 or 858-9755; E-mail: ICANAS@HKUCC.BITNET

Nov '93: "The Grassland Ecosystem of the Mongolian Steppe." The CSCPRC [see Noteworthies No. 43] will sponsor this research conference as part of its Grassland Ecosystem of the Mongolian Steppe (GEMS) Project, a collaborative research project among Chinese, Mongolian and Western scholars to examine the human and natural impacts on the grasslands. Call for papers! Contact: James Reardon-Anderson, Director, CSCPRC, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave NW, Washington DC 20418 USA. 202-334-2718; FAX 202-334-1774.

Dec '93: Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Washington DC.

Call for papers: Anyone interested in participating in a panel at the AIA on the archaeology of Southeast Asia is urged to send a proposal to Jean M. James, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, 280 International Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52240 USA by 1 November 1992. Abstracts are due by 1 March 93 and should be sent to Jean M. James for submission as a group.

 

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"International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) 13th Congress, 2-9 Aug 91, Beijing.
Among the hundreds of papers given at the congress, the following were selected from the 462-pg book of Abstracts (in English) as most relevant to East Asian archaeology.

Adamenko, O.M.: The palaeoecology and the settling of the primitive man in Eurasia and Africa
Arkhipov, S.A.: Primitive man habitat and migration to Siberia
Bae, Kidong: 'Chongoknian tradition', presence of few bifaces in Paleolithic stone industries in Korea
Bowdler, S.: The evolution of modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens, in East Asia: implications of archaeological evidence from Australia and Southeast Asia
Bull, P.A.: A scanning electron microscope study of the sediment sequence in Zhoukoudian Cave, China
Cai, Aizhi: Researches on sea-level changes in China in the Holocene
Cai, Baoquan: The micromammals from the hominoid localities of Yuanmou, Yunnan, China
Cao, Boxun, et al.: New development of the study of the Quaternary geology and environment in Zhoukoudian, Beijing
Chen, Chia-erh, et al.: Recent progress of the Peking University accelerator mass spectrometry facility
Clark, J. Desmond: Raw material and technological variability in the African Acheulean and its relevance to the Lower Palaeolithic in China
Derev'anko, A.P.: The early Paleolithic of the Altai
Endo, K. and Kosugi, M.: Abrupt changes in terrestrial environments about 1800 years ago
Fang, Yingsan: On the Paleolithic site groups in China
First Team of Hydrogeology, et al.: Quaternary marine transgressions in the area of the Changjiang Delta
Fuji, Norio.: Neolithic palaeoenvironment changes in the Japan Sea side coast area, central Japan
Gai, Pei: Microblade tradition around northern Pacific rim-in view of China
Geng, Kan: The basic law of the Lake's environment evolution during Holocene in North China
Gorbarenko, S.A.: Paleoceanology of the Okhotsk, Japan and East-China seas during last 50,000 years
Han, Huiyou: Vegetation evolution in the area of lower reaches of the Yangtze River since 30,000 BP
Hayashida, A. and Yokoyama, T.: Matuyama-Brunhes polarity transition recorded in a marine clay bed of the Osaka Group, southwest Japan
Huang, Pei-Hua: Study of comparison between the accumulative cycles of Peking-Man cave (Zhoukoudian Formation Q2) and the climatic cycles of deep sea cores
Huang, Peihua, et al.: Study of ESR dating on Peking-man site
Huang, Wanpo, et al.: The present status of Quaternary mammals studies in China
Huang, Weiwen: The pebble-tool industries and laterite of South China
Grosswald, Mikhail: Pleistocene Beringia-an outright land bridge or a glacial valve constraining Asian migration to North America?
Hughes, T. and Fastook, J.: Constraints on Asian migration into North America imposed by Pleistocene ice sheets in Northeast Siberia
Igarashi, Yaeko: Vegetation and climate during the maximum stage in the last glacial age of Hokkaido, northern Japan
Itihara, M. and Yoshikawa, S.: Major subdivisions of Quaternary deposits in and around Osaka, Kinki, Japan
Jarvis, D.I., et al.: Post-glacial vegetation and climate in Mianning County, Sichuan, China
Ji, Ruan: Evolution of Quaternary environment in Guizhou
Jia, Lanpo and Huang, Weiwen: The Palaeolithic of China
Jia, Lanpo and Lin, Yipu: Pottery sherd fround from Zalainuoer-one of the earliest pottery sherds ever known in China
Jia, Tiefei: Evolution of geomorphology and natural environment in Sjara Osso-gol River from Late Pleistocene in China
Jiang, Peng: Study on early Pleistocene artifacts from Wangfutun of Jilin, China
Keates, Susan G.: Aspects of hominid behaviour in the Nihewan Basin, northern China
Koike, H.; Chisholm, B. and Nakai, N.: Paleodiet estimated by 13C-15N and lipid analyses
Kong, Zhaochen and Du, Naiqiu: Dramatic changes of vegetation and climate in North China since the Late Pleistocene
Kosugi, M. and Endo, K.: Holocene sea-level changes and paleoenvironments from the former Tokyo Bay, central Japan
Kowalkowski, A.: Holocene weathering and pedogenic processes in north and central Mongolia
Kuzmin, Y.V.: Palaeoenvironment of the ancient cultures of the USSR Far East in Late Pleistocene and Holocene
Lee, D.Y. and Kim, J.Y.: Quaternary geology in the southeastern coast of the Korean peninsula
Li, Fenglin and Li, Jianfen: The distributional characteristics of shelly ridges and the environmental evolution along the coast of Bohai gulf
Li, Handina and Gao, Fengqi: Time regulation of peat development and peat formation period dince later stage of Epi-pleistocene in the East of China
Li, Huamei et al.: A new magnetostratigraphic study of the Nihewan formation in the Nihewan Basin, north China
Li, Rong: On the significance of the newly-found skeletons in Inner Mongolia of Mammuthus sungari and Coeledonta antiquitatis in the study of the Quaternary period in China
Li, Xu: Late Quaternary vegetation and climate in the Yellow Sea of China
Li, Yanxian: Levalloiso-Mousterian technique of Paleolithic industries in North China
Lin, D.K.: Exploration of ancient records and interviews with fishermen as a method of sea level research
Lin, Shenglong: On the distinctive features of the Chinese Paleolithic
Lin, Yipu: Note on an artifact manufactured by Yuanmou Man 1.7 million years ago
Lin, Yipu: Note of an upper molar tooth found from Lijian Man's site, Yunnan Province
Liu, Chun, et al.: The magnetostratigraphic study on the human fossil site in China
Liu, Jinglin and Xu, Xueming: Holocene environmental change in Changbai mountain, northeast China
Machida, Hiroshi: S ea level changes during the last 300 KA based on tephrochronology in Japan
Machida, Hiroshi: Late Quaternary tephrochronology and palaeo-oceanography in the sea of Japan and the northwest Pacific Ocean
Meng, Xianmin et al.: The research of Holocene epoch peat resource in Sanjiang Plain, northeast China
Miller-Antonio, et al.: Archaeological site formation in arid regions: a case study from the Quaternary river terraces of the southern Tarim Basin, Xinjiang
Nakaya, Hideo: Phylogenetic and biostratigraphic problems of the Pleistocene large mammals of the Japanese Islands and Northeast Asia
Oba, Tadamichi: Paleo-current system around Japan since the last glacial age
Ooi, Nobuo: Vegetation history during the early last glacial in Hokkaido, northern Japan
Orikasa, Akira: Bone and stone tools at Tategahana, Lake Nojiri, central north Japan
Pope, G.G.: Facial morphology and the origin of modern regional populations
Qi, Guoqin: The analysis of faunal remains from the Jiangzhai site
Qian, Fang and Jiang, Fuchu: Study of the age and living environment of Yuanmou man
Qiu, Hong-lie: A 4,000-year pollen record of vegetation and monsoon climate change from Fujian Province, southeast China
Qiu, Shanwen, et al.: The paleo-soil of sands on the west of northeast China and the changes of environment in Holocene epoch
Ranov, V.A.: The 'loessic Palaeolith' of Soviet Central Asia and China
Rapp, George and Jing, Zhichun: Geoarchaeological reconstruction of the Early Bronze Age landscape of the Shangqiu area, Henan, China
Ren, Jianzhang and Wu, Xihao: The environment change during the transition of the last glaciation to Holocene
Sakai, J. et al.: Late Pleistocene environments around the Late Nojiri, central Japan
Sawamura, Hiroshi, et al.: The fauna and its mode of occurence at the Nojiri-ko site, Late Pleistocene, Japan
Shackleton, N.J., et al.: Correlation of the Chinese loess sequence with the marine oxygen isotope record and astronomical calibration, 2.6 MA to present
Shao, Shixioung and Han, Shuhua: The Quaternary geology of great Eastern China Plain
Sharma, D.P. and Sharma, M.: Lower Palaeolithic industries of Southeast Asia and South Asia and southeast China, a comparative study
Sharma, D.P. and Sharma, M.: The Neolithic culture of east India and southeast China and southeast Asia-a comparative study
Shi, Tongguang: The Holocene environment of the southeast coast of Shandong Province
Shi, Xing-bang: An investigation of the natural environment of the Neolithic age of China
Sohn, Pokee and Han, Chang-gyun: Sourcing the obsidian tools in Korea-prehistoric tools and transport
Song, Changqing: The climatic change during Holocene in Daqing mountain, Inner Mongolia, China
Stringer, Chris: Asia and recent human evolution
Su, Guangqing: Sea level changes of northern south China Sea since Late Pleistocene
Suk, Bong-Chool: Quaternary seismic stratigraphy and depositional history of the southeastern continental shelf of Korea
Suzuki, M., et al.: Identification of tephras based on chemical and physical properties of volcanic glass fraction and their application in Japan
Takemura, Keiji: Volcanic glass stratigraphy in the Quaternary sediments in Osaka Bay
Tang, Keli: Micromorphology of paleosols and paleo-climate in the Quaternary, China
Tang, Zhuowei: Late Pleistocene Cervidae fossils from Jilin, China
Tong, Guobang, et al.: Evolution of Quaternary palynoflora in eastern China
Umitsu, Masatomo: Evolution of the Kiso River delta during the Holocene
Urushi-bara-Yoshino, Kazuko: Soils and environmental change in karst areas in south China and southewst Japan
Voskresenskaya, T.N. et al.: Paleogeography of Sakhalin in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene
Wang, Hong: Cyclicity of the Holocene oyster beds and floods in the coast of Bohai Bay, China
Wang, Jian, et al.: Quantitative analysis of sea level changed in south Yellow Sea (China) for the last 130 ka and the correlations of Late Quaternary marine transgressions in coastal areas of China
Wang, Shaohong, et al.: Sea level changes since Late Pleistocene along the coast of Fujian Province, southeast China
Wang, Shaozhong and Zhang, Ming: The excavation of the iron bulls witnessed the scouring of the Yellow River
Wang, Ying: Study on the Quaternary coastline in China
Wang, Yuzhao: Characteristics of the Quaternary palynoflora in China
Wang, Zhengyi et al.: Beginning from Neolithic pottery-use at Djalai-Nor 11,000 BP-the origin of primitive farming in Hulunbuir
Wei, Haibo: The distribution and burial of Palaeolithic sites and localities of Liaoning
Wei, Qi: Geologic sequence of the archaeological sites in the Nihewan Basin, north China
Whitmore, T.J. et al.: Climatic and human influences on lakes of Yunnan plateau, PRC, Late Pleistocene to present
Wilson, M.C.: Geoarchaeology in loess of Gansu Province, northwest China
Wu, Xinzhi: Early man in China-origin and dispersal of modern humans in east part of Asia
Xia, Zhengkai: The records of ancient climate in Nihewan Basin, north China
Xiong, Wenjun, et al.: The palynoflora and Holocene climate's fluctuation in the south of Bohai Sea
Su, Jiasheng: The Late Quaternary climatic evolution and characteristics of the east part of the China Sea area and its margin
Xu, Xin: A study on the development of vegetation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Quaternary
Xue, Xiangxu: The characters of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment of the Quaternary in China in the light of mammalian fossils
Yang, Huai-jen: Late Pleistocene and Holocene rapid climatic and sea level changes
Yang, Huai-jen: Paleomonsoon and the mid-Holocene deluges and sea level changes in China
Yang, Y.X. and Yang, Y.J.: Study on peatland-forming period and paleo-ecological environment of the Holocene in the northeast region of China
Yang, Zigeng: Evolution of the eastern shelf of China in Quaternary and its environmental consequences
Ye, Shizhong: The cultural relic association in the Holloway epoch accumulative horizon in Shandong and Hunan Provinces
Yokoyama, Takuo: New concept of stratigraphy of Pleistocene Osaka Group, Japan
You, Yuzhu and Dong, Xingren: Prehistoric culture of the southern coastal Fujian
Zhang, De'er: Historical records of climate change in China
Zhang, Senshui: Principal results of Paleolithic archaeology in China
Zhang, Weiguo: Distribution characteristics of the sites of ancient cultures from the Holocene in Daihai Lake Basin in Neimonggu, China
Zhao, Songling: Desertization environment of East China Sea shelf region in the last glacial age
Zheng, Guangying and Li, Xu: Sporopollen (1,80 ma) characteristics and its climate epoch sequence in the Yellow Sea, China
Zheng, Honghan: Late Pleistocene environment of north China
Zheng, Xiangmin and Yu, Lizhong: Aeolian loess deposit of Late Pleistocene in the coastal plain of east China
Zheng, Zhuo and Lei, Zuoqi: Evidence for the last 400,000 year vegetation change in the Leizhou peninsula, S. China
Zhou, Kunshu: Recent advances on environmental archaeology in China
Zhou, L.P. and Wintle, A.G.: Dating Chinese loess by thermoluminescence
Zhou, Mingzhen and Wang, Yuanqing: Pleistocene environmental changes, mammalian faunas and fossil man of China
Zhu, Yizhi and Zhou, Mingzhen: The Asian monsoon activities and the habituation environment of fossil man in north China
Zong, Guanfu: On age of the strata with hominoid fossils in Yuanmou Basin
 

"International Symposium on Prehistoric Culture in South China",
organized by SHANG Zhitan, curator of the Anthropological Museum, Zhongshan University, 23-27 Nov 91, Guangzhou.

Foreign contributions:
Solheim, W.G. II: The Nusantao and prehistoric contacts among the peoples of Southeast Asia, South China, Korea and Japan
Bellwood, Peter: The implication of the South China Neolithic for the language family
Pookajorn, S.: The Hoabinhian stone tools analysis in Thailand and Vietnam
Koto [?], Shinji: On the change in subsistence strategy for the people in south China from the terminal Pleistocene to early Holocene
Im, Hyo-jai: New research in the agricultural origins in Korea
Yi, Seonbok: For a new perspective in Paleolithic archaeology of Northeast Asia
Allard, Francis: Approaches to the study of southeast China during the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene

Local contributions:
Zhang, Zhen-hong: An outline of the research to Huangyandong site
Qiu, Li-cheng: A preliminary study on the culture of Huangyandong
Qiao, Xiao-qin: A new perspective on the early prehistoric remains in mountain areas of south China
Yuan, Jia-rong: The develolpment of Paleolithic culture in Hunan Province
Gu, Yung-quan: The preliminary study on the Neolithic Age's graves of Xinghua, Fengkai
He, Nai-han: The preliminary study on the relations of Lingnan Mesolithic, early Neolithic culture and Viet Han's Hoabinh culture, Bacson culture
Qi, Zhao-jin: Some problems on the cave site in Zengpiyan, Guilin and the Neolithic in south China
Yuan, Si-xun: The puzzle and fact: some problems on dating of samples from early Neolithic sites of south China
Li, Yuchun: The significance of discovering Huangyandong site
Peng, Shu-lin: The study on the double-shouldered stone tools in Guangxi
Zhao, Shande: An analysis of the cultural remains of Xijiang River valley in the Neolithic period
Long, Jia-you: The study on the evolution and its reasons for the economic lifestyle in prehistorical Xingjing River valley in Guangdong and Guangxi
Zeng, Qi: The exploitation of Xiqiaoshan site and the foreign orientation of its culture
Huang, Wan-bo: Recent developments in cave archaeology
Huang, Wei-wen: The stone industries from primary laterite in south China
Xie, Guang-mao: A preliminary study on the Bose [?] handaxe
Cao, Ze-tian: The early industry of southwest China and the significance of ancient development in Southeast Asia
Li, Yan-xian: Some problems of the classification of pebble tools
Zhang, Xing-yong: Dividing line between the Palaeolithic and Neolithic in Yunnan
Yang, Shi-ting: The features and dating from the excavations of the tombs at Liyangdun, Fengkai
Ao, Ka-fat: Researches in pre-Qin culture of the Xijiang region
Deng, Zeng-kui: Distribution, dating and explored age of geometric design pottery in Fengkai
Li, Xiuguo: On the owner of Eastern Zhou tombs found in Xijiang River valley
Wei, Jin-chen: A comparative study on the relationship of prehistoric cultures between Southeast China and the west Pacific areas
Zhou, Da-ming: The origin and distribution of bronze scraping [?] in the Bronze Age of Guangdong
Deng, Cong: A study on the pebble tools found in East Lantau Bay, Hong Kong
 

"Terms of Engagement: rephrasing Japanese Art History,"
a conference held on 15 Feb 92 was organised by Karen Brock of Washington University and included the paper:
McCallum, Donald: Shotoku and Shaka-forging national identity
 

"Archaeometry 92" 23-27 March 1992, Los Angeles
Organized by Pieter Meyers, Chairman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Goodman, Dean: Radar archaeometry and the use of synthetic radargrams to investigate burial grounds in Japan
Kamei, H. et al.: A new instrument: a three-component fluxgate gradiometer
Kobayashi, Akira: A trial production of 500MHz-IGHz FM-CW ground penetration radar system
 

"Society for American Archaeology, 57th Annual Meeting" 8-12 April 92, Pittsburgh
Crawford, Gary: Archaeological grasses and anthropogenesis in prehistoric Japan
Bleed, Peter: Risk and cost in Japanese microcore technology
Pearsall, Deborah M.: Identifying rice (Oryza sativa), Poaceae, through phytolith analysis
Zhao, Zhojun: A new procedure for extracting phytoliths from soil
Vandiver, Pamela: A regional perspective on the Mesolithic development of pottery production in East Asia
Kang, Bong: A reexamination of Korean megalith tombs and social organization
Keates, Susan: The evolution of hominid behavior in Pleistocene China
Murowchick, Robert: Written in metal: interpreting the ritual bronzes of southwestern China
 

"Religions in Traditional Korea,"
an AKSE-sponsored seminar organized by Dr. Henrik H. Sorensen, 25-28 June 92, University of Copenhagen
Best, Jonathan E.: Concerning the date of Buddhism's introduction to Paekche
 

"Yamato and its relations to surrounding populations" 23-25 Sept 92, Bonn University.
Organized by Maria (Warlies) Shinoto, with a grant from Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

Mende, Erling von: The significance of China for the relations between peoples and states in Manchuria and on the Korean peninsula
Obayashi, Taryo: Dominance and collapse of the Yamato suprasystem: dynamics in the legendary history of early Japan
Barnes, Gina L.: The archaeology of protohistoric Yamato
Hudson, Mark J.: Yamatai and Kai-interpreting the Yayoi-Kofun transition
Komoto, Masayuki: Kaya and ancient Japan
Fukasawa, Yuriko: Emishi and Ainu
Ikehata, Koichi: The central power and the incorporation of south Kyushu-archaeology of the Hayato
Pearson, Richard: Archaeology of Ryukyu Islands from the Yayoi to Kofun periods
 

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Prof. Hiroshi TSUDE, Osaka University, is spending a Sabbatical leave at the Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University, 1 July 92 - 31 March 93. He is conducting comparative research on chamber tombs in the British Isles and Japan, and he is investigating how archaeology is taught at this institution.
 

Prof. Masaaki OKITA, Tenri University, is spending a Sabbatical leave at Indiana University and will be studying how foreigners view Japanese archaeology.
 

Mr. Shozo Iwanaga, archaeologist from the Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute, is spending a leave of absence at the DAI-KAVA in Bonn, Germany, studying the European Bronze Age.
 

Mr. YUAN Xiaofeng, archaeology research associate at IVPP spent a semester at Indiana University comparing early stone age assemblages from China with those from other Old World localities in the US. Mr. Yuan studied theoretical and methodological approaches with his host, Nicholas Toth, and consulted with other scholars at Indiana University's Center for Research in the Anthropological Foundation of Technology. (from China Exchange News 20.2: 27).
 

Prof. CHEN Tiemei, Dept of Archaeology, Beijing University, will be hosted by Prof. George Rapp at the University of Wisconsin to do trace-element provenance studies of Chinese Neolithic pottery.
 

Assoc. Prof. LI Tianyuan, Department of Paleolithic Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of Hubei, will be hosted by Prof. F. Clark Howell at the University of California, Berkeley, to work on a comparative analysis of Middle Pleistocene human crania and associated Paleolithic artifacts from Yunxian, Hubei.
 

Assoc. Prof. PENG Yushang, Department of History Sichuan University, will be hosted by Prof. David N. Keightley at the University of California, Berkeley, to develop ways to date oracle bones.
 

Assoc. Prof. SHEN Guanjun, Department of Chemistry at Guizhou University, may be spending a research leave at the University of Southern California at the invitation of Prof. Teh-Lung KU to establish precise chronology for Peking Man at Zhoukoudian.
 

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ASIAN-LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Senshi Mongoroido Shudan no Kakusan to Tekiō Senraku [The diffusion of the prehistoric Mongoloid group and its adaptative strategies]. Collected papers presented at the Prehistoric Mongoloid conference held 13-15 Jan '92 at the Tokyo University Yamaue Center. From T. Akazawa, University of Tokyo Museum.

Kodaishi Fukugen 6: Kofun Jidai no Ō to Minshū [Ancient Reconstructions 6: Kings and Peasants in the Kofun Period]. Tokyo: Kodansha. From Izumi NIIRO, Okayama University.

Chugoku Kodai no Kagami [Bronze Mirrors of Ancient China]. Tenri Gallery Exhibition [catalogue] No. 90, Autumn 1991. From M. Okita, Tenri University.

Inori to Negai no Ningyo: Nihon no kyōdo gangu [The Dolls for Suplicating to Dieties: folk toys in Japan]. Tenri Gallery Exhibition [catalogue] No. 91, 1992. From M. Okita, Tenri University.

Indo no Mingu [Folk Tools in India]. Tenri University Sankokan Museum, 17th Planned Exhibition 1992. From M. Okita, Tenri University.

Mongoroido (Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals), Nos. 13 (1991), 14 (1992). University Museum, University of Tokyo. From T. Akazawa.

Yukinoyama Tumulus II. (2nd preliminary report), by The Research Team for Yukinoyama Excavation. Osaka Univ. Dept. of Archaeology, 1992. From K. Sasaki. (English summary)

Sakuraidani Yōsekigun 2-23 go Kamaato [Sakuraidani No. 2-23 Kiln: report of an excavation at the site of a stoneware kiln at Sakuraidani, Osaka, Japan.] Osaka Univ. Dept. of Archaeology, 1991.

Mongoroido Chikyu o Ugoku [Mongoloids Moving Across Earth]. Proceedings of the 6th University Science Public Symposium, 24 Jan 92, Tokyo. From T. Akazawa.

Han'guk oe Chongdonggi Munhwa [The Bronze Culture in Korea]. National Museum of Korea, 1992. From KIM Gwon Gu.

 

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