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EAANnouncements 26
Autumn 1998

Contents

SEAA actives SEAA activities Member News Field & Research Reports Andrei V. TABAREV: Fieldwork in the Russian Far East: Far-Eastern Archaeological Fieldschool Gideon SHELACH: Regional Archaeological Project in Chifeng, Northeast China KAJIWARA Hiroshi: The oldest site on Hokkaido: Fudozaka Dissertation Abstracts Paola DEMATTE: The Origins of Chinese Writing: Archaeological and textual analysis of the pre-dynastic evidence

Jobs & Grants Lectures Exhibitions & Museum News Noteworthies Conferences Conference Calendar Call for Conference Papers Papers read Running Bibliography Journal updates

SEAA actives:

SEAA actives:

President: Prof. Sarah Nelson, Dept. of Anthropology, Uni. of Denver, 2130 South Race, Denver, CO 80208, USA. FAX: 303-871-2437; E-mail: [...]
Secretary: Dr. Yangjin PAK, Dept of Archaeology, Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea (retiring from the Secretaryship in 1999)
Treasurer: Mr. Simon Kaner, 40 Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1JY, England; e-mail: [...]
Vice President: Dr. Gideon Shelach, Dept. of East Asian Studies, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel, e-mail: [...]
 

Japan Representative: Dr. Kojiro MIZOGUCHI, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, 4-2-1 Ropponmatsu, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810 Japan. Fax 92-731-8745, e-mail: [...]
Korea Representative: Dr. Insook LEE, #204-33 Kaenari Apt., Yeoksamdong, Kangnam-ku, Seoul 135-082 Korea. Tel/Fax 2-553-8027
China Representative: Dr. WANG Tao, Art & Archaeology Dep., SOAS, Univ of London, Thornhaugh St., London WC1H 0XG, England. Tel. 171-637-6192, Fax 171-436-3844
Australian Representative: Dr. Mark Hudson, Dept of Archaeology, Faculty of Letters, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima, Okayama 700 Japan. Fax 86-255-9903
North American Representative: Dr. James Grayson, Centre for Korean Studies, Sheffield University, Sheffield S10 2UJ, England. Tel. 114-282-4390, Fax 114-272-9479
European Representative: Prof. Gina L. Barnes, East Asian Studies, Univ of Durham, Durham DH1 3TH, England. Fax 191-374-3242; email: [...]

Journal Editor: Prof. Lothar von Falkenhausen, Art History Dept, Dixon Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1417, USA. Fax 310-359-1689, e-mail: [...]
EAANnouncements Editor: Prof. Gina L. Barnes (see above)
EAANnouncements Production Editor: Ilona Bausch, DEAS, Univ of Durham, Durham, DH1 3TH, UK.
China Round-up Editor: Dr. Francis Allard, Dept of Anthropology, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA. Fax 412-648-7535, e-mail: [...]
Japan Round-up Editor: Dr. Mark Hudson (see above)
Book Reviews Editor: Mr. Simon Kaner (see above)

AAS Liaison (Association for Asian Studies) Prof. Kathy Linduff, Department of Fine Arts, 128 Frick Fine Arts Bldg., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. Fax 412-648-2792, e-mail: l[...]
SAA Liaison (Society for American Archaeology) Dr. Francis Allard (see above)
IPPA Liaison (Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association) Mr. Magnus Fiskesjö, [Dept. of Antrhropology & Dept of EA Languages and Civilizations, Univ. of Chicago, but visiting Stanford Univ. this academic year]. current address: 3044 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, California 94306, USA; home tel. & fax: 650-813-9838 (valid only until July 1999); e-mail: [...]
TAG Liaison (Theoretical Archaeology Group) Dr. Anthony Sinclair, Archaeological Sciences, William Hartley Bldg (North), Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK. Fax 151-794-5057; email: [...]

 

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SEAA activities:

From the editor......

Dear EAANnouncements readers,
After nine years of editing this thrice-yearly newsletter, the time has come to move on to a new format and hopefully better service. As you will know, the Society for East Asian Archaeology has established a website called SEAAsite (at www.durham.ac.uk/SEAA) and a new scholarly journal, the Journal of East Asian Archaeology. These formats cater to wide-ranging link information and in-depth scholarly analyses, respectively. The SEAA Council has thus approved the discontinuation of the hard-copy newsletter format in favour of these new media. As EAANnouncements editor, I am sorry to see the newsletter go. But now the internet is globally available and more flexible in its timing and content-to the extent that makes a hard-copy newsletter expensive and inefficient to produce and distribute. Thus, we announce that this will be the last issue of EAANnouncements to hit the press. I wish to personally thank everyone who has contributed over the years to the newsletter's content and success.
The ending of the newsletter creates several logistical problems that have to be solved:
1) Pre-paid subscription fees: Any SEAA members who have pre-paid their EAANnouncements subscription fee may choose to either obtain a refund or put the paid amount towards SEAA membership and JEAA subscription in future years. You will be contacted individually by the Treasurer to enquire which is your preference. If the Treasurer does not hear from you by June 1999, we will assume you are willing to support SEAA activities by having your pre-paid fees donated into the general operating funds.
2) Institutional subscribers: Subscribers who have also paid for next year's subscription will receive a refund if requested after contact by the Editor. Again, if the Editor does not hear from an institution by June 1999, we will assume you are willing to support SEAA activities by having your pre-paid fees donated into the general operating funds.
3) Exchange partners: Since we will no longer be able to offer a hard-copy newsletter in exchange for those produced by exchange partners, those partners will have to decide whether they wish to continue sending their newsletter with the expectation that news will be extracted and their organisation be advertised on SEAAsite in the new format of news distribution.
4) Members news: The SEAA Treasurer has offered to circulate a members' bulletin once a year with current members news, members directory, and the financial statement of the organisation. This will only be circulated to SEAA dues-paying members.
5) Other news: All other kinds of news currently carried by EAANnouncements may be transferred to SEAAsite depending on staffing and financial viability. If individuals have such news as field reports, bibliographic additions or new publications, then please do continue sending them to:
SEAAsite Editor, CREAA, Elvet Hill House, Durham DH1 3TH, UK Fax 191-374-3242 email: seaa@durham.ac.uk
It is with reluctance that I send out EAANnouncements 26 as the final copy of the series, but I hope all its readers are pleased with its replacements. Please find enclosed the new dues and subscription form with which to continue your affiliation with this organisation and support its enhanced efforts to bring together the East Asian archaeology scholarly community.

Gina Barnes,
EAANnouncements Editor

 

SEAA Membership & JEAA Subscriptions
For 1999, members may sign up for SEAA and subscribe to JEAA at the same time. The schedule of fees will be:
SEAA membership JEAA subscription
Students/Retired $55
Regular members $65
SEAA membership only
Students/Retired $6.00
Regular members $16.00
Please use the SEAA Dues Payment Form enclosed in this issue of EAANnouncenets. Additional forms can be obtained from the Treasurer, Mr. Simon Kaner, 40 Milton Road, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England.
All SEAA members will receive an annual bulletin containing Society report of finances, Society Membership Directory and Members News, to be edited by the Treasurer. They will also receive circulars about the next SEAA Conference 2000.

SEAA Elections-YOUR REPLY NEEDED
According to the nomination forms which were circulated in EAANnouncements 25 and were to be returned to the SEAA Secretary by October 1st, the following nominations were unopposed and therefore stand as elected for four years from 1999 through 2002:
President: Prof. Sarah Nelson
Vice President: Dr Gideon Shelach, who will serve as the Academic Organiser of the 2nd Worldwide SEAA Conference 2000
European Representative: Prof. Gina Barnes
The SEAA Council sends a hearty thank-you to the retiring members of office, particularly Secretary PAK Yang-jin, who served as Academic Organiser for the 1st Worldwide EAAN Conference in Honolulu, 1996, and who has run the elections process for the Society.
The post of North American Representative has two contenders, therefore SEAA members are asked to mark their selection on the enclosed Postal Ballot form and return it to the President by 1 February 1999.

2nd Worldwide SEAA Conference 2000
The Oriental Museum at the University of Durham, Durham, England will be hosting the next SEAA conference, to be held in late June-early July, 2000. Please put this date in your calendar. We hope to have a variety of panels on Chinese, Korean and Japanese archaeology on offer, with particular input by European archaeologists of these areas. SEAA members will be circulated soon for a Call for Papers by the Academic Organiser, Dr. Gideon Shelach (see SEAActives for address). Logistical arrangements are being handled by the Centre for Research in East Asian Archaeology (CREAA) at the University of Durham. Please contact CREAA@durham.ac.uk for details.

SEAAsite-log into the Society's website:
www.durham.ac.uk/SEAA

 

JEAA: Journal of East Asian Archaeology
JEAA will publish original scholarship, in English, on all aspects of East Asian archaeology. "East Asia" is here broadly defined as including China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, Mongolia, Siberia, and the adjacent regions of Central Asia. Since journals published in East Asian countries tend to be more narrowly-focused on a single country or area, it is hoped that the broad regional purview of the new journal will enable new comparative perspectives and insights.
The Journal of East Asian Archaeology is an international scholarly journal, primarily directed at academics and students. Besides addressing the general East Asian Studies community, it aims to help archaeologists and anthropologists working in fields other than East Asia to become better informed about the significant contributions of East Asian archaeology to the anthropological enterprise as a whole.
The new journal will publish hands-on archaeological reports; contributions to archaeological synthesis; specialized studies on archaeological finds from the East Asian area; treatments of the history of the archaeological discipline in East Asia; as well as articles on comparative and methodological issues that incorporate materials from East Asia to a significant extent. Work of an interdisciplinary focus is particularly encouraged. Reviews, review articles, bibliographic surveys, and other research aids, as well as translations, will also be published. The journal hopes to improve communication among scholars through interim reports on the progress of field projects and to stimulate lively discussion through columns, correspondence, forum sections and thematically-focused issues. stimulate lively discussion through columns, correspondence, forum sections and thematically-focused issues.
The Journal of East Asian Archaeology will be published by E.J. Brill in Leiden, The Netherlands, in cooperation with the Society for East Asian Archaeology. While it is hoped that eventually, the journal will appear on a quarterly basis, we presently envisage two volumes a year, totalling some 450 pages of text, plus photographic plates. An Inaugural Volume and Volume One (1999), jointly constitute the Festschrift for Professor K. C. Chang.
 

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MEMBER NEWS

The Membership Secretary writes that this version of Members News is compiled from the information that Members have sent in as part of their annual subscriptions for 1997 and 1998. Many Members have commented that they find the Members News a valuable aspect of the EAANouncements, and he welcomes any contributions-by e-mail, or on disc (Mac or Windows)-or as usual, on the subscription forms.
 

Dr. Susan Jane ALLEN writes that she spent three weeks in Japan in Fall 1997 doing preliminary survey for a Cultural Resources Management Plan for 12 US bases on Honshu. These include very interesting sites, one dating back 32,000 years.

Martin T. BALE has a BA (hons) from the University of Regina. After graduating he lived for a while in Korea and developed an interest in Korean pre- and protohistory. He has worked on Korean Middle Neolithic and Iron Age sites in southeastern Korea. He has been accepted for graduate studies at UBC in Canada. He is currently (March till September 1998) at Seoul National University on a Korea Foundation Fellowship (Language). Next, between September and December 1998 he will conduct archaeological investigations under the kind auspices of Dong-A University of Archaeology & Art History and Dong-A University Museum, Pusan, Korea.

Ilona BAUSCH has started a PhD in Japanese archaeology in 1998 at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Durham, focussing on Middle Jomon exchange networks and identity in central Japan.

Lester BILSKY writes that he is an historian who studies the Zhou-Qian Han period. He has written on the state religion of the period and is now working on its environmental history. He finds knowledge of archaeological work indispensable.

Emma C. BUNKER has continued interests in Eurasian steppe archaeology and iconography and the development of bamboo furniture (1998). In 1997 she was cataloguing the ancient bronzes from the East Eurasian steppes in the Arthur M. Sackler collections. Emma adds that the Sackler Steppe volume seems to have been published without taking into account a number of final revisions. Anyone buying the book can fax or write her or Kathy Linduff and they will gladly provide a list of errata.

Pochan CHEN was studying on the Archaeology Program at UCLA in 1997. He is interested in southeast China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

Louise Allison CORT with Leedom Lefferts and NARASAKI Shoichi (Aichi-ken Toji Shiryokan) is engaged in a study of contemporary earthenware and stoneware production in mainland South Asia. To date their surveys have taken them to over one hundred production sites in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia and they were planning to take an initial look at Southern Vietnam last February. They are interested to hear from others who may be working on related topics, including local industries that involve ceramic containers for production and/or distribution.

Paola DEMATTE is working on the project 'Comparative Archaeology and Cultures' at the Getty Research Institute, LA, California. She gained her PhD at UCLA in 1996 on the origins of Chinese writing in predynastic times (see abstract in this issue).

Erika EVASDOTTIR set out in June 1997 for 15 months fieldwork in China and Taiwan. Her thesis topic is Archaeologists; it will be a joint social anthropological-archaeological thesis.

Clare FAWCETT is now tenured at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.

Edward FIELD writes "after my BA dissertation of 1990 on Munro and the Mitsuzawa shellmound, my MPhil/PhD thesis concerns The Introduction of Archaeology and Anthropology into Meiji Japan, with a special focus on the activities of Morse and Munro. As I now have a grant I shall enrol fro the final year of my research degree this September (1997) with the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London. I am a mature student who has visited Japan on four occasions and worked on digs there."

Robert FREY moved from London back to the West Coast and continues to work on articles on jade and on a potential volume on lapis lazuli world-wide, including archaeological aspects and evidence of very early East-West trade.

Douglas S. FUQUA wrote (1997) that he had just completed an MA at the University of Hawaii and was beginning a PhD in East Asian History from January 1997.

Ralph GILES is a PhD student in historical archaeology, specialising in Victorian period immigration to the western USA.

James H. GRAYSON wrote in 1997 that he was taking six months study leave at the Institute for Korean Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul, to work on a book on Korean ancient mythology.

Jane GRENVILLE wrote that she has developed in interest in Japanese archaeology and heritage management issues since meeting MAEKAWA Kaname and SENDA Yoshihiro, of Toyama University and the National Museum of Japanese History respectively. Both were visiting fellows in the Department of Archaeology, University of York. Together they organised a day conference on heritage management in the Far East. The proceedings are published as Far Eastern Studies in Heritage Management, ed. J. Grenville, 1996, available from the above department at £5.00. Since then she has visited Japan and become interested in vernacular architecture. A joint publication with Dr. Martin Morris of Chiba University is in its formative stages.

Juna JANHUNEN is continuing his studies of modern and ancient ethnicity in the sphere of greater China.

Tianlong JIAO is a researcher in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, with major interests in Chinese Prehistoric and Bronze Age archaeology. "I mainly do archaeological fieldwork in Shandong Province and am a co-director of the on-going projects 'Environmental Archaeological Studies on Shellmounds in Shandong Peninsula' and 'Qianzhangda: a major Shang site in Shandong'." Until August 1997 he was a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

Simon KANER has just been appointed Senior Archaeologist (Development Control) within the County Archaeology Office, Cambridgeshire County Council, where his responsibilities include monitoring and promoting archaeological activities within the busiest (archaeologically speaking) county in the United Kingdom. This new role within British Archaeology is providing fresh perspectives on his research into Japanese prehistory. He will continue research into the Jomon period, and later in 1998 will be completing the publication arising from the 1995 conference From the Jomon to Star Carr, while early 1999 will see the publication of the final report of a joint Cambridge-Toyama Medieval archaeology project, the Swavesey Project. In between, as Treasurer and Membership Secretary, he tries to keep a grip on the membership details of the Society, and craves the indulgence of any Members who have not had an immediate response to any enquiries. PLEASE NOTE HIS CHANGE OF ADDRESS.

Susan G. KEATES was involved in a reassessment of the Chinese Palaeolithic and the Southeast Asian Palaeolithic in 1997.

Rose KERR gave the annual Barlow lecture at the University of Sussex on 5 March 1996 entitled "Whereby now the furthest East is disclosed and laid open to the present age: Chinese Porcelain and the West, A.D. 1600-1900", in the series "Cultural Encounters: Communicating Otherness". She also gave the Annual General Meeting Lecture to the Oriental Ceramic Society, 19 June 1996, on "The Status of Ceramics in Early China".

Jiyul KIM was an officer in the US army, with the rank of Major, in 1997. He has a long interest in archaeology and East Asia; he has a BA in Anthropology-Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in East Asian Studies from Harvard University. Moreover he has published on American historical archaeology and intends to pursue a PhD in the History of Anthropology with a focus on early East Asian archaeology.

Sally KIRCHBERGER was a third-year student of sinology and political science at Hamburg University in 1997, and plans to take her MA around the year 2000. She has a special interest in the Chinese Neolithic, especially the Hongshan and Liangzhu cultures.

Purple KUMAI was in Japan on the JET programme until August 1997 and then planned to return to the UBC in Vancouver, Canada, to continue her studies into Japanese archaeology. Her major areas of interest are the Palaeolithic and Jomon periods. She will apply for a Monbusho scholarship in 1998 and will study archaeology in Hokkaido and Tohoku.

Stephanie LAUPER ZHANG is finishing her M.A. thesis on Koguryo wall painting in Heidelberg.

Jian LENG is a post-doctoral fellow of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, who also holds a lectureship at the Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri. She is an Old World archaeologist, specialising in Chinese archaeology.

Alfonz LENGYEL, the American Director of the Sino-American Field School of Archaeology, wrote in 1997 that "in collaboration with the Shaanxi Province Archaeology Research Institute, we discovered three tombs and one of the 'offering chambers' to the tomb of Qin Shi-huang, the First Emperor of China, during the summer of 1996. I am now preparing to discover the tomb of Qin Shi-huang. So far only the terracotta soldiers have been discovered."

Cheng-Sheng LIU is interested in Chinese art and archaeology, and is working on Han funeral jades (220 BC-AD220), especially focusing on jade suits.

Chao-hui Jenny LIU spent some months in 1997 at Academia Sinica.

Tracy L.D. LU is working on her PhD at ANU in Canberra, on the topic "The Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Cultivation and the Origins of Agriculture in China". She wrote in 1997 that so far she had completed one year of the course, reading up on theories relevant to the topic. From October 1995-October 1996 she spent a year doing fieldwork in China and Hong Kong; she has made observations on wild millet and wild rice, as well as harvesting experiments; she has also updated herself on the most recent archaeological discoveries relevant to her topic. She was returning to Australia to write up her thesis while looking for a job upon graduation, probably in 1998.

Richard MacNEISH wrote in 1997 "we, the SAJOR (Sino-American Jiangxi Origin of Rice Project) have just concluded investigations over three years (1993-6) with the Bureau of Cultural Relics. In our two major cave excavations we have a long Late Palaeolithic (40,000 BP) to Middle Neolithic (6500 BP) sequence of cultural phases documenting the beginnings of rice cultivations. We are now applying for another three-year permit to supplement our findings."

Jianjun MEI wrote in 1997 that he is studying for a PhD degree at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge on the topic "Copper and Bronze Metallurgy in Prehistoric Xinjiang and comparisons with the neighbouring Bronze Age cultures".

Gina MICHL has a bachelors degree in geology and has an interest in geoarchaeology. She studied Japanese at college and spent a semester in Japan. She is interested in Korea and spent last spring excavating there.

S. NAQUIN is interested in the material culture of the Qing dynasty.

Jane OKSBJERG is a student at Moesgaard, the Danish Institute of Prehistory. She has been combining a degree in Japanese with specially tailored courses in Japanese archaeology. As part of her final exams she has been working on a comparative study of Japanese Yayoi rice reapers and Danish Neolithic flint sickles from the perspective of use-wear analysis.

John W. OLSEN, has become Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. During the summer of 1998, the Joint Mongolian-Russian-American Archaeological Expedition, co-directed by Olsen, completed its fourth field season of excavation and reconnaissance in Bayan Hongor and Gobi Altai aimags, southern Mongolia. On 19 April 1998, Olsen was elected an Honorary Academician of the newly constituted Mongolian Academy of Humanities.

Margarete PRUCH published her thesis on Han lacquer wares in 1997.

Jessica RAWSON held a graduate seminar in Chinese archaeology and art in 1997.

Lilla RUSSEL-SMITH was organiser of the Circle of Inner Asian Art (CIAA at SOAS) and co-editor of the Newsletter, while finishing her thesis on "10th-11th century Dunhuang Art".

Filippo SALVIATI is researching on the Chinese jades housed in the Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst in Cologne. In 1998 he will publish his results in the volume devoted to the scholar Alfred Salmony. The publication of the book and the exhibition of the MOK jades will coincide with the 40th anniversary of Salmony's death. In 1997 on behalf of the MNHOR (Museo Nazionale di Arte Orientale, in Rome) he was cataloguing and studying a number of collections of Oriental art in Italy. He was also preparing his PhD thesis for publication on "The Jades of the Liangzhu Culture: an Iconographic Study", and carrying on a research project on rock-crystal artefacts in ancient China.

Lynn A. SHEPARTZ was involved in excavations in the Palaeolithic cave site of Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, China, in 1997. She headed the team with Savi Miller-Antonio (Cal. St. Stanislaws) and HUANG Weiwen (IUPP Beijing). The first season of full excavations was July-August 1996, and the next season was scheduled for August 1997.

Marianna SERANDREI did an MA Art/Archaeology course at SOAS, attending Japanese art (major), Korean Buddhist art and Southeast Asian art (minor courses). Her dissertation was to be on the Jomon period, and she was applying for an MPhil/PhD at SOAS on Jomon figurines and Siberian art influences on them.

Barbara SEYOCK writes that she held a Monbusho Research Fellowship from July-August 1997 at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Letters, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan whilst working on her PhD dissertation.

Hsueh-man SHEN studies Chinese archaeology and art history and is particularly interested in the Six Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty. She is now researching glass wares from the Sui to the Southern Song dynasties (589-1279 AD).

Sarah TAYLOR was working in 1997 as a Departmental Assistant and speech-writer fro the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. She retains a strong interest in both the pre- and protohistory of Northeast Asia and the modern politics of that region.

Gill THOMPSON is investigating prehistoric agriculture, in particular rice domestication, through phytolith studies and other archaeological approaches.

Pamela VANDIVER is a senior research scientist in ceramics. She studies ancient ceramic (broadly defined), including pigments, plasters, glass, enamels, glazes and pottery, especially technologies in Eurasia. Her background in craft production, technical analysis and culture history is the base of her research and she can work in different time frames from Palaeolithic to modern times.

Laura VIGO is studying for an MPhil/PhD in Chinese archaeology at SOAS in London, working on Northern Zone Bronze and Iron Age artefacts. In 1997 she took an MA in Art and Archaeology, majoring in Chinese archaeology, and was particularly interested in Bronze Age China and interactions with Central Asia and nomadic art (steppe art).

Donald B. WAGNER is teaching Chinese archaeology at the University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Berlin.

Alex C.H. YIP was posted out of the Antiquities and Monument Office to operate a new government Heritage Section to review and formulate policies on heritage preservation from February 1996. He was external examiner for two MA students in South China archaeology of the Anthropology Department, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China-both were awarded the degree afterwards. (Professor AN Zhimin was Chairman of the Panel). He also assisted in setting up and lecturing in an extra-mural course on museum science for the University of Macao, designed especially for the young officers of the new Museum of Macao.

Zhijun ZHAO was awarded a one-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Smithsonian Institute in 1997 and has moved to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, located in Panama. He was working on a project entitled "Environmental Reconstruction in the Middle Yangtze region, China". In China he carried out a successful lake-coring in Dongting Lake and Boyang.

 

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FIELD & RESEARCH REPORTS:

For articles to appear in this section, they should be limited to 500 words and submitted to the Editor by the issue deadlines stated on the front cover of EAANnouncements: mid-February 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!!

 

Fieldwork in the Russian Far East: Far-Eastern Archaeological Fieldschool
  by Andrei V. Tabarev
The "Far-Eastern Archaeological Fieldschool" (FAF) carries out archaeological research and fieldwork in the eastern coastal zone (Zerkal'naya River valley) of the Maritime Region in Russia. The FAF, a joint project between the Far Eastern State University (Vladivostok) and the Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography (Novosibirsk), is now in its second season, and was attended by Russian scholars, students, graduate students and two archaeologists from the University of Wyoming, Laramie, in 1998. The 1998 program included the excavations of two Final Paleolithic sites-Suvorovo-III (about 11,500 BP), Suvorovo-IV (about 13-14, 000 BP)-and the Bronze Age site Suvorovo-VIII (about 2,000 BP), lectures on the archaeology and ethnography of the Russian Far East, and several excursions over the archaeological and historical sites in the region.
Despite belonging to the same chronological period, it seems that the Suvorovo-III and Suvorovo-IV sites reflect different stages of the peopling of the river valley in the final Pleistocene. One indication for this is the fact there are some differences in stratigraphical context and stone toolkit between these two sites. For example, the stone toolkit found at Suvorovo-IV consists of wood-working tools (axes, adzes, gravers, drills), bifacies, elongated flakes as blanks for tools, big subprismatical cores for direct percussion, and a great amount of debitage. According to the disposition and use-wear results, this site may preliminarily be interpreted as the site for seasonal salmon fishing and tool-making. In contrast, Suvorovo-III records include wedge-shaped microcores, some prismatic blades, different types of burins, pieces of pressure points and scrapers. These suggest a stronger hunting specialisation, with a limited tool production. Suvorovo-VIII site is a small seasonal Bronze Age camp without any remains of dwelling constructions or fireplaces. Large numbers of broken pottery and several retouched points and knives were found. Excavations of Suvorovo-III and Suvorovo-IV will be continued next year.
Any specialists, professionals, students or graduate staff interested in participation in the 1999 program are welcome to contact Dr. Andrei V.Tabarev or Dr. Alexander A.Kryp'anko (Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok).

Dr. Andrei V. Tabarev,
Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography,
Novosibirsk,Russia
(e-mail: [...])

 

Regional Archaeological Project in Chifeng, Northeast China
  by Gideon Shelach
Our plan to start full-scale cooperative fieldwork in the Chifeng area of Northeast China had to be adjusted to the fact that until June no working permit had been issued. In hindsight, this set-back, which we share with few other cooperative projects, can be blamed on the fact that the process of obtaining permissions for such fieldwork takes much more time than our Chinese partners have anticipated. Although the applications were submitted in March, by the end of June it was only just approved by the Cultural Relics Bureau and was submitted to the office of National Security. We finally received the final permission in September, too late to start a full-scale field-work.
Because of this we had to revise our plans. Instead of the larger team which was expected to go to China, a team of four people was sent with the view of conducting a planning season. The participants in this team were Prof. Robert Drennan (University of Pittsburgh), Dr. Gideon Shelach (The Hebrew University) Gwen Bennett (UCLA) and JIANG Yu (University of Pittsburgh). Our Chinese collaborators included TA La, and GUO Zhizhong (Inner Mongolia Institute of Archaeological Research), YANG Jianhua and TENG Mingyu (Jilin University) and ZHU Yangping (Academy of Social Science, Beijing). In the absence of work permits, the focus of our stay in China was on preparing the ground for large-scale work which will be initiated next year. Our three immediate goals were: 1. To discuss and clarify theoretical and methodological issues relevant to the conduct and analysis of a regional survey; 2. To visit the area to be surveyed and refine our methodology according to environmental conditions and to the types of sites most common in this targeted area; 3. To prepare in advance, forms, technical guidelines and assemble the necessary equipment so that we can start surveying as soon as the work permit is in hand.
Two lectures by Prof. Drennan focused on large scale regional surveys in the valley of Mexico and on his own work in the Valley de-Laplata in Colombia. These were the starting points for vivid discussions on issues which range from theoretical questions such as the contribution of regional survey to the understanding of socio-political processes, to methodological issues such as the relation between surface collections and the content of sites, to the nut-and-bolts of how the survey is conducted. Reviewing the analysis and results of projects already completed enabled us to focus on the collecting procedures we intend to follow and the kind of data we will accumulate in anticipation of the types of analysis, such as statistical and GIS, we want to conduct.
Since we intend to employ several small groups of 3-4 people each, which will survey different parts of our targeted area, a crucial aspect of our work this year was to develop a method of surveying, recording and collecting data in the field that is agreed upon and followed by all participants. Visits to sites, previously surveyed by Dr. Shelach and ZHU Yangping, were designed to improve our understanding of the environmental and cultural conditions at the targeted area. After the participants had a better sense of surface visibility, density of artifacts and the cultural sequence in the area, we experimented with the methods and practice of the survey. We have examined such aspects as the location of sites on the satellite image, usage of the GPS equipment, defining the area of the site and the collection procedures at different parts of the site.
Based on the experience gained in the field and on the theoretical goals of our research, we have discussed and written down unified guidelines addressing all aspects of the fieldwork. We have also worked out bilingual site and collection forms to be filled out in the field. These are for the most part mark-on forms, prepared to facilitate the entry of information into a computerized data management system. Based on our experience we have also compiled a list of equipment necessary for our work and verified which of these items can be purchased locally.
In spite of the obvious disappointment of not being able to start the actual field work, we feel that this season contributed much to the cooperation among participants in the project. We could not have come to the mutual understanding of the goals and methods of the project without this preliminary experience in the field.

Gideon Shelach,
Department of East Asian Studies,
The Hebrew University,
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel
(e-mail: [...])

 

The oldest site on Hokkaido: Fudozaka
  by KAJIWARA Hiroshi
On 3 July 1998, representatives of Hokkaido International University (Prof. J. Nagasaki), the Tohoku Palaeolithic Institute (S. Fujimura, T. Kamada) and Tohoku Fukushi University (Prof. H. Kajiwara) discovered the oldest site on Hokkaido. Named Fudozaka, the site is located near the town of Shintotsukawa, some 90km to the north of Sapporo. Fudozaka is located on a higher terrace on the west bank of the River Ishikari, 70 m. above river level.
As a result of the special survey carried out by the team, 2 dejete-like scrapers and 2 points were unearthed from a horizon consisting of the upper part of a reddish weathered stratum deposited during the last interglacial. Taking into account the simultaneous phenomenon of weathering, the lithics must be dated to around 100,000 to 80,000 ybp. Tephro-geologists are seeking widely spread, identical tephras, which would serve to inter-relate deposits far-flung throughout the Japanese archipelago. On one of the dejete-like points, traces of hafting, fixed by fire, are recognized on both sides.
This is a very confirmative evidence that some of dejete-like flake points functioned as spear points with handle.This discovery has opened a new era for North Eurasian Palaeolithic studies. Due to it, the hypothesis has become possible that Homo Sapiens migrated from Mongolia to the Japanese Archipelago along a northern route through the Maritime Region of Russia and Sakhalin, as well as along the established southern route, through the Korean Peninsula.

Hiroshi KAJIWARA,
Tohoku Fukushi University,
Kunimi 181, Aoba-ward,
Sendai 981-8522, Miyagi, Japan
(e-mail: [...])
 

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DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS

PhD Degrees

The Origins of Chinese Writing: Archaeological and textual analysis of the pre-dynastic evidence
  by Paola DEMATTE, Ph.D. in Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996,
The present dissertation is a comparative study in the field of Chinese palaeography, art history, ancient history and archaeology. Its aim is that of decoding and pinpointing in time the origins of the Chinese writing system, demonstrating that contrary to what some scholars still seem to believe, writing started in China very early, possibly just as early as in the Middle East.
The dissertation is divided into two main parts. The first (Chapter I) is a theoretical discussion about writing, which shows that rather than being simply a method of recording spoken language, writing grew out of a human need visually to record events and things, as a mnemonic device and an externalization of memory.
The second deals primarily with the historical origin of Chinese writing and of Chinese civilization as a whole during the Longshan era. Specifically, Chapter II discusses historical sources and legends concerning the pre-Xia period, Chapter III presents the archaeological evidence of the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, and Chapter IV examines the pre-Shang signs, graphs and glyphs excavated in archaeological context.
 

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JOBS & GRANTS

Job Offer
The Field Museum, which has substantial East Asian collections of archaeological, historical and ethnographic material, invites applications for an Assistant Curator or beginning Associate Curator in East Asian Archaeology or Anthropology. We are searching for a dedicated scholar with an active commitment to empirical research who will be a major contributor to a blossoming research and public learning program. The candidate should have a proven record of grantsmanship and an excellent publication record in top-tier venues of broad circulation and international renown. We are looking for a colleague who has demonstrated an ability to work with material culture and who can deftly address major theoretical themes through their research. A strong preference will be given to candidates whose theoretical interests dovetail with those of our current staff. The FM encourages women and men of diverse backgrounds and seeks to assure equal opportunity through an affirming diversity program. Please note that the qualifications include a Ph.D. in hand and the ability to communicate effectively in English. Deadline for applications is January 1, 1999. Send cover letter, vita, and names of three references to: Chair, Search Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, Field Museum, Roosevelt Rd. at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605.

Grants Received
The Henry Luce Foundation has announced the following grants awarded from January to June 1998 (to the United States-China Cooperative Research Program):
California State University, Stanislaus: "Human Evolution and Behavioral Complexity in the Palaeolithic of Southern China"-a three-year grant of $85,000.
Northern Illinois University "The Orgins and Spread of Tai Irrigated Rice Technology and Culture in Southern China"-a three-year grant of $85,000.
University of California Berkeley: "Landscape Archaeology and Ancient Salt Production in Zhong Xian, Chongqing Municipality, China"-a three-year grant of $89,000.
University of Chicago: "Between Han and Tang: Art and Archaeology in a Transitional Period"-a three-year grant of $85,000.
University of Massachusetts-Amherst: "People and Environment on the Northern Chinese Frontiers"-a three-year grant of $64,000.

The CSCC China Programs - National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China:
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Chinese, Indiana University, for "Archaeological Evidence for Early Medieval Daoism, with Special Reference to the Diffusion of the Lingbao Scriptures" (Research Program).
Larissa Schwartz, history, Yale University, for "Persians in the Tang World Order" (Graduate Program).

 

 

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LECTURES

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, IASSG Lecture Series:
5 November 1997 "A Tour of Babel: Horse Chariots and the Origin of the Indo-European Languages" by Dr. David Anthony
3 December 1997 "Petroglyphs of the Minusink Basin in Siberia and the origins of the Animal Style of Eurasia" by Dr. Henri-Paul Francfort
3 December 1997 "Early Cultures of the Tarim Basin" by Dr. Corinne Debaine-Francfort

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Hagop Kevorkian Lecture:
11 November 1997 "Before the Scythians: The Bronze Age Origins of Nomads of the Eurasian Steppe" by Dr. Natalia Shishlina (State Historical Museum, Moskow)

Education Centre, Royal Museum, Edinburgh, SO Lecture:
16 July 1998 "Chinese Lacquer: a Survey of the Historical Development of the Lacquer Craft in China" by Dr. HU Shih-chang (Honorary Adviser to the Hong Kong Museum of Art)

SOAS, London, CIAA lectures:
17 September 1998 "Western Motifs on Chinese Textiles (6th to 10th Centuries)" by Professor ZHAO Feng (Vice Director, China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, P.R.C.)
7 October 1998 "Pre-Islamic Bukhara as reviewed by its coinage" by Aleksandr Naymark (Independent Researcher, Berlin, Germany)
14 October 1998 "In the footsteps of the wild camel-new discoveries near Loulan, Xinjiang, P.R.C." by John Hare (Conservationist Explorer, U.K.)
29 October 1998 "Aniconism, the origin of the Buddha image, and the early Buddhist art of India" by Prof. Susan L. Huntingdon (Dept. of History of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S.A.)
18 November 1998 "Eurasian studies in Europe. East meets West in the work of Alfred Salmony (1890-1958) and Mario Bussagli (1917-1988)" by Dr. Filippo Salviati (Independent Researcher, Rome, Italy)
2 December 1998 "The Uighurs in Dunhuang around the tenth-eleventh centuries" by Prof. Takao MORIYASU (Dept. of World History, Osaka University, Japan)
 

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EXHIBITIONS & MUSEUM NEWS

This section may include overlaps with "Newsletter, EAAA" listings; for fuller information about art historical showings, subscribe to Newsletter, East Asian Art & Archaeology, Dept. Art History, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1357, USA.

FRANCE
The Musée Cernuschi in Paris will be showing "Rituals and Feasts in Ancient China: Bronzes from the Shanghai Museum" from 25 September 1998 until 10 January 1999.
The Maison de la Culture du Japon a Paris features "Jomon: L'Art du Japon des Origines" from 29 September until 28 November 1998. Several famous and rare examples of Jomon pottery, clay figurines and body ornaments are exhibited here, including for example the "Venus of Tanabatake".

P.R.C
The Shanghai Museum features "Archaeological Treasures on the Silk Road in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region" from 1 April-15 October 1998. The exhibition-the largest display of archaeological finds from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region ever held in China-displays more than 300 objects, includes richly dressed and well-preserved mummies, funerary objects, textiles (many in pristine condition), paintings, sculptures and documents. Some of the most interesting objects come from the Yingpan graveyard in Yuli county (200 km west of Loulan), which was excavated in 1995 and has been acclaimed as one of the ten most important archaeological finds in China by the State Ministry of Culture.
The Hong Kong Museum of Art was showing "Gems of China's Cultural Relics", a collection of over 160 objects ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the Qing dynasty, from December 16, 1997 until March 1, 1998.
The Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong displayed "Cultural Relics of Pre-Qin Periods from Hubei Province" from July to September 1998, and "The Dawn of Chinese Civilization: Jades of the Liangzhu Culture" from March 7 until May 24, 1998. It will show "The New Achievement in Archaeology (1987-96), CUHK Center for Chinese Archaeology and Art & Art Museum" from 25 November 1998 until 10 January 1999; and "Cultural Relics of Pre-Qin Periods from Hubei Province, Hubei Provincial Museum, Jingzhou Museum, Yichang Museum and Art & Art Museum" from 22 January until 21 March 1999.

TAIWAN
The National Palace Museum in Taipei includes the following exhibitions: "Artifacts from a Late Shang Dynasty Royal Tomb"and "Chinese Jades" (showing indefinitely); "Comparisons of Chinese and World Cultures", "Bronze Ritual Vessels of the Shang and Chou Dynasties", "Oracle Bones of the Late Shang dynasty", "Pre-Han Pottery", "Pottery between the Han and Sung Dynasties" and "Chinese Jades through the Dynasties" (permanent installations). "Chinese Jades" features jades ranging from Neolithic to modern in celebration of China's long history of jade artistry. The museum's website is at http://www.npm.gov.tw/.

USA
The Denver Art Museum will show the exhibition "White on White: Chinese Jades & Ceramics from the Tang through Qing Dynasties" from 3 October 1998 until 3 October 1999. Highlighting the elegance of this particular Chinese aesthetic favouring subdued tones, refined shapes, and intricate surface details, objects in this exhibition unveil the variations of white in both ceramic and jade objects. Jade is white when it has no impurities; the common presence of manganese, iron and other minerals creates the various hues of green, red, black or yellow. Pure white jade is the rarest variety and was most favoured by the Chinese. Unlike jade, white ceramics are human-made and depend on technology as well as raw materials. The collection includes examples of Ding ware (one of the five famous wares of the Song Dynasty (960-1279)) and an exceptional selection of bluish-white Qingbai ware. A variety of exquisite pieces ranging in date from the Tang to the Qing dynasties (8th-19th centuries) will be on view. The two private collections are on long-term loan to the museum from Hong Kong. Furthermore, the Denver Art Museum will be showing "Eternal Companions: Animal figures from Chinese tombs in the Sze Hong Collection" through 17 January 1999. Images of animals were often buried in Chinese tombs. This exhibition features objects from the Han through Tang dynasties and includes dogs, horses, sheep, camels, pigs, geese and more. Each animal figure on view represents those likely to be present in one's daily life, as well as various spiritual and symbolic needs for the afterlife. More information on the exhibitions can be found at the museum's web site: www/denverartmuseum.org.
The Freer Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. is showing "Shades of Green and Blue: Chinese Celadon Ceramic" since August 2, 1997. This exhibition of 44 Chinese ceramics will continue indefinitely and illustrates the development of the large family of glazes known in the West as Celadon. First developed by potters in the Shang dynasty (c. 1600-1050 B.C.), who observed the natural formation of a glassy coating on wood-fired stoneware, celadon evolved as a functional coating for storage jars and especially as an ornamental coating on ceramic vessels imitating the shape of ritual bronzes. In the Song dynasty (960-1279) Celadon-glazed ceramics reached their zenith when potters produced thicker, translucent, more intensively coloured glazes to approximate the colour of jade. Other regions of Asia eagerly sought to replicate this technology, creating distinct local variations. Examples of celadons from Vietnam, Korea, Thailand and Japan are also shown. For more information, check the website http://www.si.edu/Asia.
The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. is planning an exhibition entitled "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People", which is set to open on 29 April 1999. One of the features of this exhibition will be several carved wooden objects made by traditional Ainu artist Masahiro NOMOTO, including a 12-foot model of an ocean-going dug out canoe. For more information check website http://www.nmnh.si.edu/arctic.
From 2 March until 17 May 1998 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was showing an exhibition of early Asian textiles from the 8th until the 15th centuries, entitled "When Silk was Gold". This title alludes to the facts that gold thread was used amply in these fabrics, and that textiles were often used as valuable commodities in ancient times. The exhibition featured sixty-four superb Central-Asian and Chinese silks, tapestries and embroideries, several of which probably came from ancient tombs in Inner Asia or looted Tibetan temples. The catalogue includes essays by Anne Wardwell, James C.Y. Watt and Morris Rossabi.
The Ariadne Galleries in New York showed "Treasures of the Eurasian Steppes: Animal Art from 800 B.C. to 200 A.D." from 25 March until 16 May 1998. This exhibition consisted of almost two hundred bronze, silver and gold objects from Luristan, the northern Black Sea region (ancient Thrace and Scythia), Central Asia, southern Siberia, Mongolia and China. The goal of the exhibition was an attempt to explore the contribution of nomadic communities to the artistic traditions of their sedentary counterparts. A good example of this is illustrated by the animal motifs and imagery on some objects from the Dian culture, Yunnan province in southwest China, a region not usually associated with steppe cultures. The exhibition was accompanied by a fully illustrated colour catalogue; the proceeds of its sale will go to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. For more information, contact the Ariadne Galleries, 970 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, tel.: 212-77-3388, fax: 212-517-7562.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York was showing "China: 5000 years" from February 6- June 3 1998. This exhibition consisted of a traditional and a modern section and featured works of jade, bronze, tomb ceramics, stoneware and porcelain, sculpture, painting and calligraphy from the Neolithic to the Modern Era. In July 1998 the exhibition will travel to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
From January 31 to May 24, 1998 the Art Institute of Chicago showed "Ise by Ishimoto", an exhibit of photographs of one of the most sacred shrines in Japan. Rare permission was granted to Yasuhiro ISHIMOTO to access and photograph highly restricted areas in Ise. The exhibit was co-curated by the Departments of Photography and Asian Art.
 

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NOTEWORTHIES

Notes in the current issue are 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. PROJECT ON THE EARLY BUDDHIST CAVES IN XINJIANG AND GANSU
   Professor Angela F. Howard of Rutgers University has been awarded the 1998-99 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers for the project "A Comparative Study of the Early Buddhist Caves of Kizil (Xinjiang) and the Liang Caves of Gansu". The primary goal of this investigation is to reconstruct the fourth-century transmission of Buddhist art and religion from Central Asia to northwest China. The project will focus on the earliest cave temple art of Kizil, the most important centre on the northern Silk Route in the early fourth century, and examine Kizil's impact on several late fourth-century cave temple sites in Gansu. These sites, Wenshushan, Jintasi and Matisi, display a distinctive Gansu interpretation and are the earliest Buddhist cave temples known in China. The project will be undertaken in co-operation with Prof. MA Shichang of Beijing University. (Taken from CIAA Newsletter Issue #7, April 1998).
    
2. THE HUNTINGDON ARCHIVE
   The John C. and Susan L. Huntingdon Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Related Arts is a teaching and research archive that contains nearly 300,000 original colour slides and black and white and colour photographs of art and architecture throughout Asia. Works range from circa 2500 B.C. to the present, and documentation include contemporary religious activities in various parts of Asia. The Archive documents the art and architecture of these countries in situ, as well as works of art found in most major Asian, European and American museums. Currently the collection is being catalogued and data-based, with the goal of developing on-line, searchable access to the collection. Archive images are also available in a limited number via the Internet: http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/. Interactive CDs dealing with Asian art and culture are currently being designed with the help of a three-year grant. The first CD focuses on "Site Surveys", including sites in China and Japan. Preservation of photographic documentation of Asian materials is a primary mission of the Archive. In an effort to help preserve photographs taken by scholars, the Huntingdon Archive accepts donations of photographic collections. Furthermore, if you are aware of photographic collections of Asian art, architecture or ritual that would be useful to scholars and students and need a permanent home, please contact: Janice M. Glowski, Associate Curator, The Huntingdon Archive, 204 Hayes Hall, 108 North Oval Mall, Department of History of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1318, U.S.A. Tel: 614-292-5374; fax: 614-292-4401; e-mail: glowski.l@osu.edu.
   (Taken from CIAA Newsletter Issue #7, April 1998).
    
3. AWARDED AMERICAN MUSEUM WEBSITE
   The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been selected as one of the very best American Museum web sites by "USA Weekend". Please look into this award-winning site at http://www.upenn.edu/museum.
   (Taken from Newsletter of East Asian Art and Archaeology # 57/58, 1998).
    
4. REINSTALLATION AT PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, OREGON
   Curator Donald Jenkins has recently reinstalled the Asian Art collections in new Chinese, Japanese and Korean galleries. He rearranged the collection in such a way that viewers would be in a position to observe the similarities and differences within the cultures.
   (Taken from Newsletter of East Asian Art and Archaeology # 57/58, 1998).
    
5. NEW VIDEO RELEASES FROM "MEDIA FOR THE ARTS"
   Media for the Arts announced its new Fall video releases that include videos titled "Imperial Tombs of China", "In the Shadow of Angor Watt" and "Splendours of the Ottoman Sultans". In addition, they offer one program titled "Masterpieces of World Art: the Harvard University Art Museums". This CD-rom features artwork from the Fogg Museum, the Arthur Sackler Museum and the Busch-Reisinger Museum. A complete catalogue of the Media for the Arts programs is online at http://www.art-history.com or available through mail. Media for the Arts, P.O. Box 1011, Newport, Rhode Island 02840-6631, USA; tel: 800-554-6008; fax: 401-846-6580; e-mail: artmfa@art-history.com.
   (Taken from Newsletter of East Asian Art and Archaeology # 57/58, 1998).
    
6. FOUNDER OF INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN STUDIES PASSED AWAY
   The Institute for Asian Studies (N.Y.C.) which had offered sixteen years of lectures and courses as well as trips to China and Central Asia, regrettably will no longer be able to continue. Joan Hartman-Goldsmith, founder and Director of the Institute and authority on Chinese Jade, passed away in December 1996.(Taken from Newsletter of East Asian Art and Archaeology # 57/58, 1998).
    
7. NEW ARCHAEOLOGY AND SCIENCE MAGAZINE
   The first issue of "Discover Archaeology', a new illustrated, glossy bimonthly magazine will be available from late December this year. Apart from reporting on archaeological projects and discoveries from all over the globe, it will cover North American prehistoric and historic archaeology, as well as underwater archaeology. More information can be found in the magazine's web site (currently under construction): www.discoverarchaeology.com.
    
8. HRAF: NEW 'COLLECTION OF ARCHAEOLOGY' ON THE WEB
   The Human Relations Area Files has initiated two archaeological projects in 1996. The first is the Encyclopedia of Archaeology, which will be published by Plenum in 1999. The second is this Collection of Archaeology, which will feature 15,000 pages of descriptive text and graphics on 10-15 major archaeological traditions each year. Additional files included on the traditions prior to and following each sample case will facilitate comparative studies of archaeological sequences. Information on particular topics can be retrieved either through HRAF's 700 subject categories (the indexing system known as the Outline of Cultural Materials) and/or through Boolean, proximity or simple word searches. For more information, contact HRAF, 755 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, U.S.A., tel. 203-764-9401 or 800-520-4723; fax: 203-764-9404; e-mail: hrafmem.mail@yale.edu.
    
9. CHINESE 'STATUE OF LIBERTY'?
   Here is news for people interested in the history of agriculture and medicine: China unveiled one of the world's tallest bronze statues, weighing 150 tons and standing 39 meter, in northern Shanxi province. This statue depicts Shen-Nong, or "divine farmer", who according to Chinese legend is the inventor of settled agriculture, the plow, the hoe and the public market. Visitors may climb to the top of the statue via interior stairs. (Tang JIJUN, YIN De An; China News Digest 08/31/98)
   (Forwarded by Nathan Sivin, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania)
    
10. SHIPWRECKS ALONG THE FUJIAN COAST
    Since the late 1980s, Australian maritime archaeologists from the Western Australian Maritime Museum (WAMM) have been working together with the Chinese Museum of History in Beijing and the Fujian Provincial Museum to survey the coastal waters near Dinghai in northern Fujian. So far, no less than 12 potential underwater sites have been located. One of these, Bai Jiao 1 site, was extensively excavated in the early 1990s. The curator of the Maritime Archaeology Department at WAMM, Sarah Kenderdine, has presented a report concerning this site, which can be read at the Museum's website (www.mm.wa.gov.au/Museum/excavate/Bai_Jiao/). According to the report, the Bai Jiao 1 excavation, led by Jeremy Green (one of the pioneers of underwater archaeology in Southeast
    Asia) yielded mainly black glazed temmoku-type tea bowls, followed by qingbai white-glazed vessels. Although several blue-and-white sherds were also recovered, Kenderdine implies that these might not have been part of the original cargo, which is attributed to the Ming period. However, the editors of ACRO Update wonder whether there was more than just one shipwreck at the site, since no shiphull(s) were found, and the finds seem to cover a wider spectrum of types and dates. Furthermore, they suggest that the ceramics described could possibly also be dated to the earlier Yuan or Song dynasties. The excavators might have other sources of dating evidence, so the wait is for the final report. (Abstract from ACRO Update 3: September 1998).
     
11. KITORA TOMB MURALS DISCOVERED
    Representations of constellations, or seishuku (celestial maps), were discovered on the ceiling of the late-seventh or early-eighth-century stone-chambered Kitora Tomb in Asuka, Nara prefecture. Other discoveries in this tomb include polychrome murals depicting two creatures traditionally considered sacred: the byakko (white tiger) and the seiryû (blue dragon). The seishuku, in particular, are finer than those in the contemporaneous Takamatsuzuka Tomb, also in Asuka, which is known for its Chinese-style polychrome murals. The new finds will be vital to comparative analyses of the murals of the two ancient tombs, which should provide valuable information on cultural interaction between Japan, China, the Korean peninsula, and other areas in ancient times. (From The Japan Foundation Newsletter XXVI/no. 1 (1998), highlighting an article from Yomiuri Shimbun, 7 March 1998).
     
12. AINU ARTEFACTS IN RUSSIA CATALOGUED
    The Russian Academy of Sciences Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great possesses an extensive collection of artifacts of the Ainu, an ethnic group now found chiefly on Hokkaido, the most northern island of Japan. Professor Shinko OGIHARA of Chiba University and researchers from both Russia and Japan studied and photographed a total of about nineteen hundred items in the museum's collection-including religious implements, hunting gear, woodenware, and clothing-many of which were recovered from the Chishima (Kuril) Islands, Sakhalin and Hokkaido. A trilingual (English, Japanese, and Russian) catalogue of these Ainu artifacts was compiled and has been published by Sofukan, Tokyo. (From The Japan Foundation Newsletter XXVI/no. 1 (1998), highlighting an article from Asahi Shimbun, 1 April 1998).
     
13. WORLD HERITAGE SITES TO BE RECOMMENDED
    Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs has confirmed its plan to recommend that the renowned shrine Tosho-gu and several other shrines and temples in Nikko, Tochigi prefecture, be placed on the World Heritage list. The buildings to be recommended cover a total area of approximately 500,0000 m2 and include Tosho-gu (the mausoleum of the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu), Futarasan Shrine, the Tendai temple Rinno-ji, and other historic religious buildings. More than one hundred buildings in the region that typify architecture of the Edo Period (1603-1868) have been designated as either National Treasures or Important Cultural Properties. (From The Japan Foundation Newsletter XXVI/no. 1 (1998), highlighting an article fromSankei Shimbun, 19 April 1998).
     

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CONFERENCES:

CONFERENCE CALENDAR

Titles new to this issue are emboldened and those dealing specifically with East Asia are starred
 

Past Conferences

April 21-26 '98: Museums and the WEB: An International Conference, Toronto, Canada. Abstracts that were selected are available on the website: www.archimuse.com/mw98. In addition, selected papers from last year's conference held at Los Angeles are available for purchase in book form. Contact: Jennifer Trant, tel: 412-638-9775; fax: 412-683-7366; e-mail: jtrant@archimuse.com

*July 9-12 '98: Central Asian Workshop, University of Illinois, Chapmaign-Urbana, U.S.A. A wide variety of disciplines concerning Central Asian studies in the U.S. will be represented at the workshop, including history, political science, economics, literature and anthropology. Scholars from all over the world are invited, but overseas travel expenses will not be available. For further information contact: Keely Lange, Dept. of Government and International Studies, 219 O'Shaughnessy Hall, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN 46556, USA, tel.: 219-631-9017; fax: 219-631-4268; e-mail: keely.o.lange.3@nd.edu.

*Aug 2-7 '98: Dulan Workshop and Field Trip, Archaeology Institute of Qinghai Province, Xining, P.R.C. The proposed trip will include a workshop at the Archaeology Institute in Xining to introduce the archaeology of Dulan. This will be followed by a three-day field trip to archaeological sites of interest in the viciinity of Dulan and Kokonoar (Qinghai Lake), as well as visits to the Kumbun Monastery, Quatan-si Monastery and temple complex, and the Majiayao site. Final briefings and discussions will take place at the archaeology Institute. For further information contact: Susan Dewar or Bruce Doar, tel./fax: 1-849-8987; e-mail: atext@public3.bta.net.cn.

*Sept 12-14 '98: The Civilization of the Western Region in Tang Dynasty: Anxi Chief Supervisor's Office, Xinjiang Kucha Caves Research Institute, Kizil Caves, P.R.C. The topics for discussion include history, economy, literature, art, languages, historical figures and military affairs of the Western regions; the interrelation between the Anxi Chief Supervisor's Office and the Turks, Uygurs, and Qiuci, etc. In addition to the three-day conference, participants will be visiting the Kizil caves, the Kumtura Caves, Subashi, the Simsin Caves in Korla, Jiaohe, Gaochang, the Bezeklik Caves and the Astana Tombs in Turfan. For further information contact: HE Fang, Fu1, 132, Xibei Road, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830000, P.R.C., tel./fax: 991-483-7114.

*Sept 18-20 '98: Worlds of the Silk Road: Ancient and Modern, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. The third biannial conference of the Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies to be held at Macquarie University. For further information please contact: Beth Lewis: Tel: 2-9850-7560; fax: 2-9850-8892 or Craig Benjamin: tel.: 2-9451-7139 or e-mail: garigal@acay.com.au.

*Oct 8-11 '98: Workshop on Central Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. The goal is to provide an opportunity for interested scholars, institutions, and organisations to meet annually, to discuss how to research, teach and co-ordinate efforts in the Central Asian field. The theme of the workshop is "Rewriting Central Asian History"; additional topics include Turkic linguistics, Jadid drama and literature, and Tatarstan. Please contact: Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 210 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI, 53706-1397, U.S.A. Tel.: 608 -262-3379; fax: 608-265-3062; e-mail: creeca@macc.wisc.edu; web-site: http://polyglot.Iss.wisc.edu/creeca/.

*Oct '98: The 4th International Conference on Ancient Bronze Drums and Bronze Culture of Southern China and Southeast Asia, Guiyang, China. This conference will last five days; the working languages will be Chinese and English. Contact: Ms. ZHANG Yuan, Guizhou Museum, 47 Beijing Street, Guiyang, 550004, China, e-mail: gai@public1.gy.gz.cn.

*Oct 12-15 '98: Conference on Longquan Green Glazed Ware, Hangzhou, China. This conference will feature the launching of the long-expected, definitive catalogue of Longquan ware by Zhu Boqian; a special exhibition of fine pieces; a session on kiln sherds; and a visit to the Southern Song Imperial Kiln Site Museum. Contact: WANG Xiaohong, 25 Gushan Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Oct 30- Nov 1 '98: Art, Antiquity and the Law, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Registration is free. For more information on conference and registration, check out the website http: wwwl moa.ubc.ca, and www. rci.rutgers.edu/~allconf, or e-mail Alison Poe at poea@eden.rutgers.edu. [more information forthcoming?!]

Nov 11-13 '98: The China Circle-The Export of Chinese Porcelain Round the World, London, U.K. Seminar organized by Sotheby's London to study the export of Chinese porcelain to different countries around the world. Speakers will include John Carswell, Oliver Impey, Christina Jorg, David Howard, Kee Il Choi Jr., Maria Antonia Pinto de Matos, Kristina Soderpalm and Chantal Kozyreff. Tel: 171-462-3232; fax: 171-580-8160.

Nov 12-15 '98: 5th Gender and Archaeology Conference: "From the Ground Up: Beyond Gender Theory in Archaeology", University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Contact: Bettina Arnold, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Bolton Hall, Milwaukee, WI 53201; e-mail: barnold@csd.uwm.edu or to Nancy Wicker: nancy.wicker@mankato.msus.edu. Conference abstracts will be available at the following website http://www.uwm.edu/~barnold/.

Nov 12-15 '98: The 31st Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Canada. The theme of this conference is "On being first: Cultural Innovation and Environmental Consequences of First Peoplings". For further information, contact 1988 Conference Commitee, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T1N2N4 Canada, fax 2820-9567, e-mail: nicholls@acs.ucalgary.ca.

Nov 19-22 '98: The Inter-Congress Meeting of UISPP Commission for Data Management and Mathematical Methods in Archaeology, Scottsdale, Arizona. For information, please consult the web page http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/uispp or contact George Cowgill (e-mail: cowgill@asu.edu), or Keith Kintigh (e-mail: kintigh@asu.edu), Department of Anthropology, P.O.Box 872402, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402.

*Nov 21-23 '98: The Culture of Convents in Japanese History, Columbia University, New York. This International Conference is organized by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies. Further information may be obtained from: the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, Columbia University, 406 Kent Hall, New York, NY 10027 USA; tel.: 212-854-7403, fax: 212-678-8629, e-mail: medievaljapan@columbia.edu.

Future Conferences:
Jan 10-14 '99: World Archaeology Congress 4, Cape Town, South Africa. At the fourth meeting of the WAC, there will be a full and exciting academic programme, comprising symposia that will cover a wide range of issues in global archaeology today. Up-to-date information about the Congress can be found at Web site www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/wac or at www.globalconf.co.za/wac4. Contact: Carolyn Ackermann, Conference Secretariat, Global Conferences, P.O. Box 44503, Claremont 7735, Cape Town, S.A., tel.:21-762-8600, fax: 21-762-8606, e-mail: wac4@globalconf.co.za..

*Mar 11-14 '99: Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston.. Contact: Michael Aung-Thwin, Dept. of Asian Studies, Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822; tel.: 808-956-5962; e-mail: aungthwi@hawaii.edu, or Karen Fricke, Conference Manager, AAS, 1021 East Huron Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA; e-mail: kfricke@aasianst.org.

*Mar 24 -28 '99: SAA's 64th Annual Meeting, Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago. Contact: Society for American Archaeology, 900 Second Street NE #12, Washington DC 20002-3557, USA; tel. 202-789-8200; fax: 202-789-0284; e-mail: meetings@saa.org.

April 27-28 '99: Annual Paleoanthropology Society Meeting, The Hyatt Regency, Columbus, Ohio. Contact person: Dr. John Yellen, Archaeology Program- Room 995, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington VA 22230, tel. 703-306-1759, fax: 703-306-0485, e-mail: jyellen@nsf.gov. (see also: call for papers).

*August 23-27 '99: 9th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Singapore. This conference will be organised by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. Please refer to the conference website for details: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/conf/ICHSEA.html; or contact: Alan K.L. Chan, Vice-Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260; Tel: 65-874-6309; Fax: 65-777-0751; e-mail: alanchan@nus.edu.sg.

*Oct. 25-27 (?) '99: International Symposium on the Lower and Middle Paleolithic in the East Asia, Commemorizing the 80th Birthday of Professor SERIZAWA Chosuke, Sendai, Japan. Contact: Hiroshi KAJIWARA, e-mail: kajiwara@tfu-mail.tfu.ac.jp.
For more information on this symposium and its themes, see under Call for Conference Papers.

*Nov. (begin) '99: ISAC '99: International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics, Scientific and Technological Insights, Shanghai, China. Contact person: Prof. GUO Jing-Kun, Chairman of ISAC '99, President of SRSSTAC, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, China, tel. 21-6251-2990 *6610, fax: 21-6251-3903, e-mail: jkguo@sunm.shcnc.ac.cn.

*July (early) 2000: 2nd Worldwide SEAA Conference, Durham University Oriental Museum, England. Contact Dr. Gideon Shelach for academic program (msshe@mscc.huji.ac.il) or Ilona Bausch for local arrangements (CREAA@durham.ac.uk). Watch for program development on www.durham.ac.uk/SEAA.
 

 

CALLS FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS

THE ANNUAL PALEOANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY MEETING
will be held April 27-28 1999 in Columbus, Ohio, in conjunction with the American Association for Physical Anthropology. If you wish to have a paper considered for presentation, please submit an abstract by 1 December 1998 to: Dr. John Yellen, Archaeology Program- Room 995, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington VA 22230. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words and should be sent as both hard copy and on a computer disc. Twenty minutes will be allocated for each presentation. The abstracts will appear in a Spring issue of the Journal of Human Evolution.

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM TO COMMEMORATE THE 80th BIRTHDAY OF PROFESSOR CHOSUKE SERIZAWA
The 80th birthday of Professor Chosuke SERIZAWA falls on 21st October 1999, in honour of which we are proposing to hold a commemorative symposium. The conference will be concerned with some of the problems relating to Early and Middle Palaeolithic Archaeology in Eastern Asia, with the sub-theme of the earliest existence of humans on the Japanese Archipelago. Early and Middle Palaeolithic research which was pioneered by Professor Serizawa has been greatly developed. The earliest existence of man on the archipelago has been dated to 600,000 years bp and it is expected that evidence of even earlier habitation will be discovered. The Kamitakamori site yielded a cache pit dated to that period: the first discovery of its type in the world. In 1997, a lithic artefact from the Sodehara 3 site was found to fit perfectly on to an artefact found at the Nakajimayama site. Both sites have been dated to l00,000 years bp and they represent the earliest refittings in the Middle Palaeolithic. The aims of the symposium are firstly to clarify the current position of Early and Middle Palaeolithic Research in the area around Japan and secondly to present new views on Early and Middle Palaeolithic Archaeology, from a Eurasian perspective, based on the latest evidence. The topics to be considered at the symposium will be:
1. The earliest arrival of Homo erectus in the Far East, and problems of determining cultural lineage;
2. The context of the formation of lithic cultures with a view to establishing a new nomenclature for lithic artefacts;
3. New methodology in Palaeolithic Archaeology;
4. Palaeoanthropology.
The symposium will be hosted and sponsored by Tohoku Fukushi University in cooperation with the Tohoku Palaeolithic Institute. Dates: 1. The symposium 22nd-24th October 1999. 2. Excursions to the Sodehara and Kamitakamori sites, etc.: 25-26th October 1999.
Anyone interested in attending or participating is requested to contact The Kajiwara Laboratory, Tohoku Fukushi University, Kunimi 181, Aoba-ward, Sendai 981-8522, Miyagi, Japan; Tel: 22-233-3111 ext 173; Fax 22-233-3113; E-mail: kajiwara@tfu-mail.tfu.ac.jp.

SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ANCIENT CULTURES OF NORTH CHINA
According to a preliminary announcement, the conference will include sessions on:
1. The origins of the Hongshan culture;
2. The Lower Xiajiadian culture-a comparison with the "three dynasties' of the Yellow River area (Xia, Shang, Zhou);
3. The origins of the Upper Xiajiadian culture and the nomadic cultures of the north;
4. The Liao-Qidan culture and the national development in north China;
5. The formation and development of the Manchu-Mongolian cultures;
6. The attitude of cultures in north China towards external influences.
The conference will include academic sessions as well as field trips to important sites in the Chifeng area. The organizers invite foreign scholars to submit papers to the conference and take part in all the activities. For more details, contact: Mr. XUE Zhiqiang, The International Research Center for the Cultures of China, 134 Yunlin Street, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia 024000, China.
 

PAPERS READ

For copies of the papers listed here, please contact either the symposium or panel organizer if the author is unknown to you

The Silk Roads in Central Asia: Recent Research, December 1997, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Azarpay, Guitty; Dien, Albert & Mehendale, Sanjyot: Opening Remarks
Bernard, Paul: Ai Khanum, Afrasiab: Certainties and Uncertainties in the Chronology of the Hellenistic Period in Central Asia
Tanabe, Katsumi: A Kushano-Sasanian Silver Plate and Tigers of the Oxus
Wang, Binghua: Early Chinese Buddha Images and Hu habitations
Whitfield, Roderick: Shrines in the Desert: the Changing Face of Dunhuang
Yaldiz, Marianne: The Cave with the Ringbearing Doves, Cave 123, Qizil- an attempt at an interpretation
Francfort, Henri-Paul: Hunting and Fighting Images in the Rock Art of Central Asia
Davis-Kimball, Jeannine: Bridging the Gap: Gender and Eurasian Nomads
Leskov, Alexander: Contacts between the Tribes of South Eastern Europe and Ancient Near East during the First Millenium B.C.E.: Formation of the Western Part of the Silk Road
Hiebert, Fredrik: The Painted Pottery Tradition in Central Asia and its Implications for East-West Interaction
Grenet, Frantz: The First Century of Islamic Rule at Samarkand, as Shown by the Excavations of the French-Uzbek Archaeological Mission
Frank, Andre Gunder: ReOrient: From the Centrality of Central Asia to Middle Kingdom China
Bopearachchi, Osmund: Central Asia and Maritime Trade: Archaeological Evidence from Sri Lanka
Debaine-Francfort, Corinne: Early Buddhist and Pre-Buddhist Irrigated Oases in the Taklamakan Desert-Preliminary Results of the French-Chinese Archaeological Expedition in Keriya, Xinjiang, 1991-1996
Tsuchiya, Haruko: Preliminary Report of Field Research in Northern Pakistan, 1996-97
Lawergren, Bo: Migration of Music Along the Silk Road
Jacobson, Esther: Central Asian Nomadic Sources for Zhou-Han Representational Innovations
Hansen, Valerie: Reuniting Turfan's scattered Treasures
Han, Baoquan: A Discussion of the Influence of the Western Region's Civilization on the Life of the Nobility in the Tang Dynasty from the Perspective of the Pottery Figures from Princess Jinxing's Tomb
Ebert, Jorinde: Who Were the Donors of the Kizil Cave Paintings
Ghanimati, Soroor: New Perspectives on the Chronological Horizons of Sistan's Kuh-E Khwaja
Frye, Richard; Harper, Prudence; Dien, Albert; Carter, Martha & Spiro, Audrey: Panel Discussions
Stronach, David and Williams, Bruce: Closing Remarks

The Third Silk Road Conference, July 1998, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.
Chen Guocan: A Look at the Tang-dynasty Taxation System in Light of the Turfan Finds
Israfel, Yusuf: Newly Excavated Uighur-Language Documents from Turfan
Ma, Shichang: A Comparison of Buddhist Wall Paintings at Kizil, Turfan and Dunhuang
Qiu, Ling: Newly Excavated Epitaphs from Jiaohe City in theTurfan Oasis
Rong, Xinjiang: Daoism in Tang-Dynasty Turfan
Wang, Bingua: Turfan Finds in India and Korea, and New Finds at Jiaohe
Wang, Xiaofu: Tibetans in Turfan
Wu, Min: Non-Chinese huren as seen in Excavated Materials from the Astana Graves at Turfan
Zhu, Lei: Social Strata in Turfan Society During the Gaochang Kingdom and Tang Periods
Baker, Janet: The Image of the Heavenly King in Chinese Tombs and Temples: Sui and Early Tang Examples
Deng, Xiaonan: Women's Activities Outside the Household in Turfan
Dien, Albert: Tombs Revisited: Another Look at 86TAM384-391
Fraser, Sarah: The Artist's Practice in the Turfan Region, 5th-9th Centuries
Hansen, Valerie: How the Chinese Converted to Buddhism- or did they?: What the Turfan Graves Reveal About Religious Change
Ho, Judy Chung-Wa: Representations of Women in Turfan
Leidy, Denise: Bezeklik: Some Thoughts on Iconography and Practice
Sheng, Angela: Turfan Textiles: Art, Technology and Use in Tang China
Skaff, Jonathan: The Persian Silver Coins Found at Turfan and their Relationship to International Trade
Skjaervø, Oktor: Iranian Manichaeans in Turfan
Steinhardt, Nancy: Beiting: Provincial Tang Architecture in the Qoco Uygur Provinces
Xiong, Victor: The Equal-Field System as Seen from the Turfan Documents
Yamabe, Nobuyoshi: On the Mural Paintings of Meditating Monks in Turfan: In Conjunction with the Origin of Some Apocryphal Visualization Texts
Zang, Guangda: Manichaeism, Mazdeism and Nestorianism in the Western Regions

The Art of Japanese Lacquer, 26 September 1998, Harvard University Art Museum's M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, U.S.A.
Mowry, Robert D.: Chinese Lacquer: An Introduction to Its Origin and Evolution
Kitagawa, Anne R.: The Substance Beneath the Symbols: Lacquer in Japanese Culture
Yonemura, Ann: Transcending Decoration: The Primacy of Lacquer in the Arts of Japan
Watsky, Andrew M.: The Most Universal Art of the Kingdom: Lacquer of the Momoyama Period (1568-1615)
 

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Bibliography: Miscellaneous References on Zhou Archaeology

Bibliography: Miscellaneous References on Han Archaeology

Bibliography: Miscellaneous References on Post-Han Archaeology

 

 

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JOURNAL UPDATES

• ACRO Update (Asian Ceramic Research Organization), September 1998 (3)
• Victor H. Mair, ed., The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia
• Bulletin of the National Museum of Japanese History Vol. 72, 1997
• Bulletin of the National Museum of Japanese History Vol. 75, 1997
• Kōkogaku Kenkyū (Quarterly of Archaeological Studies), Vol. 45, No.2 (178), Sep 1998

 

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