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NAHA -- Japan's oldest-known color accessory has been unearthed from a stratum in cave ruins dating back to the Paleolithic period about 23,000 years ago in southernmost Okinawa Prefecture, a local museum announced on Oct. 21.
Archaeologists in Utah have unearthed artifacts from a long-abandoned town once populated by Chinese workers who helped build the first transcontinental railroad in the mid-19th century.
The newest issue of the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA) in Stockholm is a special edition for the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Yangshao Culture by Johan Gunnar Andersson. For this special event, we have created a booklet of abstracts in both English and Chinese.
University of Toronto
The 2nd edition of Archaeology of East Asia: The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan is now available in paperback format at Blackwell's for half price for a limited time.
The National Geographic Society has recently announced they are opening applications to the Meridian Projects and National Geographic Society Grants Program. Please find more details here: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/funding-opportunities/grants/
Meridian Projects
The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) will offer one award every year for the best published paper on science-based archaeological research in ceramics in honor of Charles C. Kolb. The purpose of the award is to promote and acknowledge research excellence in the field of archaeological ceramics and highlight the key role of interdisciplinarity.
The Department of Art History at Indiana University, Bloomington (https://arthistory.indiana.edu/) invites applications for a tenure-track position in East Asian art at the level of Assistant Professor to begin in the fall of 2022. We seek a dynamic and original thinker who is committed to excellence in scholarship and well-suited to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Ph.D. is required by August 1, 2022.
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Palaeoethnobotany/Archaeobotany. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, and will commence on July 1, 2022, or shortly thereafter.
Closing Date: 12/16/2021, 11:59PM ET
