Asia (Geographic Keyword)

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Material Assemblage and Social Changes in Central Tibet, the Second and the First Millennium B.C. (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xinzhou Chen.

Compared to the relatively well-researched area of Eastern Tibet Plateau, the archaeology of Central Tibet has long been neglected. This paper offers a review of academic debates concerning the site of Qugong and analyzed the newly found materials in Bangga and Changguogou site. Based on the available materials and 14C dating data, I here propose a primary chronological framework in Central Tibet and revealed the cultural affiliations of Central Tibet with Central Asia, as well as the cultural...

Mineral Resources and Metallurgical Technologies along the Southern Silk Road (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yingfu Li.

China's southwest region has vast terrain and diverse landscape with rich mineral resources. From the bronze age to the iron age, this area existed two very obvious metallurgical technology systems, "Central Plains" and "non-Central Plains". The coexistence of two systems is not only the result of "sinification" , but also the result of the circulation of metallurgical resource and transmission of technology as social response in the mountainous environment in southwest China.

Monuments in Bronze Age Mongolian Kinscapes (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Eklund.

This is an abstract from the "From the Altai to the Arctic: New Results and New Directions in the Archaeology of North and Inner Asia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tim Ingold’s (1993) work “The Temporality of the Landscape” introduced us to the concept of taskscapes, in which an array of tasks, overlapping and interlocking, work to create a specific place in the larger landscape. I am now introducing another innovative “scape,” one used...

New Evidence of Early Cultural Relations Between Eurasia and Western North America (1968)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles E. Borden.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Old Stone Age (1968)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francois Bordes.

Origins of Plant Husbandry in East Asia: the Japanese Perspective (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gary W. Crawford.

Pattern of Late Pleistocene Cultural Diversity in Eurasia and the Americas. In, Proceedings of the International Symposuim On Chronostratigraphy of the Paleolothic In North, Central, East Asia and America (Iscpneaa) (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan L. Bryan.

Photogrammetric Texture Mapping: A methodology of applying photorealistic textures on scanned dense points cloud data (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kotaro Yamafune. Christopher Dostal.

The biggest technological improvement to archaeological documentation techniques in recent years has been the implementation of various 3D digitization technologies, such as Computer Vision Photogrammetry and 3D laser scanning. Laser scanning produces the most accurate geometrical data available today, but it lacks the ability to accurately capture textures and diagnostic coloration information. Photogrammetric data produces highly accurate photographic textures, but the geometric data tends to...

Pleistocene Hominid and Megafauna Migration Routes To Southeast Asia: a Critical Reappraisal (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Shutler, Jr..

The Politics of Landscape Representation and Kamakhya (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Priyanka Tamta. Sukanya Sharma.

The archaeological site of Kamakhya is a religious site but it is also an important marker for studying the changing dynamics of socio-political and economic shift of this region. The 1512 years habitation history of the Kamakhya temple shows a gradual development of the site from a religious site to an archaeological site and finally as an historical landmark. Since the 5th century AD there was a continuous struggle between different beliefs, faiths and power on the site to become the dominant...

Problem of the Early Peopling of the Americas As Viewed from Asia (1951)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. B. Birdsell.

Proposed Prehistoric / Maritime Network from Southeast Asia To Korea and Japan (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only I. I. Soheim. G. Wilhelm.

Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Tibet and the 'Plateau Silk Road' (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wei Huo.

In the past, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region has been vacant in Silk Road route studies. The northern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau can be directly connected to the western region, with the Tarim Basin, Hexi Corridor, and the Loess Plateau together forming a very smooth ring. There are a number of oases connecting the desert and the Gobi, which has been considered by some as a direct connection of a Silk Road branch to the northern region of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The southern part of the...

The Religious Network in the Early Spanish Colonialism in Asia: A Comparative Study of Seventeenth-Century Church Sites in Archaeological Contexts (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Hsieh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Evangelization of China and Japan was one of the missions of Spanish colonial projects in Asia, and churches, as critical monuments in colonial landscapes, could be an access to investigate European colonial activities. However, unlike the rich studies of missionary archaeology in the Americas, although some church sites have been excavated or documented...

Review of Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture (2013)

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Vlcek.

Review of Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture

Review of Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture (2012)

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Vlcek.

Review of Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture

Sa-Huynh Elated Pottery in Southeast Asia (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only I. I. Solheim. Wilhelm G. Solheim.

SEM-EDS Analysis of Ceramics from the Mongol Empire (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lingyi Zeng. Jianxin Jiang.

I will use scanning electron microscope with an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (SEM-EDS) to investigate both elemental compositions and mineral microstructures of ceramics from the Mongol Empire. I will analyze and compare sherds from multiple contexts, including ceramic production centers, burials and residential areas to acquire qualitative and quantitative data on porcelain bodies, glazes, and pigments with the SEM-EDS technique. A high degree of similarities in chemical compositions...

Shipwrecks with stories (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rasika Muthucumarana. Rukshan Priyandana.

The presence of European sailing ships with masts and gun ports drawn on the walls of the 18th century Buddhist temples is a fascinating phenomenon, as these frescos show the stories of Lord Buddha and ancient Sri Lanka. They display how the traditions of the people living on the Sri Lankan coast were greatly influenced by Europeans. The presence of sailing ships anchored near the ports may have become a routine event which impacted how locals perceived local shipping traditions. Shipwreck...

Starch Remains from Human Teeth Reveal the Bronze and Early Iron Ages Vegetal Diet of Xinjiang, Northwest China (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sen You. Long Wang. John Olsen. Ying Guan. Quanchao Zhang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has long been a vital link between Europe and eastern Asia. In the past, understanding prehistoric diets in Xinjiang was based mainly on carbonized plant remains unearthed from archaeological sites and isotopic analyses of excavated human bones. Here, we report on our analysis of human dental residues preserved on...

Sunda and Sahul: Prehistoric Studies in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Allen. G. Golson. R. Jones.

Towards an Archaeology of the Japanese Immigration to Peru (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Dante Saucedo Segami. Patricia Chirinos Ogata.

The first evidence of culture contact between Japan and Peru can be traced back to the 16th century. Although the Japanese immigration did not start officially until 1899 with the arrival of the ship Sakura Maru to the Peruvian coast, the earlier presence of 20 indios de Xapón (indians from Japan) was recorded in 1613. This immigration process has been often studied by historians, and the situation of their descendants has been analyzed by anthropologists and sociologists. However, there are...

Unentangling Hotspots and Episodes in Pre-domestication Cultivation of Cereals: Examples from West and East Asia (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dorian Fuller.

This is an abstract from the "Subsistence Crops and Animals as a Proxy for Human Cultural Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The growth of empirical archaeobotanical data has highlighted that domestication processes in cereals were spread out over both time (millennia) and space (100,000s rather than 10,000s of km2). Updated data from West Asian cereals and pulses, alongside Chinese millets and rice, are analyzed. These data allow...

The World of the Living and the World of the Dead - A Bronze Age Monumental Landscape in Central Mongolia (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ursula Brosseder.

This is an abstract from the "From Campsite to Capital – Mobility Patterns and Urbanism in Inner Asia" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Bronze Age landscape in Mongolia is characterized by valleys with regularly arranged groups of monuments which are believed to represent the focus of a community. Depending on the ecology of the area the distance between such site clusters varies. This even distribution is punctuated by large concentrations of...