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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kazuo Miyamoto.

Iron production in this paper is divided into two types; wrought iron and cast iron. Wrought iron was spread through the Eurasian grasslands to China two times; at the middle of second millennium BC and 9th to 8th century BC. At the later time, wrought iron daggers with golden or bronze handles spread to northwestern China. After wrought iron arrived in the Central Plains of China where bronze working was developed, there was the invention of cast iron technology. Development of cast iron...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Hermsmeyer. Hung-Lin Chiu. Ying-Hsuan Kuo. Madeline Tribbett. Andrew Somerville.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Taiwan has a unique cultural and dietary history within Asia. This is in large part due to the local indigenous Austronesian populations, recent mass migration and colonization from peoples across China, as well as colonial occupations by the Netherlands, Spain, and Japan over the last 400 years alone. However, this recent history and its impact on dietary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kuei-chen Lin.

In earlier studies, scholars have focused on the measurement of vessels’ dimensions to assess the degree of standardization. It should be noted however that not all dimensions are culturally salient or equally important. Moreover, when manufacturing processes can be decomposed into multiple stages, cultural idiosyncrasies that have been shaped through either institutionalized or unconscious ways might affect and be sought in any of these stages. This has called for analyses on ceramics by using...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tao Dawei.

This research aims to investigate the human foodstuffs and lifestyle during the Western and Eastern Zhou Dynasties in the core area of the Central Plains using starch grain analysis of human dental calculus. Plant microfossils, starch grains and phytoliths, which were found in most of calculus samples from Guanzhuang site, were from millets, bread wheat, rice, adzuki, tubers and acorns. Diversity of starch grains and phytoliths in morphological characteristics extracted from dental calculus...

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Dods. Olivia Navarro-Farr. Karen Alley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation is a large-scale comparative case study of two distinct regions to see how their use and control of water was similar given their environments but different from social, political, and cultural perspectives. Specifically, I examine the sociopolitical nature of Angkor Wat as an expression of ancient Khmer culture and the Classic Maya city of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xuewei Zhang. Jiaqi Wang. Chunxue Wang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stone armor was unearthed in Pit K9801 of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in 1998. In 2001, a large number of stone armor semi-finished products and processing tools were again discovered in a well of Qin Dynasty in Xinfeng Town on the south bank of the Wei River, clarifying for the first time where stone armor was produced. In 2019, stone armor was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ron Adams.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stone remains a prominent feature of the natural and cultural landscape of Tana Toraja, Indonesia, where outcropping basalt and limestone karst formations create a dramatic backdrop. In this context, the manipulation of stone is an important aspect of ancient cultural traditions that persist to the present day, but which has received relatively little...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xin Zhonghua.

Xiaguanzi site in Maoxian County, located at the junction of the upper reaches of Min and Fu Rivers, is an important node on the channels of culture transmission between North and South China. From 2014 to 2015, Neolithic remains and stone-constructed tombs were excavated. The Neolithic remains include pottery, stone and bone artifacts, leather objects, animal bones, plant seeds, house remains, tombs, and ash pits. Although there no painted pottery occurred at Xiaguanzi, the pottery found here...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Kaner.

This is an abstract from the "Current Issues in Japanese Archaeology (2019 Archaeological Research in Asia Symposium)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses the significance of the archaeology of the Shinano and Chikuma River system, the longest drainage in Japan, an area of very high environmental activity, situated on the Fossa Magna. The paper focuses on the Jomon period, when the region had the highest density of early ceramic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xue Ling. Zhouyong Sun. Liang Chen.

This is an abstract from the "From Tangible Things to Intangible Ideas: The Context of Pan-Eurasian Exchange of Crops and Objects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The sites of ZhaiTouHe and ShiJiaHe are two neatly arranged cemeteries with complicated features. The cemeteries were both discovered in Huangling county, Shaanxi Province, are the first complete Rong people’s tombs found in northern Shaanxi, and are closely related to the Wei’s culture....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Youngbae Ji.

This is an abstract from the "New Thoughts on Current Research in East Asian Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analysis was conducted on 88 tombs on the southern coast of the Korean. Human remains in these tombs have traces of malnutrition and repetitive work. The burials have a small numbers of burial goods but show differences in the number of grave artifacts. I grouped the number of burial artifacts and tomb construction behavior into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marjorie Burge.

This is an abstract from the "Current Issues in Japanese Archaeology (2019 Archaeological Research in Asia Symposium)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Traditional understandings of the history of writing in Japan have been both greatly enriched and substantially challenged by materials recovered from archaeological excavations. In particular, the continued recovery from archaeological contexts of the inscribed wooden documents known as mokkan has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shanshan Wei.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on Early Chinese Borderland Cultures and Archaeological Materials" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The flexed burial is a distinct burial style that has prevailed in various regions of China since ancient time. Scholarly interest in flexed burials in the Central Lake region (Lake Dian and adjacent lands) of Yunnan began after discovery of a grave in 1955 during the excavation of the ancient necropolis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Minmin Ma. Lele Ren. Xin Li.

We analyzed the baseline for dietary study through stable isotopes in the Gan-Qing (Gansu and Qinghai provinces) region in prehistory. Total 283 animal samples from 4 sites were collected and analyzed. We found that herbivorous δ15N values did not change much in the Hehuang region between 3200 BCE and 2000 BCE, indicating that the range of nitrogen isotopic baseline was relatively stable in different time. The range of herbivorous δ15N values from the Hehuang region around the 2000 BCE is from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kazuaki Yoshimura.

This is an abstract from the "Current Issues in Japanese Archaeology (2019 Archaeological Research in Asia Symposium)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Possessing complex three-dimensional structures, and created using the most advanced technologies, including technologies introduced from the Korean Peninsula, the armor of the Kofun Period in Japan represents the finest iron technology of that period. It is commonly accepted that armor was produced...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chao Zhao. Qingchuan Bao. Xiaonong Hu.

This is an abstract from the "New Thoughts on Current Research in East Asian Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mongolia steppe is widely thought as a marginal zone for agriculture, yet the recent excavations of two inhabit sites and a survey with more than 1000m2 in Ulanqab, central Inner Mongolia have found evidences that people made efforts to do food production during Neolithic period. By studying site structures and the form,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xin Yu. Hailin Liu. Chunxue Wang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Da'an Dongshantou is a fine stone cultural site in the Neolithic period. A large number of animal skeletons were found in site G1, totaling 2,456, including mollusks, fish, birds, and mammals. Statistics and analysis of the individual and population of the animal skeletons unearthed from site G1 provide clues for restoring the ecological environment of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hailin Liu. Xin Yu. Chunxue Wang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jirentaigoukou site in Nileke, Xinjiang is an important Bronze Age site in the Ili River area of Xinjiang. From 2015 to 2016, the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated the Jirentaigoukou site and cemetery in Nileke County. A total of more than 1,000 animal skeletons were unearthed in the two excavation years, all of which were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chong Yu.

This research is based on all published zooarchaeological study on Chinese Neolithic and Early Neolithic sites and mainly focuses on the animal subsistence economy in the same period. With the advent of quantitative analysis, refined models can now be built and analyzed from all the published data. The application of big data studies on animal remains provided information of range and relative importance of taxa and their possible change through time-scale and region which may reflect an ancient...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Geun Tae Park. Chang Hwa Kang. Jae Won Ko.

This is an abstract from the "New Evidence, Methods, Theories, and Challenges to Understanding Prehistoric Economies in Korea" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The subsistence economy of the Neolithic Period in Korea mainly consisted of hunting, fishing, gathering, and farming. However, there are also regional and chronological variations, which can be understood through the detailed study of lithic and bone tools and the analysis of archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tongli Qu.

The paper presents the taphonomic and zooarchaeological analyses of the fauna from the Laonainaimiao site of Late Pleistocene in the central plain area of China. The taphonomy observation shows that the bones were accumulated by human activity. The taxa of the fossil assemblage is composed mainly of Equidae and Bos primigenius, followed by gazelle, deer, wild boar, rhinoceros etc. Most carcasses of Equidae and Bos were likely to be transported to the site as a whole. The carcasses were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Hrivnyak. Jacqueline Eng. Erdene Myagmar.

This is an abstract from the "Steppe by Steppe: Advances in the Archaeology of Eastern Eurasia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within the vast Eurasian steppes, early populations utilized subsistence strategies that were uniquely developed in response to local environmental settings, and recent bioarchaeological work has underscored this connection. This study explores the relationship between dietary intake and dental pathology, focusing on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seungki Kwak.

This is an abstract from the "New Evidence, Methods, Theories, and Challenges to Understanding Prehistoric Economies in Korea" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the main topics of Korean archaeology is understanding of prehistoric subsistence throughout the Neolithic. However, due to the high acidity of sediments that do not favor long-term preservation of organic remains, we still lack critical information related to the subsistence of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dewei Shen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research on ancient city sites in Chinese archaeology tends to focus on remains within the city walls, while paying limited attention to the city periphery as a distinct and research-worthy spatial unit. The present paper challenges this prevailing approach by investigating the southern suburban area of the Chu capital in South China. It explores the...