Union of Myanmar (Country) (Geographic Keyword)
651-675 (729 Records)
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...
Subsistence Strategy, Pottery Use, and the Role of Animal Hunting on the Neolithic Korean Peninsula (2019)
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...
Suburban Space Transformed: Investigating Chu Capital’s Southern Suburbs before and after Conquests (2024)
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...
Supernatural Gamekeepers among the Ainu and Their Possible Parallels (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Supernatural gamekeepers of the Ainu appear in yukar divine songs. Mainly as master of deer (yuk kor kamuy) or master of salmon (cep kor kamuy), they have controlled the main suppliers of animal protein. On the one hand, they were believed to keep the animals in a storehouse or a bag, or to multiply them from...
Sustainability and Tradition in Anindo Village, Okinawa, Japan (2018)
A recent collaborative effort by Japanese and American archaeologists and environmental scientists identified and examined the historic (ca. 1897-late 1950s) Anindo Village. Located within the stream valleys and mountainous uplands of the Kanna Watershed in central Okinawa, Japan, Anindo Village was a short-lived reclaimed land settlement dependent on both agricultural and forestry-based economic practices. This paper examines the distribution of archaeological sites and the natural and cultural...
Sustained Farming in the Nam River Valley, South-central Korea, through the Mumun/Bronze to early historical periods (2019)
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. This research examines agricultural management, particularly raised field farming from the Mumun/Bronze to early historical periods (3400–1600 cal. BP) along the Nam River in south-central Korea. The study of settlements on alluvial flatlands provides crucial information on early agricultural...
A Symbiotic Relationship between People, Plants, and Microbes: A Case Study on the Fermented Beverages from the Chahekou Site in North China during the Middle Neolithic Period (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Drinking Beer in a Blissful Mood: A Global Archaeology of Beer" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The making of fermented beverages is a complex process through the interaction among people, plants, and microorganisms, among other abiotic factors. In this process, microbes, as the primary catalyst, get all the agents gradually entangled in the fermentation process. During the middle Neolithic, there was an evident...
Taming the Flood: Religious Response to Climatic Crisis and the Cult of the Great Yu in Early China (2017)
This paper deals with changes in religious practices during a period when 'Nature' is least stable in early China. It focuses on the rapid spread of new ritual practices and emergence of new ritual networks during the Longshan period (ca. 2300-1800 BCE) as evidence for religious responses to the extraordinary climatic crisis of the late third millennium BCE. It explores the diverse manifestations of the ecological crisis in geomorphological evidence and their implications for a changing...
Tamsagbulag: New Center of Cattle Domestication in East Asia? (2021)
This is an abstract from the "New Directions in Mongolian Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tamsagbulag, in the far eastern steppe, is the only known example of high-density site occupation in Mongolia that predates the Iron Age. Based on the frequency and treatment of cattle remains, mid-twentieth-century excavators interpreted Tamsagbulag as an agropastoralist community. New excavations in 2018 revealed several hundred years of...
The Tangled Roots of the Anthropocene: China from the Late Neolithic to the Song Dynasty (2018)
The Anthropocene is now commonly defined as a geological event, or "golden spike" that begins in the later twentieth century with the detonation of nuclear weapons. While this event-based characterization serves a useful purpose in providing a formal geological definition, it tells us nothing of how humans developed the social, economic, technological, and moral capacities that allow us to affect natural processes at a global scale. Using archaeological and environmental data from China between...
Techno-Morphological Approach to the Stoneware Production in Angkor (2018)
This paper will discuss several aspects of premodern stoneware industry in Cambodia. Based on the results of resent excavation of the stoneware kilns in Angkor area, traits of the kiln structure, fuel strategy, forming techniques, glazing, and loading method of the Khmer stoneware will be discussed.
Technological Transmission between Different Levels of Specialization in Proto-historic NE Asia (2019)
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 Proto-historic period (300 B.C. - A.D. 300) in Northeast Asia was a critical time when technological innovations and the fundamental changes of craft-specialization in the ceramic production occurred. From the early 3rd century B.C., ancient Chinese states of Yan, Qin, and Han expanded...
The Technology of Metallurgy and Evolving Views of Its Development in Prehistoric Thailand (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Paradigms Shift: New Interpretations in Mainland Southeast Asian Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the archaeology of prehistoric Thailand, the sub-field of archaeometallurgy has undergone numerous changes in established perceptions, both anthropologically and technologically. This paper introduces the Symposium and overviews recent shifts that characterize how metallurgy in Thailand has come to be...
The Temples of the Classical Kingdom of Bagan, Myanmar: The Bundling of Royalty, Religion, and People (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bagan was Myanmar’s political, economic, and cultural centre during the country’s Classical period (c. 800-1400 CE). Encompassing an area of 80 kilometers square, this landscape was home to approximately 4,000 brick monuments. These monuments were the result of the Buddhist pursuit of merit-making, the idea that...
Temporal Changes in Obsidian Procurement Strategy during the Upper Paleolithic on Hokkaido (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Advances in Obsidian Studies of the Old and New Worlds" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Reconstruction of obsidian procurement strategies based on systematic obsidian sourcing analysis in the Upper Paleolithic on Hokkaido will provides an important basis for examining several key issues of human evolutionary history, including how modern humans adapted to the cold, harsh environment of the north, and how these...
Test Excavation of the 17th Century Provintia, a Dutch Fort in the Southwest Taiwan (2017)
In the 17th century, Taiwan was considered as an outpost for the Dutch East Indies Company to trade with China and Japan, and to compete with its European counterparts in the region. Located in the contemporary Tainan City, Taiwan, Provintia stood as the Island’s first planned city by the Dutch in AD 1625, the second year when they traded the city land with 15 cangan cloth from the indigenous Siraya. In AD 1653, a fort, called Fort Provintia was constructed as a result of Han Chinese rebels...
Theravada Buddhist Monastic Activity at Angkor: A Discussion of What, Where, and When (2021)
This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The religious transition of the Khmer Empire (ca. 802–1431 CE) from Saivaite and/or Mahayana Buddhism to the religion known today as “Theravada Buddhism” is thought today to be one of the defining social phenomena of the late Angkorian period (ca. fourteenth to fifteenth centuries) in medieval Cambodia. However, despite...
A Thin Section Petrographic Study of Early to Late Shangshan Ceramics from Zhejiang, China (2017)
Ceramics from the early Holocene Shangshan Culture, in Zhejiang Province, China, have been subjected to thin section petrographic analysis in order to characterize clay groups, view production patterns, and aid in the development of a complete understanding of the Shangshan technological tradition. Analysis has revealed a pattern in the local production of ceramic vessels likely related to the transformations in cooking methods and dietary patterns that coincided with new evidence for the...
Three Cities in the Heartland of the Khitan Liao Empire (2017)
A wide range of Medieval settlement has been identified in the watershed of the Shar mörön river, a territory of grassland and narrow river valleys in the heartland of the nomadic Khitan and their Liao state (907-1125 CE). These settlements range from village landscapes to imperial capitals. This paper will introduce three urban settings of the Liao state: (1) A mercantile center, (2) a local administrative hub, and (3) an imperial capital city along with their immediate hinterlands. Through a...
The Three Settlement Patterns of the Southern Korean Peninsula in the Proto-Three Kingdoms Period (2019)
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. Settlement sites have been regarded as important data reflecting social and political complexities and organization. Consequently, settlement archaeology of the Proto-Three Kingdoms period in the Southern Korean peninsula has focused on the typological classification of settlements according to a typical hierarchical model to...
Tianshanbeilu and the Isotopic Millet Road: Reviewing the Late Neolithic/Bronze Age Radiation of Human Millet Consumption from North China to Europe (2017)
The westward expansion of human millet consumption from north China has important implications for understanding early interactions between the East and West. However, few studies have focused on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the vast geographical area directly linking the ancient cultures of the Eurasian Steppe and the Gansu Corridor of China. Here a Bronze Age isotopic study in China is presented about the key site of Tianshanbeilu, in eastern Xinjiang. The vast range of stable carbon...
Tibetan Mani Stones and the Materiality of Text (2018)
Mani stones are large stone slabs with Buddhist prayers carved into their surface. In many parts of Tibet, Buddhist pilgrims carry these heavy stones during pilgrimage as an act of devotion. Pilgrims subsequently dry stack Mani stones into large structures including temples, walls and piles outside major religious intuitions. These structures lay, both literally and figuratively, outside of monastic control. In this paper I examine the varied ways Buddhist pilgrims use Mani stones, materialized...
Timing of Stress Episodes at Houtaomuga: Neolithic and Bronze Age Comparisons (2017)
The unworn and minimally worn anterior teeth of 48 individuals from Neolithic and Bronze Age levels of the Houtaomuga site in Jinlin Province, China were examined macro- and microscopically for location on the labial surface of lines of Enamel Hypoplasia relative to the cementoenamel junction. From estimated ages of enamel formation across the tooth crown surface, ages of occurrence of stress exposure were calculated. Variation in timing of growth cessation and recovery from birth to 6 years, as...
To build a ship: the VOC replica ship Duyfken (2001)
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Toward standardization of lithic use-wear identification in conjunction with technological organization and raw material variability (2017)
The paper examines theoretical problems concerning characteristics of lithic micro-wear traces in the Paleolithic. Use-wear studies already experienced 40 years of research since the discovery of micro-polish varieties which reflect worked materials with wide applications to site structure analysis. However, global standardization of identification criteria still needs comparative efforts, especially on raw material variability and behavioral diversity among regional settlement and subsistence...