Asia: East Asia (Geographic Keyword)
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To understand the evolution of agricultural economy in south Tibet, a large number of flotation samples and phytolith samples were collected during 2015-2017 field seasons at Bangga site. Preliminary analysis on these samples shows clues to the subsistence strategy, the nature of the site （pastoral or agropastoral）and probably the seasonality of the occupation of the site. Comparison with Changguogou site which is earlier in time indicates changes in subsistence strategy over time in this...
Preliminary Exploration of Provenance of Stones and Strategy of Using Stones in Panlongcheng Site during Shang 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. The production of stone tools is a systematic human activity, and the utilization of stone materials is the basis of the entire production. Before conducting research on the entire stone production, we should observe the provenance of stones and the strategy of using these materials. Through the analysis of the lithic facies of...
Preliminary Faunal Analysis of Yishengci, Nanyang, Henan Province (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Populations of Early Medieval China: Developing Anthropological Approaches to Historical Archaeology in China" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Yishengci is located in the southeastern corner of the ancient Wancheng city (Nanyang, Henan Province), which is at present one of the most important urban sites of the Han dynasty (ca. 202 BC–AD 9). In spring and summer 2021 four trash pits were excavated, uncovering, among...
A Preliminary Report of the 2021 Excavation at the Taiziling Locality in Jizhou County, Tianjin City (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Taiziling locality, buried in the second terrace near the Prince Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty is located in the Sungezhuang village, Jizhou County, Tianjin City, which was discovered in 2005 and excavated in October 2021, covering an area of 50m2. In this excavation, over 100 artifacts were unearthed. The lithic assemblage includes cores, flakes,...
A Primary Study of Ceramic Technology at the Shimao Site (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Technology and Design in 4th and 3rd Millennium BCE China" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Shimao site was a significant stone-walled settlement in Northern China dating to around 2000 BCE. In recent excavations, vast amounts of pottery sherds were unearthed from Huangchengtai, the stone-walled platform which was encircled by both the interior and exterior stone walls. Around 200 pottery sherds were examined by...
A Probabilistic Approach to Constructing Networks in the Kuril Islands (2018)
One of the persisting challenges in archaeological network analysis is how to incorporate both temporal and spatial information into network models generated from the archaeological record. This paper tackles this issue by introducing a protocol that places probabilistic weights on potential network connections between archaeological sites, combining time-varying probabilities quantifying contemporaneous site occupation and space-dependent probabilities based on geographic distance. The...
Probable Pathological Evidence of Adult Scurvy, Dating Back to about 200 B.C. in Yuci, Shanxi, China (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scurvy is a disease resulting from inadequate intake of vitamin C. This can happen to all age groups but has a relatively high prevalence in children and subadults. Subadult scurvy has been studied thoroughly over the past decades; however, little research has been done on adult scurvy. This is because scurvy presents ambiguously in adults; in addition, scurvy...
Publication Trends in Research on Human Environment Interactions in Early China (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing move toward the use of archaeometric analyses to gain deeper insights into past human realities. In China, this can be seen most prominently in the growing body of research on ancient human-environment interaction by both archaeologists and paleoclimatologists. While interdisciplinary work is crucial...
Raw Material Procurement and Production Technologies of Turquoise and Nephrite Jade in Prehistoric China (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Two Approaches to Archaeological Jades: Source Characterization and Social Valuation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As gold is for the West, jade has been one of the finest symbolic vehicles in the East since prehistory. In recent years, a large amount of nephrite accessories have been excavated from early Neolithic-Bronze Age archaeological sites in Northeast China, Cis-Baikal, and the Russian Far East, posing...
Recent Research on the Settlement Sites of the Dian Culture of Yunnan: excavations at Xueshan and Shangxihe Sites (2019)
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 Dian culture of Yunnan is known for production and use of bronze artifacts exhibiting remarkable artistic and technical features. However, for most of the 20th century our understanding of Dian culture was based mainly on materials from burials around Lake Dian. Meanwhile, little was known about the...
Reconsideration of the Relationship between Complex Societies and Dolmen in Northern Part of Korea and Manchuria (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dolmen is one of the principal mortuary programs in the Korean Bronze Age (ca. between 1000 and 300 B. C.). A number of dolmens have been discovered almost everywhere in the Korean peninsula as well as Manchuria, China. A great amount of research has been conducted by Korean and Japanese archaeologists concerning this style of burial. Some scholars became...
Reconstructing Ironworking on the Fifth- and Sixth-Century Osaka Plain (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavated sporadically for over 30 years, Ogata in Kashiwara City and Mori in Katano City are the largest-scale Kofun period ironworking sites in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Large numbers of forging slags have been unearthed from both sites, which alongside partially preserved hearth features, provide the bulk of evidence for ironworking. Following methods...
Reconstruction of pyrotechnology connected with the earliest pottery. Micromorphology and -FTIR at Xianrendong and Yuchanyan, South China. (2018)
The sites of Xianrendong (Jiangxi) and Yuchanyan (Hunan), China, contain the earliest pottery yet discovered, dating respectively 20,000 cal BP and 18,600 cal BP. This pottery is found in otherwise Late Paleolithic, hunter-gatherer contexts. To understand human activities at these caves we employed micromorphology and -FTIR on the sediments. Here we present the results of analysis of the layers containing combustion episodes, which suggest low heating temperatures at both sites. and infer...
Regional Circulation and Production of Bronze Mirrors in Han Dynasty: Focusing on Guanzhong and Jingzhou Area (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The previous study of Han bronze mirrors was mainly concerned with the diachronic change, such as the overall development in typology and the main component formula. Although there is only one Han bronze mirrors workshop found in North China at present, the regional diversity still deserves further investigation. This paper first presents a comprehensive...
Regional Sociopolitical Transformations among Complex Hunter-Gatherers: A Macroregional Approach to the Late Jomon of Central Hokkaido (2018)
This paper presents a new perspective on the study of the emergence of shuteibo (a type of communal cemetery enclosed by a circular embankment constructed during the Late Jomon) by employing a macroregional approach combining several analytical dimensions: 1) settlement pattern, 2) site scale, 3) household, 4) burials, and 4) interaction. This approach is crucial to understanding the sociopolitical evolution of community organization and status variability involved in the emergence of the...
Regionalization of Chinese Buddhist Carving in the Fifth through Seventh Centuries: Localization of Practice in the Place and Face of the Buddha (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Populations of Early Medieval China: Developing Anthropological Approaches to Historical Archaeology in China" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the course of the last two decades there have been a number of hoards of Buddhist statues excavated in Northern China. Each of these hoards contains several hundred statues of varying forms and quality. This study examines both the form and the tool marks on the statues to...
The Renewal of Remembrance and Political Order: an Example from the Late Shang, China (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The role played by the remembrance of certain events and/or individuals in the reproduction of social order and power relations has been investigated from various social archaeological perspectives. One of the important issues emerging out of this developing research area is how a specific mode of such remembrance is related to a specific mode of social/power...
Research on Materials and Manufacturing Process Used for the Imperial Inlaid Jade Lacquered Wooden Coffin from the Royal Mausoleum No.2 of the Vassal King of Jiangdu State of the Western Han Dynasty in China (2018)
The paper focuses on the characterization of material from fragmented pieces of the imperial lacquered wooden coffin excavated in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province，whose owner was the empress of Jiangdu State in Western Han Dynasty. The samples were analyzed by scientific techniques including optical and electron microscopy, XRD, FT-IR and GS-MS. The laquer film outside consists of a seven-layer structure, which includes (from the top): a red pigmented layer, two laquer finish layers, three ground...
Resilient Herders: Continuity and Change in Pastoral Household Life in Mongolia (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Empirical Approaches to Mobile Pastoralist Households" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding how human societies interacted with environmental changes is a major goal of anthropological archaeology. In this paper, we assess human-environment interactions at the household level in three regions of Mongolia during the Bronze and Iron Ages. We review shifting environmental conditions and the continuities and...
Resource, Transportation and the Political Landscape of the Chinese Bronze Age (2018)
The political landscape of the Chinese Bronze Age was characterized by controlling the key resource situated in the distant regions from the Luoyang Basin. The study of key natural resources and their transportation networks should therefore be an important facet of research into state formation during the Chinese Bronze Age. The extraction and transportation of key resource, and its relationship with the cultural landscape addresses the basic political framework of the states in Early China....
Rethinking the Variability of Cobble-Tool Industry in South China and Southeast Asia during Late Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (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. The lithic industry of South China has been characterized as simple "cobble-tool" industry persisting from early Pleistocene to Holocene and the most representative industry of Southeast Asia was also marked by pebble-tool techno-complex termed Hoabinhian during late Pleistocene-early Holocene. The possible cultural link of the...
The Rock Art of Bangudae in Southern Korea: Focused on the Problems of Whale Hunting (2018)
Many aquatic animals, such as whales, sea lions and turtles, and terrestrial animals, such as tigers, wild cats, deer, boars, and weasels, were identified on the rock art of Bangudae, located in the southeastern part of Korean peninsula. Scenes of human figures, whale hunting, boats, and net and fence hunting are also present. Some western archaeologists are suspicious about whale hunting conducted by prehistoric Korean people. They argue that there are not clear depictions at Bangudae of the...
Roots and Tubers in Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene China: Experimental Paleoethnobotany and Preliminary Case Studies (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Frontiers of Plant Domestication" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent advances in paleoethnobotanical research reveal that plants have been critical to the human diet for longer and in more diverse ways than previously assumed. This paper addresses the relative dearth of paleoethnobotanical information on the early uses of vegetatively propagated plants in China, despite their significant representation in modern...
Salutary Failures: Bronze Age Metallurgists in China and Their Faulty Seams (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Crafting Culture: Thingselves, Contexts, Meanings" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Creativity and imagination are subjects which do not often appear in the archaeology of craft. Though archaeologists study innovation in relation to a craft’s technological developments and discoveries, we approach such novelties as progress bound rather than creative pursuits. Craft workers are, after all, toiling for other people in...
Scientific Analysis of Metals from the Yinsuodao Site, Yunnan Province (2019)
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. Up to now, the Yinsuodao site is one of the earliest Bronze Age sites known in Yunnan Province. This work will present the results of metallographic and lead isotope analyses of a number of metals discovered at this site. The metallographic studies suggest that the metal technology at Yinsuodao represents...