Populations of Early Medieval China: Developing Anthropological Approaches to Historical Archaeology in China
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Populations of Early Medieval China: Developing Anthropological Approaches to Historical Archaeology in China" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The archaeology of China has been both helped and hindered by the presence of historical records that stretch back in an “unbroken” continuity of scholarship for over 2,000 years. This means that Chinese archaeology in the historical period has a strong tendency to exist within the strictures of recorded history. The papers in this session use techniques such as archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, urban archaeology, and landscape archaeology to study the traces of the vast majority of the population of historical China who are absent from the official recorded histories.
Other Keywords
Historic •
Mortuary Analysis •
Zooarchaeology •
Survey •
Paleoethnobotany •
Urban Archaeology •
Urbanism •
Landscape Archaeology •
Mortuary archaeology •
Iconography and epigraphy
Geographic Keywords
Kyrgyz Republic (Country) •
Asia (Continent) •
Japan (Country) •
Mongolia (Country) •
Republic of India (Country) •
People's Republic of Bangladesh (Country) •
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Country) •
Union of Myanmar (Country) •
People's Republic of China (Country) •
Republic of Korea (Country)
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Agricultural Practices of the Qin People from the Warring States Period to the Qin Dynasty: A Case from the Matengkong Site in Guanzhong Basin, China (2023)
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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. In archaeological studies, the Qin people have often been the subject of research. The areas of investigation about the Qin include their origin, structure of tombs, funeral rites and interment processes, and cities and settlements. Although there are some studies on the Qin...
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Preliminary Faunal Analysis of Yishengci, Nanyang, Henan Province (2023)
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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...
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Regionalization of Chinese Buddhist Carving in the Fifth through Seventh Centuries: Localization of Practice in the Place and Face of the Buddha (2023)
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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...
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Review on Archaeological Studies of Sogdian Tombs in China (2023)
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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. This presentation will examine Chinese scholars’ archaeological studies toward sinicized Sogdian tombs and relevant discoveries in China during the past 20 years and try to seek its logic, in the meantime, and also its disadvantage and possible breakthrough in the future.
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Searching for Cities: Problems and Solution in Tracing Han Dynasty Settlements in Nanyang and Ankang, China (2023)
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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. This paper presents the results of technology assisted ceramic surveys, interviews, and GIS analysis undertaken in the Nanyang Basin during the summer of 2022. The Nanyang Basin has been the site of continuous human occupation for at least 5,000 years. While prehistoric sites...