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)