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President: Prof. Gina L. Barnes, East Asian Studies, Univ of Durham, Durham DH1 3TH, England. Fax +44-191-374-3242; email: [...]
Vice President: Prof. Sarah Nelson, Dept. of Anthropology, Uni. of Denver, 2130 South Race, Denver, CO 80208, USA. FAX: 303-871-2437; E-mail: [...]
Secretary: Dr. Yangjin PAK, Dept of Archaeology, Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea
Treasurer: Mr. Simon Kaner, Dept of Archaeology, Univ of Cambridge, Downing St., Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England; e-mail: [...]

Korea Treasurer: Dr. Insook LEE, #204-33 Kaenari Apt., Yeoksamdong, Kangnam-ku, Seoul 135-082 Korea. Tel/Fax +82-2-553-8027
Japan Treasurer: Dr. Kojiro MIZOGUCHI, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, 4-2-1 Ropponmatsu, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810 Japan. Fax +81-92-731-8745, e-mail: [...]
China Treasurer: Ms. Jianjun YANG, c/o Liaoning Provincial Archaeological Research Institute, Liaoning Provincial Museum, Shenyang, Liaoning, China. Fax +86-24-282-5842

Korea Representative: Dr. Insook LEE (see above)
Japan Representative: Prof. Hideo KONDO, Dept History, Faculty of Letters, Tokai Univ, Kitakaname 1117, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan. Tel. +81-463-58-1211x303, Fax +81-463-83-8198
China Representative: Dr. WANG Tao, Art & Archaeology Dep., SOAS, Univ of London, Thornhaugh St., London WC1H 0XG, England. Tel. +44-171-637-6192, Fax +44-171-436-3844
European Representative: Dr. Mark Hudson, Dept of Archaeology, Faculty of Letters, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima, Okayama 700 Japan. Fax +81-86-255-9903
North American Representative: Dr. James Grayson, Centre for Korean Studies, Sheffield University, Sheffield S10 2UJ, England. Tel. +44-114-282-4390, Fax +44-114-272-9479

Journal Editor: Prof. Lothar von Falkenhausen, Art History Dept, Dixon Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1417, USA. Fax +1-310-359-1689, e-mail: [...]
EAANnouncements Editor: Prof. Gina L. Barnes (see above)
China Round-up Editor: Dr. Francis Allard, Dept of Anthropology, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA. Fax 412-648-7535, e-mail: [...]
Japan Round-up Editor: Dr. Mark Hudson (see above)
Book Reviews Editor: Mr. Simon Kaner (see above)

AAS Liaison (Association for Asian Studies) Prof. Kathy Linduff, Department of Fine Arts, 128 Frick Fine Arts Bldg., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. Fax +1-412-648-2792, e-mail: [...]
SAA Liaison (Society for American Archaeology) Dr. Francis Allard (see above)
IPPA Liaison (Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association) Mr. Magnus Fiskesjö, Institute of Anthropology, Unnan Univ, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 65001 PRChina. Fax +86-871-516-5031. [in China for PhD fieldwork during the academic year of 1996-97]
TAG Liaison (Theoretical Archaeology Group) Dr. Anthony Sinclair, Archaeological Sciences, William Hartley Bldg (North), Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK. Fax 151-794-5057; email: [...]

 

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From the editor......

Spring has sprung, and we have weathered a very trying period here in the EAANnouncements editorial office. The 1997 issues were put together by the very capable Theresa McGill, acting as CREAA Secretary. We thought we had found the ideal production editor for the newsletter when she decided to make a career change into web marketing. The good news is that she has agreed to create a web site for SEAA, which is due to come on line sometime in May-June. Watch for it via the Durham East Asian Studies page where it will be initially linked: http://www.dur.ac.uk/EastAsianStudies. Once it is up and running, your comments on modification would be very much appreciated. The next newsletter (July) will have full details of its configuration.

The new CREAA Secretary and EAANnouncements production editor is Ms. Ilona Bausch, who is studying for a PhD in Jomon Archaeology at Durham. Ilona was an Erasmus (European Exchange Students) at Cambridge in 1992/3, took her MA at Leiden University in 1994, and then won a Mombusho scholarship to study under Prof. KOBAYASHI Tatsuo at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo. We look forward to having another stable and constant companion in preparing the newsletter, of which this issue is her first, for your use.

SEAA received a very nice Christmas card from Prof. Dr. Werner Pascha (EAJS Treasurer) and Anja Radegast (EAJS Council Assistant) of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Duisburg, Germany, with which SEAA is associated.

 

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FIELD & RESEARCH REPORTS:

For articles to appear in this section, they should be limited to 500-1000 words and submitted to the Editor by the issue deadlines stated on the front cover of EAANnouncements: mid-January for the Spring issue, mid-May for the Summer issue, and mid-September for the Autumn issue. The editor reserves the right to edit or decline to print. Please report research here!!
 

The Statistics of Japanese Archaeology
  by Charles T. Keally
Understanding a local or national archaeology is, in part, a matter of knowing and understanding the statistics of that archaeology. Japan's is an archaeology of many very large statistics and few small ones. In 1996, there were 11,738 large and small emergency (contract, rescue) excavations in Japan, plus an additional 11,030 construction projects that were monitored by archaeologists; 12,344 construction projects that were assessed for archaeological impact; and enough other archaeological site work to bring the total archaeology-related field projects to 41,880 in that one year.1 Only 325 of these were research excavations.
The cost to the contractors of all this work was ¥124,694,238,000; prefectural Tokyo's budget alone was ¥14.3 billion. There were 6,126 specialists employed full-time in Japanese archaeology in 1996, plus 20,000-50,000 field workers, or perhaps considerably more, for no one really knows how large the field army is.
Site densities are equally staggering numbers. Japan covers roughly 378,000 km2 and has 370,000 registered archaeological sites.2 Prefectural Tokyo covers about 2,200 km2 and has 5,386 registered sites. Two-thirds of Japan is mountains; one-third of Tokyo is mountains. The Tama New Town (TNT) bed town in the hills in southwestern Tokyo covers about 30 km2 and has 953 sites. My research focuses on four cities along a river bluff on the edge of the plain in western Tokyo; these cities cover 60 km2 and have 109 sites at last count. Misawa city on the Sambongi Plain in northern Japan, another focus of my research, covers about 120 km2 and has 117 sites.
Single excavation projects also often present daunting figures. The famous Sannai Maruyama excavation project is extreme, but it thrives on the general trends. When I visited in 1994, I was told that the budget that year was around ¥800 million and that there were about 500 field workers and about 120 laboratory workers, all employed full-time. The excavation was in advance of the construction of a huge sports complex. In the end, a half-finished stadium was simply ripped out and the whole area turned into an archaeological park, where excavation continues and 500,000 visitors tread each year, as many as 7,000-10,000 on busy days. They have counted 1,386,000 visitors in the four years the site has been open to the public.3
The TNT suburb of Tokyo was 30 km2 of wooded hills, scattered small farms, and 38 archaeological sites in 1964 when the plans for the construction of this bed town were made public. Excavation started in 1966 and continues to this day, over 30 years later. The initial phase of the project produced about 20 reports, mostly rather thin, but since 1980 the project has published more than 43 thick volumes. In the late 1970s, a series of newspaper articles referred to the TNT project as the "Hundred Years War". This is a single, unified archaeological project.
So is the excavation of the Ancient-Period Musashi provincial capital in the city of Fuchu on the outskirts of Tokyo near TNT. This single site covers about 6 km2. Centrally organized archaeological work there began in 1975. Since then there have been 989 separate excavations, most quite small.4 But about 0.5 km2 of the site has been excavated and almost 15,000 features unearthed and recorded.
Across the river from Fuchu, on the edge of TNT, the Ancient-Period Ochikawa site was discovered in December 1977 as construction began on an apartment complex. Excavation of the threatened 27,000 m2 continued year round for the next 16 years, finishing in March 1993. Analysis and publication finished in March 1997. The entire site, now known as the Ochikawa-Ichinomiya site, sprawls over 750,000 m2 of Hino and Tama cities.
All this fieldwork, time and money result in a correspondingly large number of excavation reports-over 2,000 a year and nearly 25,000 in the past decade. The 20 years of fieldwork at the Ochikawa site produced 10 volumes of interim reports, with 2,279 pages and weighing 9 kg. The four cities I study in western Tokyo have produced about 50 excavation reports over the years. The Isarago Shellmound excavation in eastern Tokyo dug up roughly 660 m2 of the site; the excavation report has 915 pages, plus another 150 pages of plates and 12 large fold-out maps. The Utsukidai project in western Tokyo unearthed 164,300 m2 and produced 14 volumes with 3,915 pages of text and illustrations, 1,268 pages of plates and 64 large fold-out maps. I have already mentioned the publications for the TNT project.
Archaeology newsprint mirrors these statistics and helps to explain them. The magazine Gekkan Bunkazai Hakkutsu Shutsudo Joho (Monthly Archaeology Information) published by Japan Tsushin Joho Senta, Tokyo, is now into its 16th year republishing news articles clipped from the national and regional press. The 24 issues in 1996 and 1997 had a total of 2,729 pages of news articles on Japanese archaeology (plus abundant pages of news articles on archaeology around the world). This large quantity of news about archaeology reflects a very high public interest, which is what supports the large budgets and long delays in Japan.
Information on Japanese prehistory...? One frequently hears words like flood, deluge, tidal wave.

Department of Comparative Culture, Sophia University,
 4 Yonban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0081, Japan

footnotes:
1 Agency for Cultural Affairs statistics republished in Gekkan Bunkazai Hakkutsu Shutsudo Joho, November, 1997.
2 Agency for Cultural Affairs, pers. comm., 1998.
3 Aomori Prefecture Urban Park Construction Office, pers. comm., 1998.
4 Fuchu City Office, pers. comm., 1998.
 

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Slovenian expedition to the Middle Kingdom
  by Dimitrij Mlekuz
This excursion to China was organized by the Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Expeditions at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. The main goal of our expedition was to visit the most important Chinese Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites. We planned an extensive itinerary, covering sites in Shanxi and Sichuan provinces and those along the Yangtse River, but due to some organizational problems we had to shorten it. We stayed in the Middle Kingdom in August 1997 after all arrangements had been made.
Members of the expedition were mainly students of sociology, ethnology, archaeology and biology with Professor Iztok Saksida from the Department of Sociology and Professor Mihael Budja from the Department of Archaeology as the heads of the team. A professional photographer and camera-man accompanied us in order to provide quality visual material for presentations and lectures.
After our arrival in Beijing we needed some time to get over the culture shock and acclimatize. In the meantime we made some visits to classical tourist sights such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City....
We were looking forward to visit Zhoukoudian most, but it turned out to be an enormous socio-realistic complex with a dusty museum and large lecture halls. However, we enjoyed lectures on the Chinese Palaeolithic by Professors WU Xinxi, HUANG Weiwen and XU Qinqi, about the anatomy of Peking man and other human fossils from Zhoukoudian,and about site stratigraphy.
We crossed the Great Wall heading for Shanxi province. Our first stop was Nihewan, a huge complex of sites dated from the lower Palaeolithic to the Neolithic. Sites were discovered in sections of lacustrine sediments, exposed due to tectonic sinking of the palaeo-lake bottom and to erosion. We have had the opportunity to visit a series of Palaeolithic sites: Maliang, Donggunto, Xiaochangliang, Cenjiwan, Banshan, Majuangou. We visited an excavation on Putoayuan site conducted by Dr. Wei QI and Dr. Yamei HOU (Chinese Quaternary Research Association), containing what now seems to be the oldest stone tools yet found in China. We have also surveyed the biggest Neolithic Youfang site in the region. The hospitality of the excavation team and local people and the treks across the picturesque landscape made those days the highlight of our journey.
Travelling across Shanxi province, we were amused by the sight of a heavily industrialized landscape: roads full of trucks carefully laden with coal, smoke stacks above steel plants, small workers' dwellings... One would imagine that such scenes exist in Industrial Revolution textbooks only.
As we drove over the Sangane river basin to Datong, we stopped to visit the Houtouliang site that was just being excavated by Prof. HUANG Yunping. The site appears to be crucial for understanding the transition from the microlithic industry period to the Neolithic in northern China. It yielded the oldest pottery and domesticates in this part of China without an abrupt change in flint industry. For colleagues working on similar phenomena in Europe this was an excellent opportunity to exchange experience.
Slowly crossing the Shanxi province, we made occasional stops for sight seeing, our visit to the Buddhist caves being the most impressive one. The Paleolithic site Dingchun near the city of Linfen was our southernmost stop. We spent a day there, also visiting a museum dedicated to a site placed in the Ming dynasty village replica.
Coming back to Beijing we made a stop in Taiyuan where we paid a visit to the Shanxi province museum and the Shanxi Institute of Archaeology. We spent our last few days in Beijing at the University's Archaeological Department and its impressive museum; we also peeked into dating laboratories and visited the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology.
We got the impression that Chinese archaeology tended to be self-sufficient (as China itself), but that the younger generation is willing to open up. Our travel was therefore also a good opportunity to establish contacts, which will, hopefully, prove fruitful in years to come. Some arrangements had been made on the spot and fortunately, the head of the Archaeological Department, Prof. ZHAO Chaohong, together with Dr. Yamei HOU and Dr. CHEN Xingean will participate in the Neolithic seminar held in Ljubljana in May 1998.

Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana,
Askerceva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia e-mail: [...]

 

Note: The following bibliography accompanies "Spatial variations of plant remains from the Ezo-Haji period Sakushu-Kotoni River site, Hokkaido, Japan" by G.A. Lee, that was published in EAANnouncements 23:
  • Crawford, G.W. 1986. Sakushu-Kotoni River Site: the Ezo-Haji Component Plant Remains. In: Sakushu-Kotoni Gawa Iseki [The Sakushu-Kotoni River Site], ed. Hokkaido University. Sapporo: Hokkaido Daigaku Bungakubu.
  • Crawford, G.W., and Yoshizaki, M. 1987. Ainu ancestors and prehistoric Asian agriculture. Journal of Archaeological Science 14:201-13.
  • Watanabe, H. 1973. The Ainu Ecosystem. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

 

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JOBS & GRANTS

Grants Received

Korea Foundation
Chabanol, Elizabeth R. M. (PhD candidate, Korean Art History & Archaeology, Sorbonne Univ.): "Death in Korea during the Three Kingdoms Period, with an emphasis on Shilla tombs."
Callahan, William A. (Lecturer, Politics Department, Univ. of Durham): "Confucianism and Korean National Identity."

Nichibunken
Yasuda, Yoshinori (Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies): "East Asian Pollen Database", term: April 1995- March 1996;"The Origin and Development of Rice Cultivation", term: April 1995- March 1998.
 

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EXHIBITIONS & MUSEUM NEWS

This section may include overlaps with "Newsletter, EAAA" listings; for fuller information about art historical showings, subscribe to Newsletter, East Asian Art & Archaeology, Dept. Art History, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1357, USA.

BRITAIN
The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, SOAS, in London will be showing Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics from 11 November 1998 until 31 May 1999. The exhibition features ceramics from the 15th to the 20th century, made in Jingdezhen, Dehua and Yixing. From the 16th century onwards, ceramics from these kilns began to be inscribed with the marks of their owners: people from different social backgrounds, such as princes, state officials, scholars, merchants and artists. Much can be learned from these rare marks.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a hardback catalogue in both English and Chinese with 220 colour pictures, priced £39.95.

AUSTRIA
The Kunsthalle in Leoben will be showing China: Verborgene Schätze (Hidden Treasures) from 14 May until 19 November 1998. The exhibition will feature circa 120 precious grave goods found in Han-dynasty tombs at Xuzhou. One of the most spectacular pieces is a jade "suit" consisting of more than 2500 pieces. For more information, contact Prof. Dr. Günther Jontes at the Stadtmuseum Leoben, tel. 03842- 4062-317, or the Leoben Tourist Information, Peter Tunner Strasse 2, A-8700, Leoben, Austria, tel.: 03842-48148, e-mail: leoben@steirer-oberland.co.at. There is also a site on the internet: www.steirer-oberland.co.at.

TAIWAN, REPUBLIC OF CHINA
The National Palace Museum in Taipei is still showing A Special exhibition of circular jades (opened January 1995). Continuing indefinitely are: Artifacts from a Late Shang Dynasty royal romb and A special exhibition of Shang Dynasty bronze inscriptions. Permanent installations include: Bronze ritual vessels of the Shang and Chou dynasties; Oracle bones of the Late Shang dynasty; Pre-Han pottery; Pottery between the Han and Sung dynasties and Chinese Jades through the dynasties. For more information see http://www. npm.gov.tw.
 

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SOAS, London.
11 February 1998 "The Discovery and Rescue of the Oxus Treasure", by Dr. John Curtis (Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, The British Museum).
18 March 1998 "Assimilation and Diffusion: Artistic and Iconographic Development in the North-West and Kashmir during the Hephthalite Supremacy", by Dr. John Siudmak (Independant Researcher).
1 April 1998 "The Achievements of Eucratides the Great: the Numismatic Evidence", by Dr. David W. MacDowall (Chairman, Society for South Asian Studies, The British Academy).
21 April 1998 "Preliminary Remarks on Dulan rDzong" (lecture for CIAA members, followed by reception) by Dr. Amy Heller (CNRS, France);
23 April 1998 "International Trade Routes of Tibet 8th-12th Centuries" (seminar for CIAA members) by Dr. Amy Heller.
20 May 1998 "Early Copper and Bronze Finds in Xinjiang, China: A Technological Study", by MEI Jianjun (The Needham Institute, Cambridge).
10 June 1998 "The Otani Collection in Seoul", by Dr. Youngsook PAK (Department of Art & Archaeology, SOAS, London).

UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver,
 "Early China: Some recent finds and Findings in Chinese Archaeology: a lecture series":
7 April 1998 "Hong Kong Neolithic and its Relationship to the Rest of China" by LI Guo (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, UBC).
21 April 1998 "The Chinese Neolithic" by Dr. Richard Pearson (Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, UBC).
5 May 1998 "Sage Kings and their Legendary Regimes in Pre-dynastic China: the Use of Textual Material in Archaeological Interpretation" by LI Min (MA candidate, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, UBC).
 

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NOTEWORTHIES

Notes in the current issue are referred to as NOTEWORTHIES No. 00, while those in a previous issue will be referred to as NOTEWORTHIES 00-00, with the issue number before the dash and the note number after the dash.

 

  1. TWO MORE KOREAN SITES PLACED ON WORLD HERITAGE LIST
    Two Choson Dynasty architectural landmarks, the Changdokkung Palace in Seoul and the Hwasong Fortress in Suwon, were recorded into the World Heritage List compiled by Unesco, the Ministry of Culture and Sports said last week. The Changdokkung Palace was regarded as an outstanding example of Far Eastern palace architecture and garden design, while the Hwasong Fortress in Suwon, south of Seoul, was commended as an outstanding example of early modern military architecture. The addition of the two sites brings the total number of Korean cultural treasures on the World Heritage Listing to five: in 1995, the 8th-century artificial grotto of Sokkuram, the Pulguk Temple in Kyongju, North Kyongsang Province; the 13th-century Buddhist scripture Tripitaka Koreana and its storage house at Haein Temple in Hapchon, South Kyongsang Province; and the 14th-century royal shrine of Chongmyo from the Choson Dynasty, were included in the List.
     
  2. AGREEMENT ON A MUTUAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM
    The National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Korea and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnnography of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Science of Russia agree on an equally reciprocal exchange program of scholars and scientific information. The purpose of the exchange program is to take part in the archaeological, anthropological, ethnographical, geological and architectural field works and related laboratory research activities in both countries; to take part in conservation and restoration of cultural properties in both countries; to exchange scientific information and related materials in the former points. The participants will be staff members of both institutions and scholars recommended by either of them; the number of participants and period of stay will be decided upon mutual agreement, on a case by case basis, but four to six weeks is regarded as desirable. Apart from the air fares, all expenses of the visiting scholars will be covered by the inviting institute. This agreement will go into effect upon the conclusion of the Cultural and Scientific Exchange Treaty between the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation.
     
  3. TURTLE ATLAS
    Turtle bones are among the most frequently misidentified bones from faunal assemblages, making A Turtle Atlas to Facilitate Archaeological Identifications, by Kristin D. Sobolik and D. Gentry Steele, the first atlas ever published illustrating identification of archaeological remains of North American turtles, a must for zooarchaeologists, paleontologists, and anyone else interested in the identification of turtles in North America. Apart from many illustrations and photographs, the atlas provides habitat descriptions, taxonomic classifications, and geographic range maps. To obtain a copy ($19.95), contact The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, P.O. Box 692, Hot Springs, SD 57747-0692, tel.: (605) 745-6017, fax: (605) 745-3038, e-mail: mammoth@mammothsite.com.
     
  4. AERIAL SURVEY UNCOVERS HIGH STREET OF XANADU
    Beijing's China Daily reported that at the Inner Mongolia site now known as Shangdu, Chinese aerial archaeologists, flying over the ruins of Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan, have found a main avenue that they believe was once lined by shops and restaurants. Ancient travellers had frequently referred to a "majestic street used by many foreigners who came to visit Xanadu", posssibly including Marco Polo who had claimed to have visited Xanadu when employed in the court of Kubla Khan, the grandson of Mongol conqueror Genghis Kahn. Some of the details now being exposed seem to vindicate Polo (whom some Western academics doubt ever reached China) and his descriptions of a royal park of 16 miles circuit "where a variety of animals of the deer and goat kind are pastured, to serve as food for the hawks and other birds employed in the chase." Kubla Khan was a great hunter. (from: The Times, Nov. 24, 1997)
     
  5. CALL FOR PAPERS FROM "TSANTSA"
    Tsantsa, the annual magazine of the Swiss Ethnological Society (SSE; SEG) calls for ethnological and anthropological papers. A recently published issue of Tsantsa deals with the question "What practice for anthropology?" Contact: EAAN member Phillipe Dallais, Sekretariat SEG/SSE, c/o. Institut für Ethnologie, Länggassstrasse 49a, CH-3000 Bern 9, Switzerland.
     
  6. NICHIBUNKEN RESEARCHERS & THEIR INTERESTS IN EAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
    Omoto, Keiichi: "The origins and genetic affinities of Japanese as viewed from population genetics."
    Senda, Minoru: "Geographical study on the formation process of ancient Japanese culture."
    Yasuda, Yoshinori: "Reconstruction of the palaeoenvironment of the ancient civilizations."
    Kamigaito, Ken'ichi: "Cultural exchange between Japan and Korea."
    Xu, Chaolong: "The rise of the civilization in the Yangtze Valley, China."
    Ermakova, Lioudmila M.: " "Kojiki" and '"Nihonshoki" as a fundament of literary development."
    Higuchi, Takayasu: "Yangtze River Civilization."
    Yoshizaki, Masakazu: "Cultigens, their origins in and diffusions to Japan; palaeobotany; manifestation of foreign material culture in prehistoric Japan."
    Terasawa, Kaoru: "Origin of Japanese state and city, ancient rice culture in East Asia."
     
  7. ANTIQUE ART DEALER RETRIEVES FRAGMENTS OF NORTH KOREAN TOMB MURAL PAINTING
    A South Korean antique art dealer retrieved fragments of a mural painting from a Japanese archaeologist who recently acquired them during his trip to North Korea. The fragments, dating from the Koguryo Kingdom (37 B.C.- 668 A.D.), come from a tomb in Pyongyang.
     
  8. RUINS TREATED FOR IN SITU DISPLAY
    Work is underway to prepare the excavated Jonokoshi ruins in Mie Prefecture for in situ display. Exposed surfaces are being treated with a specially developed resin to protect them from weathering and ultraviolet radiation while preserving a natural, "wet" appearance. The Nara National Research Institute of Cultural Properties has also decided to employ this technology at the Sannai-Maruyama site in Aomori prefecture, where large dwelling sites and other artifacts will be displayed in the open air. (from: The Japan Foundation Newsletter 25/4, taken from: Asahi Shimbun, 13 Aug. 1997)
     
  9. MAMIYA EXPEDITION REPORTS DISCOVERED
    Three manuscripts owned by the Kochi Prefectural Library have been identified as copies of reports by Mamiya Rinzo (1780-1844), who explored Sakhalin and other northern territories on the orders of the shogunate in the early nineteenth century. The manuscripts, which include Todatsu Chiho Kiko [Travels in Tartary], are believed to have been copied from drafts of his reports and acquired by the Yamanouchi family, the daimyos of the Tosa domain (present-day Kochi Prefecture). Scholarly interest is bound to be aroused by the mystery of how top-secret shogunate documents affecting national defense passed into the hands of a powerful daimyo in western Japan who was not a relative of the Shogun.
    (from: The Japan Foundation Newsletter 25/4, taken from: Mainichi Shimbun, 24 Aug. 1997)
     
  10. HISTORY OF JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE EXTENDED
    Pillars and other remains of large raised-floor buildings dating to the end of the Middle Jomon (around 2000 B.C.) have been discovered at the Sakuramachi site in Toyama Prefecture. Wattle-and-daub construction, formerly thought to have been developed in the Kofun period (A.D. 300-552), and post-and-lintel construction, of which the thirteen-hundred-year-old Nara temple Horyu-ji was thought to be the oldest example, have also been identified at Sakuramachi. These discoveries prove that both sophisticated structures and construction techniques still in use today existed as early as the Jomon period.
    (from: The Japan Foundation Newsletter 25/4, taken from: Mainichi Shimbun, 4 Sept. 1997)
     
  11. JISAI DEPICTED ON FIRST-CENTURY POT
    A pottery fragment recovered from the Karako-Kagi site in Nara Prefecture bears an incised image of a jisai seated alone in the stern of a boat. A jisai was a person chosen to be solely responsible for observing various taboos on sea voyages to China in ancient times and faced death if a voyage did not go well. The third-century A.D. Chinese history Wei Zhi [The Wei Chronicle] describes the appointing of jisai as a unique custom of Yamatai and other communities in Japan. The image on this pottery fragment, which dates to the end of the first century, suggests that sea journeys to the culturally advanced mainland began very early and sheds valuable light on an ancient seafaring practice.
    (from: The Japan Foundation Newsletter 25/4, taken from: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 24 Sept. 1997)
     
  12. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE GUODIAN COPY OF LAOZI (LAO TZU)
    A major discovery was made in 1993 in Hubei Province in China. Near the town of Guodian, in a tomb said to date from the mid Warring States period (ca. 350-300 BC), archaeologists discovered a cache of texts written on slips of bamboo. Included were portions of the popular text known as Laozi (Lao Tzu), or the Daode jing (Tao Te Ching), The Book of the Way and its Power, widely regarded as the earliest, and the "classic", statement of Daoist (Taoist) thought. A transcription of these materials into modern Chinese will be published in April this year by Wen Wu (Cultural Relics) Press in Beijing. But early reports suggest that these slips represent an early stage in the development of the text. There is no indication that this collection of sayings at this early date had any "title"; also, the sequence of "chapters" in this manuscript-when "chapters" can be identified by punctuation-is totally unrelated to the sequence of chapters that we currently find in the book. Also, some chapters are incomplete; clearly, other sayings and/or editorial comments have been added to these early sayings before the book realized its present form. Altogether, there is material from 32 of the book's present 81 chapters contained on these slips.
    On May 22-26 of this year, Dartmouth College will host the first scholarly conference held anywhere in the world on the Guodian Laozi. This conference has been organized by Sarah Allan, the Burlington-Northern Professor of Chinese Studies, and Robert Henricks, Professor of Chinese Religions, and is being funded by the Luce Foundation, with supporting funds provided by the Dean of the Faculty, and the Dickey Endowment for International Understanding. Thirty scholars from all over the world-specialists on the Laozi and/or early Chinese texts, language, and history-will meet in Hanover for five days to discuss the meaning and significance of this new find. About half of these scholars will be coming from China, including two of the archaeologists who participated in the original excavation.
    While these scholarly sessions will be held in Chinese and are closed to the public, there will be a public information session at the close of the meetings, on the morning of Tuesday, May 26. This meeting will be open to all members of the Dartmouth community-students, faculty, staff, and alumni-to interested members of the public, to colleagues in Chinese studies from near and far, and to members of the local, regional, national, and international press. This meeting will convene in Room 3 of the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College at 10:00 AM.
    List of Conference Participants:
    1. LI Xueqin, Director of the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
    2. LI Boqian, Professor of Archaeology, Peking University.
    3. PENG Hao, Curator, Jingzhou Museum in Hubei Province.
    4. LIU Zuxin, Director of the Jingmen City Museum, Hubei Province.
    5. QIU Xigui, Professor of Chinese, Peking University.
    6. GAO Ming, Professor emeritus, Chinese Department, Peking University.
    7. XU Kangsheng, Professor of Philosophy, Peking University.
    8. XING Wen, Lecturer in Archaeology, Peking University.
    9. ZHANG Haiyan, Associate Member of the Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
    10. WANG Bo, Lecturer in Chinese Philosophy, Peking University.
    11. LI Ling, Associate Professor of Chinese, Peking University.
    12. XU Aixian, Deputy Director, Wen Wu Press.
    13. LI Jinyun, Wen Wu Press.
    14. CAI Min, Wen Wu Press.
    15. CHEN Guying, Professor of Philosophy at Taiwan University and Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley.
    16. Edmund Ryden, Assistant Professor, Furen University, Taiwan.
    17. Tomohisa IKEDA, Professor of Chinese Philosophy at Tokyo University.
    18. Kristofer M. Schipper, Professor of Chinese History, Directeur, l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris)
    19. Rudolf Wagner, Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg.
    20. Marc Kalinowski, Professor of Chinese Religion, l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des Sciences Religieuses, Sorbonne.
    21. Isabelle Robinet, Professor of Chinese History and Civilization, University of Aix-Marseille.
    22. Carine Defoort, Associate Professor of Oriental Studies, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
    23. Paul Thompson, Professor Emeritus, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
    24. WANG Tao, Lecturer in Chinese Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
    25. Crispin Williams, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
    26. William Boltz, Professor of Asian Languages at the University of Washington (Seattle).
    27. Harold Roth, Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian Studies, Brown University.
    28. Robin Yates, Professor of Chinese and Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies, McGill University (Montreal).
    29. Roger Ames, Professor of Chinese philosophy and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Hawaii.
    30. Donald Harper, Associate Professor of Chinese, University of Arizona (Tucson).
    31. Sarah Queen, Assistant Professor of Chinese History, Connecticut College.
    32. Sarah Allan, Burlington Northern Professor of Chinese Studies, Dartmouth College.
    33. Robert G. Henricks, Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College.
    (See also Conference Calendar in this issue).
     
  13. THREE KILLED IN STORM WHILE RETRACING ANCIENT SEA ROUTE.
    Three South Korean adventurers died and one was missing January 24 after a wooden raft carrying four men capsized in stormy seas off Japan's western coast, the Foreign Ministry said. The 7-meter-long raft probably overturned at about 6 a.m., about 11 km. northwest off Shimane Prefecture, shortly after the sailors sent a radio SOS message saying that they were extremely exhausted and that their raft was drifting toward Japanese waters. Led by 48-year-old skipper LEE Duk-young, the men were sailing to the South Korean port of Pusan from Vladivostok in eastern Russia, where they left Dec. 31. The group was attempting to retrace the sea route linking Palhae, an ancient Korean dynasty that originated in northeast China, to the Korean Peninsula, home to the Silla Dynasty 1,300 years ago. (from: Korea Newsreview, Jan. 31, 1998).
     
  14. NEW PERCEPTIONS OF LIFE IN THE CHINESE NEOLITHIC
    [from Chinese News Daily, 01/12/98] China's Xinhua news agency, in a story carried by the AFP English Wire, reports that 8,000-year-old settlements in 10 sites have been unearthed in the lower Yellow River Valley. These mark the oldest settlements uncovered in the region, long believed to be the Cradle point of Chinese civilization. The sites, in eastern Shandong province, date from the Yangsho and Longshan Neolithic periods, which were marked by the rise of agriculture and ceramics production, and the transition from a nomadic way of life to permanent settlements. The unearthed settlements were surprising in their density, indicating that communities of the period were more closely-knit than previously believed. Tombs and houses at the sites also give some evidence that these societies were matriarchal in structure. (Phil Stephens, Guochen WAN). (Sent to eaanet by: Min Li).
     
  15. KOREAN TOMBS CLOSING
    Digital Chosun Ilbo ( 97-11-10, www.chosun.com) reports that the tomb of the Korean peninsula Paekche Dynasty king Muryong in South Chungchong Province will be closed indefinitely to the public because of humidity damage which intensified after July 15th of this year. The article mentions that two other tombs will close as well. Attempts to repair the damage will be made by "the management office" of the site, after which time the tomb will be available "for special purposes such as academic research". Furthermore, tomb replicas will be constructed in the vicinity. The tomb of Muryong was excavated in 1971 under the intense glare of the South Korean media. Worldwide interest was captured by the discovery of gold crowns, which are among twelve national treasures recovered from there.
    source: http://www.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/199711/199711100471.html
    (Sent to eaanet by: Martin T. Bale, Dept. of Anthropology & Sociology, University of British Columbia).
     
  16. MIRRORS DISCOVERED IN KUROTSUKA KOFUN
    Japanese archaeologists are very excited about the discovery of 33 bronze mirrors from the Kurotsuka Kofun which is situated in Tenri-city, Nara prefecture. 32 of the mirrors are sankakuen-shinju-kyo, meaning that the rim forms a triangle in cross-section and is decorated with deities and animals. This type of mirror is considered to be the one Queen Himiko received from the Wei Emperor in AD 239. Almost all the sankakuen-shinju-kyo were placed outside the coffin; only one mirror, which belongs to another type, was situated inside the coffin. The Kurotsuka Kofun has a keyhole-shaped mound which is 130m in length. It is almost a miracle that such a big tumulus has not been disturbed yet. The excavation was conducted by the Kashiwara Archaeological Institute. This discovery, which has just been reported on January 10th, surely stimulated the "Yamataikoku" debate again, not only in academic circles but also among many Japanese archaeology and/or ancient history fans. (Sent to eaanet by: Naoko MATSUMOTO, Dept. of Archaeology, Kyushu University, Japan).
    Editor's Note; a very interesting dialog followed Matsumoto's announcement on eaanet. Several issues, including the shape of the Yamataikoku debate, the dates of the sankakubuchi mirrors leading into a discussion of Wei Dynasty reign dates, and the bronze composition of the mirrors were contributed to by several list members. If you wish to follow these debates and have not thus far, please follow the instructions on the back cover of this newsletter for joining the eaanet list server. All dialogs are archived and can be retrieved post-facto.
     
  17. CALL FOR PAPERS FROM THE ORGANIZERS OF THE 31ST CHACMOOL CONFERENCE, CALGARY
    Tommy Ng from the University of Calgary requests papers and participants for the East Asian Session of the 31st Chacmool Conference: "On Being First: Cultural Innovation and Environmental Consequences of First Peoplings" which will be held in November this year (see also the conference section). Contact: 1998 Chacmool Conference, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4, or e-mail him at: tng@acs.ucalgary.ca.
     

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Titles new to this issue are emboldened and those dealing specifically with East Asia are starred
 

March 24-25 '98: Annual Paleoanthropology Society Meeting in conjunction with the Society for American Archaeology, The Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers, Seattle, Washington, USA. Two full days of paper presentations are planned. Partial airfare support will be available for some graduate students and non-U.S. resident presenters. Contact: Dr. John Yellen, Archaeology Program - Room 995, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington VA 22230.

March 25-29 '98: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, U.S.A., at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center and the Sheraton. Contact address: Society for American Archaeology (SAA), 900 Second Street NE #12, Washington DC 20002, USA.

*March 26-29 '98: The 1998 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., U.S.A., at the Washington Hilton and Towers. For more information regarding the program schedule of the Meeting, see: Asian Studies Newsletter vol. 42, nos 4 and 5, check out the AAS web site: http://www.aasianst.org, or e-mail: annmtg@aasianst.org. Contact person: James L. Huffman (Program Chair), Dept. of History, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501, USA, tel. (513) 327-7845, e-mail: jemusu@wittenberg.edu.

*March 28 '98: Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Early China, Washington D.C., U.S.A., at the Washington Hilton and Towers, in conjuction with the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. There will also be a roundtable discussion on the topic: "Correlative Thought and the Question of Huang Lao." The purpose of the roundtable is to assess the current state of research on the development of correlative cosmology in the Warring States, Qin, and early Han periods on the one hand, and to consider the nature of the intellectual tradition called Huang Lao on the other. It is hoped that important issues can be identified, as well as areas for further research. Formal discussants are Donald Harper, John Major and Robin Yates. Contact person: Donald Harper, Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA, tel. (520) 621-7505, fax: (520) 621-1149, e-mail: dharper@u.arizona.edu.

April 6-10 '98: 3rd International Symposium: 14C and Archaeology, Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France. Contact: Secretariat of the 14C and Archaeology Symposium, Centre de Datation par le RadioCarbonne, U.C.B. Lyon I, Bâtiment 217, 43 Bld du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, tel.: 33(0)472448257, fax: 33(0)472431317, e-mail: cdrc14@cismsun.univ-lyon1.fr.

*May 22-26 '98: International Conference on the Guodian Copy of Laozi (Lao Tzu), Dartmouth College, USA. (See Noteworthies No. 12 for more information about the first scholarly conference held anywhere in the world on the Guodian copy of Laozi, a possibly earlier version of the "classic" of Daoist Thought, discovered in 1993 in Hubei province). Contact: Prof. Sarah Allen, Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literature, Bartlett Hall, Darthmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA, tel: 606-646-2457, fax: 603-646-3115, e-mail: Sarah.Allan@Dartmouth.EDU

May 27-30 '98: 7th International Conference on Ground-Penetrating Radar, GPR'98, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Contact: Richard Plumb, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Kansas, 2291 Irving Hill Rd., Lawrence, KS, 66045-2969, tel. (913). 864-7735, fax (913) 864-7789, e-mail gpr98@rsl.ukans.edu, website: www.rsl.ukans.edu/~gpr98.

*June 22-July 17 '98: Dunhuang Art and Society, Dunhuang, People's Republic of China. The Silkroad Foundation and the Dunhuang Research Academy will sponsor and conduct this special seminar, bringing together scholars from the US and China to lecture and discuss the Dunhuang Buddhist art, history and cultures. The official language is English. The program will include lectures, visits to the caves, museums and galleries, and field research updates. Contact: Adela Lee by e-mail: alee@silk-road.com, or fax: 408-867-8669. Dunhuang Seminar, Silkroad Foundation, P.O. Box 2275, Saratoga, CA 95070, U.S.A.

*June 25-28 '98: AAS/IIAS: First International Convention of Asia Scholars , Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. Members of AAS, European Asian Studies associations, and all Asia scholars around the world are invited to participate. This convention is a joined venture of the AAS and the Asia Commitee of the European Science Foundation, in cooperation with six major European Asian studies associations. Contact: Helga Lasschuyt (Project Coordinator), c/o IIAS, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands, tel.: 71-5272227, fax: 71-5274162, e-mail: iiasnews@rullet.leidenuniv.nl. or: nvaps@rullet.leidenuniv.nl.

*July 11-12 '98: "The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan's Scattered Treasures" Conference, New Haven, U.S.A. This conference, will conclude a three-year project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation Inc., that brought together twenty-five Chinese and American scholars who work within the disciplines of archaeology, history, art history and religious studies. The Chinese-English database compiled during the project will be completed in this academic year. This conference, in which the participants will present the completed versions of their papers, will be open to interested members of the public. Contact: Professor Valerie Hansen, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A., e-mail: valerie.hansen@yale.edu.

*Aug 18-23 '98: The First International Congress of Chinese Architectural History, Beijing. Sponsored by The Chinese Society of Architectural History and The Institute of Architectural History and Preservation of Historic Buildings, ten sessions covering all aspects of Chinese architecture and preservation are planned. Registration fee is US$500 (US$300 for students). Contact: Prof. LU Zhou, School of Architecture, Beijing University, luzhou@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn or Nancy Steinhardt: shtzmn@steinhardt.hep.upenn.edu.

Aug 27-29 '98: WARP in Ireland 1998, Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin. This Wetlands conference, which will take place on the U.C.D. campus, will involve two days of lectures, a field trip and a conference dinner. Contact: Department of Archaeology, U.C.D., Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, fax: 00353-1-7061184, e-mail: braftery@indigo.ie.

*Nov 12-15 '98: 31st Annual Chacmool Conference: On Being First: Cultural Innovation and Environmental Consequences of First Peoplings, University of Calgary, Canada. This conference will bring together researchers from a variety of areas including North and South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific, to discuss the consequences of the peopling of places that were uninhabited by humans, by looking at new discoveries, new analytical techniques and broadening theoretical perspectives. There will also be an East Asian session. Contact: Tommy Ng, e-mail: tng@acs.ucalgary.ca, or write to: 1998 Chacmool Conference, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4. (See also Call for Papers, Noteworthies No. 17).

*Nov 21-23 '98: The Culture of Convents in Japanese History, Columbia University, New York. This International Conference is organized by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies. Further information may be obtained from: the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, Columbia University, 406 Kent Hall, New York, NY 10027 USA; tel.: 212-854-7403, fax: 212-678-8629, e-mail: medievaljapan@columbia.edu.

Jan 10-14 '99: World Archaeology Congress 4, Cape Town, South Africa. At the fourth meeting of the WAC, there will be a full and exciting academic programme, comprising symposia that will cover a wide range of issues in global archaeology today. Up-to-date information about the Congress can be found at Web site www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/wac or at www.globalconf.co.za/wac4. Contact: Carolyn Ackermann, Conference Secretariat, Global Conferences, P.O. Box 44503, Claremont 7735, Cape Town, S.A., tel.:(21) 7628600, fax: (21) 7628606, e-mail: wac4@globalconf.co.za.
 

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BIANNUAL CONFERENCE, EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CHINESE STUDIES (EACS), 4-8 September 1996, Barcelona, Spain.
Juhl, Susanne: Archaeological studies in the province of Gansu of the first half of the fifth century
Whitfield, Roderick: Questions of dating: some Song dynasty paintings from Dunhuang
Russel-Smith, Lilla: Planet-gods in Dunhuang and beyond
Nickel, Lukas: Mortuary architecture in northern Henan: a new symbolic concept and its architectural expression at the time of Wang Mang
Wang, Tao: Building the cosmos: a comparative study of the Mingtang (Hall of Brightness)

NEW STUDIES IN CHINESE ART & ANTIQUITIES: AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, 21-23 November 1996, Hong Kong.
Wen, Fong: New studies in Chinese art and antiquities
Rawson, Jessica: Jade dragons and other tokens of immortality in the Eastern Zhou and Han periods
Chang, Lin-Sheng: Notes on Later bronzes

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION 85TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 12-15 February 1997, New York, USA. Papers given on East Asia were:
Hong, Mary H.: Tang bronze mirrors: authentic reflections of the dynasty's artistic achievements
McNair, Amy: King Udayana sculptures at Longmen: new finds and theories
Shatzman Steinhardt, Nancy: Beyond Foguansi: new and newer evidence of Tang architecture
Spiro, Nancy: The palace lady and the bodhisattva in Tang dynasty art
Eichenbaum, Patricia: Ladies in the Tang court

NATIONAL PALACE MUSEUM 86THYEAR WINTER CULTURAL CONFERENCE, 13-20 February 1997, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chang, Kuang-yüan: Overview of Shang and Zhou bronzes
Chang, Kuang-yüan: Shang dynasty bronze inscriptions: the beauty of characters from 3000 years ago
Chang, Kuang-yüan: Overview of oracle bone inscriptions
Chang, Shih-hsien: Conservation of artifacts
Chang, Li-tuan: Overview of Chinese jades, parts 1&2
Yü, P'ei-chin: Overview of Chinese pottery and porcelain, parts 1&2
Lee, Yu-min: The history of pre-Sung landscape painting
Hsü, Kuo-huang: Landscapes by the four Yüan masters
Ch'en, Chieh-chin: The history and characteristics of Chinese calligraphy and painting in Japanese collections
T'an, I-ling: The development of flower-and-bird painting
Wang, Fu-shou: Examination of rare ancient books
Feng Ming-chu: Report on Ch'ing dynasty records in the Museum collection

NICHIBUNKEN TEAM RESEARCH PROJECT, July/September 1997, Kyoto, Japan.
PANEL: Comparative Study of Sino-Japanese Archaeological Cultures, 9 July 1997,
Okamura, Hidenori: The excavations of Chu tombs in the Warring States Era
PANEL: Research on the History of Cultural Exchanges in East Asia, 29 July 1997,
part 1: Cultural exchanges in East Asia during the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
part 2: The history of exchanges in East Asia in the Modern Era
PANEL: Culture of Courtiers and Culture of the Warriors- The Comparative Study of Civilization, 1-2 August 1997,
Oboroya, Hisashi: The funerals and tombs of Heian-period nobility
PANEL: The Formation Process of Cultural Areas in the East Asian Mediterranean World from the 3rd to the 7th Century 25 July, 19-20 September 1997,
Wada, Atsumu: Jewels in the Ancient Period
Uno, Takao: The way of the jewels
Azuma, Ushio: Images of the tomb occupant and images of spirits in Koguryo wall paintings of the North Dynasty in China
Huang, Xiao-fen: The ancient Chinese grave system and its changes

REKIHAKU INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AND NATURAL DISASTERS DURING THE LAST 10,000 YEARS, 25-28 November 1997, Sakura, Japan.
Jones, Philip D.: Paleotemperatures over the past millenium: problems of integrating high resolution records from different disciplines
Zhang, De'er: Climate variations of wetness in East Asia (A.D. 960 - 1992)
Feng, Xiahong: The D/H ratios of tree rings in trees from world wide locations and the implications for climate of the past 100 - 200 years
Sueda, Tatsuo: Hemispherical correlation among dendrochronologically reconstructed temperatures over the past millenium
Mikami, Takehiko: Quantitative climate reconstruction in historical times based on weather records and the related problems
Ohta, Sadaaki: Japanese history recorded in tree rings
Mu, Guijin: Paleoenvironments in Jungar Basin during the last 10ka
Kanemaki, Motoko: Paleogeography and climatic change in Taklimakan desert
Cai, Shuming: Enviromental changes in the middle reaches of Chengjiang
Zheng, Xiangmin: Environmental evolution in Chengjiang delta
Yu, Lizhong: "Soft clay" deposit in Taihu and the paleoenvironment
Murata, Taisuke: Daitom assemblages and environmental changes in Taihu during the last 10,000 years
Shimoyama, Shoichi: Environmental changes during the last 10,000 years in North Kyushu with special reference to shoreline movements
Yoshikawa, Masanobu: Environmental history during the last 10,000 years in Kanto Plain
Tsuji, Sei-ichiro: Human-nature relationship in the Sannai Maruyama site and its environs
Umitsu, Masatomo: Developmental and environmental changes of Japanese deltas
Toizumi, Takeji & Nishimoto, Toyohiro: Jomon shell middens: interaction between Jomon people and marine environment
Mori, Yuichi: Paleoenvironmental history during the pre- and historical ages based on fossil insects
Sparks, Rodger: AMS in New Zealand: current research and future plans
Harunari, Hideji: 14C Ages and chronology of earthenwares in Japan
Nakamura, Toshio: A project of high-precision and high-accuracy 14C dating with a tandetron AMS at Nagoya
Zhou, Weijian: The radiocarbon chronology and environmental changes in desert/loess boundary since the last glacial maximum
Fukasawa, Hitoshi: Non-glacial varved lake and loess-palaeosol sediments as timekeepers and detectors of palaeoenvironmental changes since the last glacial in East Asia
Mitsutani, Takumi: Dendrochronology of Japanese wooden samples

SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY 63RD ANNUAL MEETING, 26-28 March 1998, Seattle, Washington, USA:
PANEL: Sino-Foreign Collaboration in Chinese Archaeology, 28 March 1998,
Allard, F.: Organizer and Chair
Nelson, S.: Recent research in Niuheliang, Liaoning Province
Shelach, G. & Linduff, K.: Changing lifeways in the beifang, China: International Co-operative Project (University of Pittsburgh, Jilin University, Hebrew University)
Madsen, D.B., Elston, R.B., Bettinger, R.L., Brantingham, J.P. & Zen, L.J.: Looking for the antecedents of agriculture in Northern China
Bettinger, R.: Lithic assemblage variability at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in North China: Results of the Pigeon Mountain Project, Ningxia, PRC
Railey, J.: The Yanqu Basin project, North-central China
Underhill, A.P., Feinman, G.M. & Nicholas, L.: Collaborative research on the development of Complex Societies in Southeastern Shandong Province, China
Bennet, G. & Fang, H.: Lithic production during the Late Neolithic period in Southeastern Shandong Province
Shannon C.L. & Leng, J.: Settlement patterns and sociopolitical evolution of the Late Longshan to Erlitou Cultures (2200-1500 B.C.) in the Ying River Valley, Henan Province, China
Cohen, D.J.: The "Investigations into Early Shang Civilization" Project: the continuing search for early Shang
Gunnar, G. & Macneish, R.: The Sino-American Jiangxi Origin of rice agriculture project: Organization and Excavation
MacNeish, R. & G. Gunnar: The Sino-American Jiangxi Origin of rice agriculture project: Analysis and Theory
Miller-Antonio, S., Shepartz, L. & Bakken, D.: Collaborative excavations at Panxian Dadong, a Paleolithic Cave in Guizhou Province, Southern China
Shepartz, L., Bakken, D. & Miller-Antonio, S.: Taphonomic Studies at the cave of Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, Southern China
 

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