Abstract: <p>By Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, Elizabeth Langstroth</p>
Since the discovery in 1982 of the “Narmada Man” fossil cranial remains in the middle Narmada (Narbadda) Valley of India (Fig. 1) by the geologist Arun Sonakia, several scholars in the international community of palaeoanthropologists have sought to determine the specimen’s antiquity, its stratigraphic context, and the nature of its associated middle Pleistocene stone tools. Removed from the deposit were Acheulian-type hand axes, cleavers, and fossilized bones and teeth of extinct faunal species. Research within the Narmada River system was directed in 1964–1965 by the late Theodore D. McCown (1908–1969) with his team from the University of California at Berkeley. McCown’s untimely death and other circumstances ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspectives/v050/50.1-2.kennedy.html">Read More</a> Keywords: Archaeology PubDate: 2013-06-13T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By Peter Bellwood, Marc Oxenham, Bui Chi Hoang, Nguyen Kim Dzung</p>
An Son (An So̕n in Vietnamese) is situated on the edge of the active floodplain of the Vam Co Dong, a relatively small river that rises close to the Cambodian border and flows southward through Tay Ninh and Long An Provinces of southern Vietnam to meet the Vam Co Tay River (Fig. 1). It then flows jointly to the sea with the Vam Co Tay across the northern side of the Mekong Delta. In recent years, a large number of archaeological sites dating from the Neolithic to the Iron Age have been investigated in the two Vam Co drainage systems and the adjacent Dong Nai and Saigon River valleys, all forming the hinterland to modern Ho Chi Minh City. Many date from the Bronze and Iron Ages (1000 b.c.–a.d. 500), but the Vam Co ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspectives/v050/50.1-2.bellwood.html">Read More</a> Keywords: Vietnam, Southern PubDate: 2013-06-13T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By Tim Barribeau</p>
This article analyzes the Bronze Age mortuary ceramics from the site of Ban Non Wat, Thailand, in order better to understand how these vessels relate to chronology and the changes that occur in burials through the time. This investigation employs statistics to analyze the occurrences of particular ceramic forms, including seriation, near neighbor, and correspondence analyses. Furthermore, spatial analyses of both the layout of mortuary vessels and of burials were undertaken, as were numerical comparisons of these features to indicate if certain pot forms are tied to wealth. Ban Non Wat in Changwat Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, is a prehistoric site that was occupied from the Neolithic to the historic ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspectives/v050/50.1-2.barribeau.html">Read More</a> Keywords: Bronze age PubDate: 2013-06-13T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By Maa-Ling Chen</p>
Complexity in a social system is characterized by social differentiation, centralization of power, and hierarchical organization. As a consequence, archaeologists have generally looked for diversity in mortuary treatments, residential and public architecture, monumental constructions, craft specialization, and the distribution of imported or prestige goods as indicators of social differentiation, social control, and complexity in a particular social system. Recently, however, the range and degree by which rules and constraints regulate and coordinate the practices of daily and social life within and outside houses have also been regarded as indicators of where social control is embedded. In this study, it is ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspectives/v050/50.1-2.chen.html">Read More</a> Keywords: Dwellings PubDate: 2013-06-13T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By Peter Weiming Jia</p>
This article focuses on the field of environmental archaeology in the northeastern region of China, although a few external examples of archaeological work in other regions will also be considered for comparison (Fig. 1). The term “Northeast China,” as used in the context of this article, comprises mainly the current Chinese administrative divisions of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang, and extends to the three city-districts of Chifeng Tongliao , Hulunbei’er as well as the two Mengs , Xingan and Xilinguole , in the eastern part of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region1 (Zi and Gao 2006 : 2–3). Northeast China is a region of diverse natural resources found in different land formations and climate zones ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspectives/v050/50.1-2.jia.html">Read More</a> Keywords: Manchuria (China) PubDate: 2013-06-13T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By Brian Hayden</p>
Corporate groups have attracted great attention in anthropology and archaeology since the time of Lewis Henry Morgan (1881), who tended to characterize all of North American traditional societies as corporate in nature. While more recent anthropological studies have often maintained that corporate groups are usually based on the control of some important resource (e.g., land, fishing sites, weirs, irrigation wells), much less attention has been devoted to the internal dynamics and economics of corporate groups. One of the more intriguing aspects of such groups has been the overt hostility of industrial economic leaders and ideologues toward indigenous corporate groups. In a number of cases (notably in British ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspectives/v050/50.1-2.hayden.html">Read More</a> PubDate: 2013-06-13T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By Teresa P. Raczek</p>
Most of human history in South Asia has been a mobile one. It is only around 7000 b.c. at Mehrgarh (C. Jarrige et al. 1995; J.-F. Jarrige et al. 2005), and later in more southern regions, that people settled down into permanent habitations. Even with the onset of sedentism, though, many people continued to practice a mobile lifestyle in concert with a variety of subsistence strategies including foraging, pastoralism, craft production, and performance. Many archaeologists who study early farming communities and early complex societies in South Asia have identified connections between sites occupied by mobile groups and more permanent settlements. In contrast to this type of research, which studies mobile people ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspectives/v050/50.1-2.raczek.html">Read More</a> Keywords: Archaeology PubDate: 2013-06-13T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: <p>By T. O. Pryce, A. H. Bevan, R. Ciarla, F. Rispoli</p>
Intensive surface surveys are by now a common and well-established approach to understanding the archaeological landscapes of many parts of the world. However, they have hitherto remained relatively rare in Southeast Asian archaeology. In this paper we assess the potential contribution of such surveys in Southeast Asia, particularly with regard to archaeometallurgical landscapes. We also report the results of a short but intensive survey in the environs of Khao Sai On, in Changwat Lopburi, central Thailand (Fig. 1), that underlines some of the major strengths and weaknesses of this kind of approach in a Southeast Asian context.1 Located at the southern end of the Loei-Petchabun Volcanic Belt, the Lopburi ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspectives/v050/50.1-2.pryce.html">Read More</a> Keywords: Southeast Asia PubDate: 2013-06-13T00:00:00-05:00
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