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Abstract: Map of major sites in Thailand; (inset) Phromtin Tai site plan and excavation areas (map prepared by Naruphol Wangthongchaicharoen).The multi-component archaeological site of Phromtin Tai (sometimes spelled Promtin Tai, hereabbreviated as PTT) is located on a terrace between 14°59′26.001″N and 100°37′17.004″E (d'Alpoim Guedes et al. 2019) (Fig. 1). The site is named after the modern village of Phromtin Tai, which is partly located on the ancient site and is approximately 20 km northeast of the modern town of Lopburi in east-central Thailand. Several seasons of excavation at the site, directed by Lertcharnrit since 2004, revealed three major temporal contexts divided by clearly defined stratigraphic levels and ... Read More PubDate: 2024-04-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW), a relatively rare and distinctive ceramic, is found in low frequencies in the middle Ganga Plain from ca. 1000 b.c.e. and in the Ganges Basin and throughout South Asia during 700–300 b.c.e., which is reported as the peak period for NBPW (Ahmed 2015; Lal 1955; Roy 1986; Sahay 1969). The introduction of NBPW in the middle Ganga plain coincides with the emergence of the Janapadas realm around 1000 b.c.e. and precedes the beginning of the Second Urbanization period (ca. 600 b.c.e.) and the introduction of coinage and the art of writing. Because the first examples of these black and highly polished or glazed ceramics were first discovered in northern India, they came to be known as ... Read More PubDate: 2024-04-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Western Zhou (1047–771 b.c.e.) is one of the formative periods of Chinese civilization, a period when some of the earliest Chinese states were established and many of the basic attributes of Chinese culture and social norms evolved (Li 2006; Loewe and Shaughnessy 1999; Shelach-Lavi 2015). One of the most renowned features of this period's material culture are the bronze vessels produced for the royal houses and elites and used in state rituals, burial ceremonies, and as prestige objects. The style, function, and decoration of bronze vessels are among the most extensively studied topics in the research on early China. The documentation and study of such vessels harks back to the antiquarian traditions that ... Read More PubDate: 2024-04-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The zither is the definitive musical instrument of East Asian literati history, although the archaeological record reveals that its story begins long before the written word in Japan. Zithers are one type of chordophone, a musical instrument with one or more strings stretched between two fixed points. A "simple chordophone or zither" is considered any instrument consisting "solely of a string bearer, or of a string bearer with a resonator" within the widely used standards of the Hornbostel-Sachs musical instrument classification system, or organology (Hornbostel and Sachs 1961:20). Nearly 200 objects identified as simple zithers or zither parts have been excavated at 99 sites throughout the Japanese archipelago ... Read More PubDate: 2024-04-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: At the outset of Seeing Like a State, James Scott (1998: 2) argued that "the premodern state was, in many crucial respects, partially blind." Given the lack of bureaucratic technologies to measure the productivity of its peoples and lands, it had little knowledge about its subjects and geography. Korolkov's book, The Imperial Network in Ancient China, revises this narrative by documenting the development of state spaces in one of the lesser known places in China at the southern peripheries of the Qin and Han empires. From a long historical perspective, regions south of the Yangzi River valley have conventionally been represented as a geographic backwater of the Chinese state, at least until the fourth to fifth ... Read More PubDate: 2024-04-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This book is the result of an international conference held in Paris in 2015 that focused on historical maritime interaction around the island of Taiwan in the hope that, by providing an overview of current research status from multiple disciplines, future research topics might be generated. Thus, the papers included in this collection are from a variety of fields and cover a vast range of topics, from descriptions of Taiwan's surrounding natural environment, climate changes, seasonal winds, and current conditions to descriptions of related Neolithic to proto-historic archaeological cultures of Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, Philippines, and Thai-Malay Peninsula, summaries and interpretations of Chinese and Spanish ... Read More PubDate: 2024-04-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Located some 12 km from the present-day coast of the Beibu Gulf—Vietnam's "Gulf of Tonkin"—in southern China's Guangxi Province, the site of Hepu has received continual attention from archaeologists over the past half century. This book focuses on Hepu's Han Dynasty (206 b.c.e.–c.e. 220) burials, which are presently estimated at numbering over 10,000. Of these, about 1200 have been excavated so far and have yielded tens of thousands of artifacts. Even though the burials are unevenly distributed over a large area of 68 km2, the authors identify Hepu as a single burial ground, "the biggest and one of the best-preserved Han-period cemeteries ever discovered in China" (p. vi). Although burials dating to the following ... Read More PubDate: 2024-04-09T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Douglas E. Yen passed away peacefully at the age of 99, in Clovis, California. He was one of the most influential ethnobotanists and archaeobotanists of the Pacific and Asia region, even though his becoming an ethnobotanist was not planned but rather "accidental" in nature. I offer this reflection on Doug's life from the perspective of one who was mentored by him at an early age, then became a collaborating colleague, as well as a life-long friend. In his final years we kept in touch regularly by phone and I had the pleasure of seeing him from time to time in California and Hawai'i.Doug was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Lily and Ernest Hai Yen, who owned a Chinese import store. Growing up, Doug played field ... Read More PubDate: 2024-04-09T00:00:00-05:00
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