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Francis ALLARD is in China on dissertation fieldwork until April 1992. His addresses are: Permanent:
c/o Qiao Xiaoqin Department of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology Forbes Quad, 3rd floor
Zhongshan University University of Pittsburgh
Guangzhou, PRC Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA

Dr. Norbert R. ADAMI (Japanese & Korean pre- & proto-historic archaeology,  history and religion)
Urban View
Mejiro 202
Mejiro 4-23-14
Toshima-ku, Tokyo 102 Japan
Home 03-5996-2676
Work 03-3222-5077
FAX 03-3222-5420
Dr. Adami is presently a researcher in the Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien in Tokyo. He is interested in the history of Far Eastern thought and religions with a special focus on the following topics: interrlationships between officially dominant ideology and social reality; the relationship between socially and/or officially accepted values, their changes and the development of medical thought as paradigmatic for the interrelationship between thought (social, religious, etc.) and the sciences; syncretism of Buddhism and indigenous religions in China, Korea, and Japan; and shamanism in Northeast Asia (Siberia) and the Far East. He obtained a degree in Library Science from the Library Science and Documentations Special University at Köln in 1984, and for two years was head of the library at the Deutsches Institute before taking up his research position there.

AN Deog-im has returned from London to her position as an archaeological curator at the Seoul National Museum. She can be reached at:
Seoul National Museum
Chongno-gu, Seoul, Korea 02-738-3800

BAE Ki-dong took his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, not the University of Washington as stated in EAANnouncements 4. Apologies for the error!

Peter BLEED has returned from his Japan Foundation research in Sendai. He can again be reached at:
Department of Anthropology Home 402-466-6805
University of Nebraska Work 402-472-2439
Lincoln NB 68503 USA FAX 402-472-1123
A report on one aspect of his research has been published as "Historic Archaeology in Japan"Japan Foundation Newsletter 19.1:13-17 (1991). See Reports & Reviews section below for another.

Emma C. BUNKER (Protohistoric - early historic Chinese archaeology)
Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Ave. Parkway
Denver, Colorado 80204 USA
Home 307-322-4768
Work 303-640-2203
FAX 307-322-3333
Emma is a Research Consultant with the Denver Art Museum-a long commute from her home in Wheatland Wyoming! She is currently engaged in research on the art of the northern grasslands (of Eurasia, not North America!) during the 1st millennium BC and its connections with ancient dynastic China. [see her plea for group travel to the conference in Mongolia, summer '92, in the Conference Calendar below]

Martina DEUCHLER has been given a personal chair in the History Department of SOAS, University of London. She thus now holds a professorship as well as the directorship of the Centre of Korean Studies at SOAS. Congratulations Martina!

Dr. Rupert F.J. FAULKNER (Japanese medieval and later archaeology and
Far Eastern Collection ceramic history)
Victoria & Albert Museum
South Kensington
London SW7 2RL UK
Work 071-938-8267
FAX 071-938-8667
Rupert is Deputy Curator of the Far Eastern Collection at the V&A, where a new Korea gallery is currently being arranged, due to open in December 1992. During his dissertation research in Japan in the late 1970s, he worked with S. Narasaki at the Sanage kiln sites in Nagoya. His research at that time focussed on Mino ware.

Chuimei HO (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago) received a CSCPRC travel grant to attend a conference in Quangzhou, Fujian, on "The Comprehensive Investigation of the Marine Silk Route: the Sea Silk Route and China."

Simon KANER (Univ Cambridge) has received a Mombusho scholarship to study Japanese archaeology from Oct'91 to Apr'93. He will focus on Jomon artefacts to coordinate with his Jomon settlement studies, and he hopes to develop a project of GIS (Geographical Information Systems) application to a Japanese database. While in Japan, he can be contacted at:
Department of Archaeology
Kyoto University
Kyoto 606 Japan

KANG Bong-won has entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Oregon after completing the M.A. program at Arizona State University. His research will focus on the role of warfare in state formation, particularly in the case of Kaya. He can be reached via the
Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon
Eugene OR 97403 USA

Gabriele KASTROP (Japanese prehistory through early history)
Dietkirchenstr. 22
5300 Bonn 1, Germany
Home 0228-654541
Work 0228 737223
Gabriele is a student in Japanology at the Japanologisches Seminar, Bonn University.

Prof. Dr. Josef KREINER (Japanese protohistory & early history; cultural anthropology)
Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Nissei Kojimachi bldg.
Kudan-Minami 3-3-6
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102 Japan
Work 03-3222-5077
FAX 03-3222-5420
Prof. Kreiner is currently on leave from Bonn University to be the Director of the Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stiftung German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo. Though his field of study is the cultural and social anthropology of Japan, he writes that "since student times I have also taken great interest in the question of Japanese ethnogenesis which brought me in contact with Japanese protohistory." Two of his publications deal with this topic:
"Heinrich Freiherr von Siebold - Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der japanischen Völkerkunde und Urgeschichte." In: Bonner Zeitschrift für Japanologie, vol. 2, pgs. 147-203, Bonn 1980 (deals with Heinrich von Siebold's excavation of the shell mounds at Omori and his thesis on the Japanese ethnogenesis).
"Geschichte und heutiger Forschungsstand der Diskussion um die Entstehung des japanischen Volkes und seiner Kultur." In: Sepp Linhart (ed.): Japan: Sprache, Kultur, Gesellschaft. Pgs. 18-50, Vienna: Literas 1985 (deals with the Japanese discussion of the ethnogenesis of the Japanese people and its culture).

Dr. Colin MACKENZIE (Chinese and Korean archaeology and art history)
Yale University Art Gallery
2006 Yale Station
New Haven, CT 06520 USA
Colin finished a tome of a dissertation on Chu material culture at SOAS two years ago and subsequently held a research post at the University of Durham. He has now taken up the position of Associate Curator of Asian Art at Yale.

John OLSEN is returning to the University of Arizona this autumn after a very satisfying tour of duty as the CSCPRC representative in Beijing. His address there is:
Department of Anthropology Work 602-621-4321 or 2858
The University of Arizona, Building 30 FAX 602-621-2088
Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA BITNET: [...]
INTERNET: [...]
His many activities in Beijing included a trip to Mongolia where the CSCPRC successfully negotiated a general agreeement on bilateral scientific cooperation with the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. Returning from Ulaan Baatar, John spent 10 days in the field visiting grasslands ecological research stations and archaeological sites.

Dr. Jessica RAWSON FBA (Chinese archaeology)
Far Eastern Department
The British Museum
Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG
Home 071-794-4002
Work 071-636-1555
Jessica has recently become Head of the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum and has also received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge, based on her publications.

Dr. Peter ROWLEY-CONWY (East Asian prehistoric archaeology)
Department of Archaeology
University of Durham
46 Saddler Street
Durham DH1 4NU UK
Home 091-384-8429
Work 091-374-3632
FAX 091-374-3740
Peter is a Europeanist who became interested in the Jomon culture via his excavations of Danish ErtebŌlle shellmound. His review of early Japanese and Korean subsistence patterns in World Archaeology 16 (1984) is of great comparative value. As for field work, he says he regrets doing "nothing east of Syria or west of Newfoundland"!

Kidder SMITH (Chinese early history)
Asian Studies
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine 04011 USA
Work 207-725-3524
FAX 207-725-3123
EMAIL: [...]
Kidder Smith is an Associate Professor at Bowdoin College currently absorbed in research on Warring States history, especially the military traditions.

Dr. Anne P. UNDERHILL (East Asian prehistoric to early historic
Department of Anthropology archaeology)
Franklin and Marshall College
Department of Anthropology
Lancaster PA 17604-3003 USA
Home 717-293-5154
Work 717-291-4369
FAX 717-291-3969
Anne holds a two-year Visiting Assistant Professorship at Franklin and Marshall College and has spent the summer at Stanford University's Chinese language institute in Taipei on a CCK summer postdoctoral fellowship. She teaches the Archaeology of Asia, and her primary research interest is in the Late Neolithic of China. Her dissertation was entitled Changing patterns of pottery production during the Longshan Period of northern China, ca. 2500-2000 BC. University of British Columbia, 1990. Her most recent publication on the topic is "Pottery production in chiefdoms: the Longshan period in northern China" World Archaeology 23.1:12-17, 1991. At the November AAA meetings in Chicago, she will give a paper in an invited session, Craft Specialization, Power, and Inequality, organized by John Clark of Brigham Young Univ.

Don WAGNER has returned to Copenhagen from Cambridge and has a new address:
Reverdilsgade 3, 1.th. 45-31312581
DK-1701 Copenhagen V, Denmark

Mariko YAMAGATA was in Vietnam from August 20 to September 25 1991 to help with post-excavation work on the materials from the Lang Vac site (a Dongson period cemetery site) dug last year by the Vietnam-Japan Joint Archaeological Project.

Tadanao YAMAMOTO (Proto-historic and early historic Japanese and
1-4-2 Nishi-Iwata Chinese archaeology)
Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 578 Japan
Home 0729-64-2664
Work 07442-4-1122
FAX 07442-4-1742
Mr. Yamamoto has worked for nearly 20 years in the excavation section of the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, first at the Heijo Palace site, and now as Chief Researcher at the Fujiwara Palace site. His M.A. thesis at Kyoto University dealt with Scythian animal style art, which formed the basis of 4 journal articles and 1 book. He is now reviving that interest through fieldwork in southern Siberia [see Asian Scholars Abroad, below].

Ann YONEMURA (East Asian art history)
Arther M. Sackler Gallery
Freer Gallery of Art
Smithsonian Institution
Washington DC 20560 USA
Work 202-357-2322
FAX 202-357-2911
As a curator at the Freer, Ann is interested in all periods of East Asian art, from the prehistoric onwards.

 

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The Role of Wetland Sites in Japanese Prehistory
  by Akira MATSUI, Nabunken

Japanese culture has sometimes been characterised as the 'wooden culture' in comparison with the Western 'stone culture'. The natural conditions of this country are not generally very good for organic remains, but wetland sites distributed in alluvial plains, lake shores and basins serve to preserve them. Recent progress in excavation techniques, especially using iron sheet piles, makes possible deep and dangerous digging in areas of high water table. The following are some of the important wetland sites that have recently been excavated in Japan.

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Success and Failure in the Japanese Palaeolithic
  by Peter Bleed, University of Nebraska

I undertook a Japan Foundation fellowship during the first half of 1991 to study terminal Paleolithic wedge-shaped microblade cores. Assemblages with very distinctive wedge-shaped microcores have been found throughout the Japanese archipelago over the past 40 years. They are horizon markers for the terminal Paleolithic and have attracted a great deal of attention because they are similar to cores found in other parts of East Asia and Beringia (see Serizawa 1986; Hayashi 1968; Kobayashi 1970; Andrefsky 1987).

Analysis of microcores has traditionally emphasized their production technology and typology so that the techniques involved in making the cores have been reconstructed in minute detail and their age and distribution are well documented. The goal of my research was to address the role cores and microblades played in terminal paleolithic economy. Toward that end, I used a management technique-event tree analysis (Bleed 1991)-to study core production at terminal Japanese paleolithic sites. The assemblages considered were from Fukui Cave in Nagasaki, the Araya site in Niigata, and the Kakuniyama site in northern Yamagata. These collections were studied at Tohoku University and made available through the generous support of Profs. Chosuke SERIZAWA, Takeshi SUTO, and Minoru KATO. Additionally, while in Sapporo, Masakazu YOSHIZAKI let me examine classic microcore collections from Hokkaido and Eiichi CHIBA let me gather data on the recently excavated Shinmichi and Ishikawa 1 assemblages. To illustrate my work, I will briefly review some of the data from Araya.

Lithic raw material arrived at the Araya site either as large flakes or bifaces. The excavated assemblage includes only 3 unmodified biface portions; but given the number of both core tools and tools made on flakes from bifacial cores in the Araya assemblage, this small number indicates that bifaces brought to the site were thoroughly used. Among their various uses, bifaces were transformed into microblade cores in the following six step process:

  1. Detach 'first bevel spall'. Many of the Araya bifaces had a sharp beveled edge formed along one lateral margin by means of a single 'bevel blow'. This blow also detached a distinctive 'first bevel spall' which has a distinctive triangular cross section. There are 13 first bevel spalls in the Araya assemblage.
    Removal of a first bevel spall created a biface with a very sharp edge along one 'beveled margin'. There is 1 such biface in the collection. It has steep scalar retouch on the bevel margin suggesting that it had been used for fine chopping.
     
  2. Detach 'second bevel spall'. Debitage in the collections indicates that at least some beveled bifaces had a 'second bevel spall' removed from their beveled margin. In cross section, these spalls are parallelgograms with flake scars on two parallel faces. There are 3 such 'second bevel spalls' in the Araya collection. All these show irregular scalar retouch along the dorsal ridge. This ridge had, of course, been formed by the first bevel blow so that the chopping retouch appears to be further evidence that the beveled margins were used as chopping edges. I think, then, that second bevel blows likely served to sharpen the bifaces for further use.
    The two steps described so far appear to have started the process that resulted in microblade cores, but they may not have actually been steps in core production since the beveled bifaces that were their immediate results were themselves useful as tools. With the next step, it seems that core production itself was begun.
     
  3. Detach 'platform spall'. In at least some cases, beveled bifaces were further shaped by the removal of a distinctive flake that can be called a 'platform spall'. These flakes were also detached from the beveled edge but were struck to leave a margin that was perpendicular rather than oblique to the transverse plane of the biface. Platform spalls, thus, have a distinctive cross section in which the ventral surface is oblique to the large scar on the dorsal surface. There are 3 platform spalls in the Araya collection. Again, all of these show irregular retouch along the margin of the beveled surface indicating that they had been detached from bifaces used for chopping.
    The other result of the platform blow was a biface section with a single flat surface running transversely along its length. Such split bifaces served as preforms for the production of microblade cores. There are two preforms in the collection.
     
  4. Shape the blank. Suitable preforms were prepared for use as microblade cores by the removal of flakes along both lateral margins. These were detached from the flat platform surface. These flakes served to narrow the preform, reduce its depth, and gave the blank a symmetrical 'boat-shape' with a triangular cross section and a single straight ridge opposite the flat platform surface. There are 3 shaped blanks in the Araya collection.
     
  5. Detach the first blade. With the platform created and the blank shaped, a fluted surface for microblade removal could be set up at one narrow end of the blank. This was done by detaching a single blade from the narrow end of the blank. This 'first blade' had a distinctive shape. There are 3 of these in the collection.
     
  6. Detach microblades. After the first blade was removed, microblades could be detached from the fluted surface created on the narrow margin of the core. Seven cores recovered from Araya appear to have been either in use or usable.
    Discussion: I have included some quantitative information in this example to suggest some of the issues I intend to explore with event tree analysis. With these data, it is possible to reconstruct the total number of cores made and used at Araya and to determine which particular steps were carried out at the site. Those kinds of information make clear the kinds of products that were brought to and removed from the site so that broader economic patterns of mobility and site function can be addressed. Finally, since the risks associated with each step in the production process can be determined by counting the number of failed pieces, I hope that my analysis will make it possible to discuss the design and management of microblade technology.

References:
Andrefsky, W. 1987. Diffusion and innovation from the perspective of wedge-shaped cores in Alaska and Japan. In The Organization of Core Technology, edited by J. Johnson and C. Morrow, pp. 13-44. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Bleed, Peter 1990. Operations research and archaeology. American Antiquity 56.1: 19-35.
Kobayashi, T. 1970. Microblade industries in the Japanese archipelago. Arctic Anthropology 7: 38-58.
Hayashi, K. 1968. The Fukui microblade technology and its relationships in Northeast Asia and North America. Arctic Anthropology 5: 128-190.
Serizawa, C. 1986. The Paleolithic age of Japan in the context of East Asia: a brief introduction. In Windows on the Japanese Past, edited by R. Pearson, et al., pp. 191-98. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan.

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Miyanomae: an early rice paddy site in Yamanashi
  by Mark Hudson, University of Tokyo

The Miyanomae site is located in Nirasaki city, Yamanashi Prefecture at the northwest edge of the Kofu Basin. During excavations in the spring of 1990, the site produced remains from the Late Jomon, Nara and Heian periods, including 425 pit buildings. Two paddy fields were found in the southwest corner of the site. One of these dates to the Heian, but this note will discuss the second, Yayoi-period field.

The Yayoi paddy field covers an area of 8 by 11m and is divided into 8 irregular sections of 3-11m2 by small baulks some 10-15 cm high and 15-20 cm wide. A sluice gate was also found. Pottery sherds from the surface of this field dated to the late Early Yayoi; the layer above produced late Middle to early Late phase sherds. 14C samples from these two layers gave uncalibrated dates of 2670±80 bp and 2190±80 bp. Pottery from directly beneath the paddy field was found to belong to the Kori I type of the end of the Final Jomon. This Miyanomae paddy field is thus believed to date to the middle-late Early Yayoi, more or less contemporary with Sunazawa in Aomori. These two sites, therefore, share the distinction of being the earliest rice paddies in eastern Japan.

The original landform around Miyanomae was reconstructed with the help of aerial photographs taken by the US Air Force in the late 1940s. The site is on the right bank of the Shio River, which now flows in a shallow canyon but in antiquity had a variable course across the area of the site. Stretches of originally high ground were identified from aerial photographs and found to correspond with known site distributions along the river. The settlement remains at Miyanomae were also located on such ancient high ground with the paddy fields built near to the old river course. Water management problems associated with this physical location are believed to have been the reason behind the small-sized Yayoi paddies. It should be noted that the geographic position of Miyanomae contrasts strongly with many later Yayoi sites in Yamanashi which were built on high, strategic ridges.

The discovery of early paddy fields at Miyanomae had been preceded by the identification in 1988 of rice phytoliths from the temper of a Kori I sherd with a rice grain impression at the nearby Nakamichi site. A similar Kori I sherd with a rice impression from beneath the Yayoi paddy field was also found to contain rice phytoliths, thus there is a real possibility that rice cultivation was conducted from this stage.

What can Miyanomae tell us about the spread of rice cultivation into Yamanashi and central Japan? Perhaps the most important point is that rice was introduced before there was any real artifactual change in Yamanashi. Although from the phytolithic evidence alone we cannot be certain that rice was cultivated in the Kori stage, the chances are high that it was. Almost without doubt rice was being eaten by the people who made Kori pottery. Kori, however, was basically a Final Jomon culture with stone clubs (sekibo), clay figurines and other traditional Jomon trappings. While Kori pottery does show links with the tottaimon ceramics of the Kansai region, it seems safe to conclude that rice cultivation was first adopted by the Jomon people of Yamanashi. This is by no means a remarkable conclusion as the same thing happened throughout much of western Japan. Later immigration of non-local peoples is not ruled out by this model; such immigration certainly happened in parts of western Japan. At Miyanomae, incised (jokonmon) ceramics from the Tokai region were associated with the actual paddy field remains, but there seems no reason to assume a cultural break between this stage and the preceding Kori phase.

The location of Miyanomae is also important. The Kofu Basin is surrounded on all sides by mountains. There are two main routes of entry, from the southwest and northwest. Miyanomae is at the northwest edge of the basin, raising questions about the route by which rice was transmitted. Did it come up the Fuji River from the Pacific coast or down from the Japan Sea via the Matsumoto Plain? In an article in press in the journal Kikan Kokogaku, Yamanashi archeologists Nakayama and Toyama make the important observation that the early rice sites in the Chubu region (including Miyanomae) are all inland, contrasting with the Tohoku where the earliest Yayoi culture is assumed to have been introduced by sea.

References:
HIRANO Osamu, KUSHIHARA Koichi and YAMASHITA Koji 1991. Yamanashi-ken Nirasaki-shi Miyanomae iseki. Nihon Kokogaku Kyokai Nenpo 1991: 452-455.
NAKAYAMA Seiji and TOYAMA Shuichi 1991. Ine to inasaku no hakyu. Kikan Kokogaku 37 (forthcoming in October issue).

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The San-no-hara site, Izu
  by Mariko YAMAGATA and Mark HUDSON, University of Tokyo

San-no-hara is a Jomon-period site in Futo, Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The site is located 580 m from the eastern coastline of the Izu Peninsula, 125-130 m above sea-level. Excavations were conducted between March and July 1989 by Rikkyo University prior to the construction of a staff recreational facility by the same university.

Within an excavation area of 840 m2, four pit-houses were discovered. Although no artifacts were found in these features, on stratigraphic grounds they probably belong to the Incipient Jomon. Other features included 12 pits, one of which was a flask-shaped storage pit. These pits date to the Initial and Early, as well as the Incipient Jomon. Nine small pits full of charcoal and four filled with burnt earth were also excavated. The other main features were 13 stone clusters. There was great variability in the size and shape of these clusters, but the larger examples were about 1 x 2 m2. Some had associated pottery of the Incipient, Initial and Early phases, and some had pits underneath the stones. Only a few of the stones were burnt, and the function of these stone clusters is not known.

1638 sherds of pottery were uncovered. Sherds from three phases were particularly common: around half belong to the cordmarked (tajomon) and yoriitomon phases of the second half of the Incipient Jomon [NB: yoriitomon is sometimes assigned to the Initial phase]; the other two well-represented phases were the end of the Initial and the Moroiso stage of the late Early. The large quantity of well-preserved Moroiso ceramics suggests the site was a residential one, and the dwellings of the Moroiso people are thought to lie beyond the excavated area. More than half of the lithic artifacts uncovered were grinding stones. Despite many obsidian flakes, only a few fixed tool types such as arrowheads were found. Characterization and hydration dating analyses were conducted on a sample of the obsidian. 69.6 (n=71) came from Kozushima Island; hydration dates ranged from 3,900 to 22,000 BP though dates of 5,800-6,000 BP, 8,600 BP and 11,700-12,000 BP accounted for 26 , 33 and 30 respectively.

Artifacts suggesting the exploitation of marine resources were completely absent at San-no-hara. Within a terrestrial subsistence system, the relative abundance of grinding stones may imply a strong dependence on plant food. A major reason for this was probably the difficulty of access to the sea since a 100 m high cliff separates the site from the ocean.

Although the presence of a few Kasori E sherds suggests the site was visited in the Middle Jomon, the eruption of a nearby volcano, Mt. Omuroyama, in the Late Jomon probably explains the lack of Late and Final phase sites in the area. San-no-hara was covered by a layer of ash around 1 m thick from Omuroyama.

Reference: Rikkyo Gakuin San-no-hara Iseki Chosadan (eds.)San-no-hara iseki [The San-no-hara Site]. Tokyo: Rikkyo University.

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Indonesia and Her Relations with the Mainland: client, colony or trade partner?
  by Katheryn M. Linduff, University of Pittsburgh

[A synopsis of a paper given at the 2nd International Conference on Ancient Bronze Drums and Bronze Cultures in Southern China and Southeast Asia-see Conference section below.]

Studies of the Indonesian Archipelago during the metal period (1st m. BC) have focussed primarily on the appearance of bronze drums, or fragments of drums, of the Dong-son type and decor which were discovered and reported in Indonesia as early as 1730 (Barchewitz 1730). Since then, archaeologists and historians have collected additional information on the drums: Heine-Geldern (1933, 1937); Goloubew (1932); Hoop (1932); Loewenstein (1956); and most recently, Kempers (1988). The objects which they catalogued and discussed were drums, primarily Heger Type I, a well-known type produced in Vietnam and other locations in Southeast Asia as well as in south and southwest China.

These kettledrums make up the bulk of the metal inventories of the period in Indonesia, and they have distinctive qualities as objects of ritual and probably as carriers of symbolic meaning; but little attention has been given to how those drums came to be in Indonesia or to examining the nature of the relationship between the visitors bearing such objects and their Indonesian hosts. The occurrence of these import goods in tribal contexts must have entailed an event of implantation and acceptance as a consequence of encounter and contact. A fuller understanding of the manner of exchange between these communities will, hopefully, clarify the appearance of such sophisticated bronzes in Indonesia and, perhaps, their continued reverence and technological impact long past their introduction into the islands.

Scholars in the past have used comparative methods of visual analysis, based on taxonomies of type, style and motif, to identify both the manner and direction of exchange (Coedes 1962; Goloubow 1929, 1932). Often primacy of one culture over another was argued, as influence was thought to radiate from a dominant nuclear area (Chang 1964; Bleckman 1972). Karlgren argued for a Chinese origin (Karlgren 1942); diffusionist scholars such as Heine-Geldern pioneered the notion that this art reflected western origins and that Dong-son was the springboard for trans-Pacific ethnic movements that could account for parallels in the Pacific Basin (Heine-Geldern 1928, 1932, 1937). A conference at Columbia University in 1968 was focussed, for instance, on the impact of China on the cultures of the Pacific (Barnard 1974). Scholars at a Colloquy held at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 1973 concentrated on Southeast Asia as a meeting point for cultural influences derived from neighboring cultures, but it concluded that this region should be seen in terms of its own prehistory. I intend to change the focus yet again by making the conditions of exchange the center of attention.

Models for interaction between exchange communities have been developed by American anthropologists, archaeologists and historians who have examined the contact between ancient Roman, Meso-American, and Chinese state-based communities and their neighbors on the frontiers (Eadie 1976; Hassig 1985; Lattimore 1962; Yu 1967). Based on analysis of material remains, these studies suggest that relations between an imperial (or state-based) center and a peripheral area (or frontier) range from direct control by the state (as at Panlongcheng?), to indirect rule through imperial patronage of local elites (the formative Western Zhou model?), to simple trade (the Indonesian situation?). With the aid of these models, I conclude that political alliances and exchange of prestige items in antiquity in the Indonesian archipelago were probably both intra-regional (among local island polities) as well as inter-regional (between the mainland and the islands). In addition, I postulate that although the exchange was between unequal partners, colonizing was probably not the reason for their interchange. Such conclusions are argued based on the distribution of ancient find-sites and on the archaeological contest of excavated pieces.

 

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JOBS & GRANTS

Historical Abstracts, Santa Barbara, is a reference serial that provides abstracts and citations of historical articles appearing in more than 2,000 journals worldwide. It is increasing its coverage of East Asian-language journals. Asian history specialists proficient in a foreign language (especially Chinese and Japanese) who are interested in abstracting such journals as Shigaku Zasshi, Shiso, Shirin, Beijing Daxue Xuebao, Minguo Dangan, Shijie Lishi and many others are invited to contact Wesley Palmer, Editor, Historical Abstracts, ABC-CLIO, POBox 1911 Santa Barbara, CA 93116-1911 USA; 800-422-2546 ext. 119 (within the USA). (from Asian Studies Newsletter June/July 1991)

Translator available: RU Jing Zong is seeking opportunities to translate articles from Chinese to English. Contact at 828 D Street, Apt. 7, Davis CA 95616 USA. (from Asian Studies Newsletter June/July 1991)

CSCPRC China Program grants
The Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China has announced its 1992-93 "National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China." Several fellowships are available to US scholars:
• The Graduate Program (study in China, application deadline 12 October '91)
• The Research Program (2-24 month research in China, deadline 12 Oct '91)
• The China Conference Travel Grants Program (Ph.D. holders only, apply 2-5 months prior to conference)
And one program supports Chinese students coming to American universities:
• Chinese Fellowships for Scholarly Development (deadline 23 Nov '91)
For further information, write the CSCPRC, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington DC 20418 USA. (from Asian Studies Newsletter June/July 1991)

IIE Fulbright East Asian and Pacific Fellowships
Pre-doctoral fellowships for US citizens' graduate study or research in the academic year 1992-93 are available for Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong in East Asia. Write for brochure "Fulbright and Other Grants for Graduate Study Abroad", 1992-93 from IIE, 809 United Nations Plaza, New York NY 10017 USA. Deadline: 31 Oct 1991. (from Asian Studies Newsletter June/July 1991)

Timelines of Prehistory
A "leading international publisher of illustrated reference books for adults and children" needs a writer of 'theme boxes' on prehistoric and historic China, Korea and Japan-a total of 10,000 words by summer 1992 plus illustration suggestions. Pay is yet uncalculated. If interested, contact Corinne Hall, Timelines Project Editor, Dorling Kindersley Ltd., 9 Henrietta St., Covent Garden, London WC2E 8PS 071-836-5411.

Archaeological Encyclopaedia
The "Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana" has initiated a publication project for an Archaeological Encyclopaedia, and authors are needed for Japanese and Korean topics. The work will appear in several volumes and will be richly illustrated. Interested persons should contact the Far Eastern Consultant for the Encyclopaedia, Prof. Robert Ciarla, at IsMEO, Via Merulana 248 (Palazzo Brancaccio), 00185 Rome, Italy 732616-7000451 for details.

National Science Foundation
The NSF is trying to increase the number of American scientists and engineers who cooperated with Japan. NSF gives awards for long-term research in Japan, short-term visits for collaborative research, US-Japan seminars, state-of-the-art reviews, etc. For further details, obtain the Japan program announcement (NSF 90-144) from Publications Unit, Room 232, NSF, 1800 G Street NW, Washington DC 20550 202-357-3619.  (from Asian Studies Newsletter Sept/Oct 1991)

CCS China Research
The Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan is offering one or more postdoctoral fellowships for next academic year to support research leading to publication in any field of Chinese studies. A stipend of up to US$20,000 and office facilities are provided. Applicants must have their Ph.D. degree by June 1st. An application consists of a curriculum vitae, research proposal, samples of written work, and three letters of recommendation on forms available from CCS. Direct all materials and inquiries to Trudy Bulkley, Administrative Associate, CCS, University of Michigan, 104 Lane Hall, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1290 USA 313-764-6308 or 313-747-1487. Deadline: 15 February 1992. (from Asian Studies Newsletter Sept/Oct 1991)

American Numismatic Society Grants
The annual "Seminar in Numismatics" will be held at the ANS Museum, June 9-August 8, 1992. Each applicant accepted for study will receive a US$2,000 grant and, if funding permits, travel funds. Applicants must have completed at least one year of graduate study in archaeology, art history, history, etc. and areas of study may include ... East Asia. For further information and applications, contact the ANS, Broadway at 155 St., New York NY 10032 USA 212-234-3130. Deadline: 1 March 1992. (from Asian Studies Newsletter Sept/Oct 1991)

Getty Art History Research Grants
The Getty Grant Program is offering a maximum of 15 "Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art and the Humanities" and several "Senior Research Grants" for academic year 1992-3. Postdoctoral fellows must have received their Ph.D. within the last 6 years; senior research grants will only be given to teams of scholars (not exclusively art historians) working collaboratively on a single project. Both grants are open to individuals of any nationality, and they may be used wherever necessary to conduct the research Fur further information and applications forms, contact the Getty Grant Program, 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1000, Santa Monica CA 90401-1455 USA 213-393-4244 FAX 213-451-5570. Deadline: 11 November 1991. (from Asian Studies Newsletter Sept/Oct 1991)

Pre-modern Chinese Cultural Historian
Sought by University of California, Davis in the Department of History. The candidate's current research must be in a period before 1800 with an interest in comparative history. Send applications to Susan Mann, Dept History, Univ California, Davis CA 95616 USA. Deadline: 1 December 1991 to assure consideration. (from Asian Studies Newsletter Sept/Oct 1991)

Japanese Historian
A specialist in any period of Japanese history is sought by the University of California, San Diego. Send applications, with proper supprting materials, to Joseph Esherick, Chair, Search Committee in Japanese History, Dept of History 0104, 9500 Gilman Dr. Applicants who are not US citizens should state their immigration status at the time of applications. Review of applications will begin 1 November 1991 and will continue until the position has been filled. (from Asian Studies Newsletter Sept/Oct 1991)

 

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  1. MUSEUM OF YAYOI CULTURE
    The Osaka Prefecture Museum of Yayoi Culture, the first full-scale museum to be established specializing in the exhibition of artifacts of Yayoi culture, opened in the city of Izumi (south of Osaka) in February 1991. The museum is composed of two stories with basement, providing a total of 4,000 square meters floorspace; located near the Ikegami-Sone Site, one of the largest settlements of the Yayoi period (ca. 300 BC-ca. 300 AD), the facility was completed at a cost of ¥3 billion. Approximately 179 items are exhibited, including Yayoi pottery from various parts of Japan and 18 pieces of pottery and bronzeware on loan from the National Museum of Korea (Seoul). (from The Japan Foundation Newsletter, 18.5/6:13).
     
  2. EARLIEST GARDEN IN JAPAN
    The Mie Prefectural archaeological team, headed by Mr. Y. Yamazawa, has excavated a Y-shaped canal lined with stones which researchers at Nabunken interpret as part of an estate garden. The canal is located very near the famous Ishiyama mounded tomb in Ueno City, which dates between the terminal 4th and early 5th centuries. The canal yielded Furu-type pottery of the early 5th century, thus making the 'garden' predate the Chinese-style gardens at the later palace sites by nearly two centuries. (submitted by T. Yamamoto)
     
  3. PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION OF BUDDHIST IMAGES
    The one-day Percival David Foundation conference on "A Day in Shanxi Province" (see Conference Papers below) was accompanied by Splendid colour photographs of Buddhist images from the monasteries of Shanxi Province, dating from the Tang dynasty onwards, exhibited at the Percival David Foundation and in the School of Oriental and African Studies from 16 July -16 August 1991. A larger selection of the same material was shown simultaneously at the Nationalities Cultural Palace, Beijing and in Hong Kong. The photographs were taken under the auspices of the Buddhist Association of China and the Bureau of Cultural Relics of Shanxi Province, and the exhibition was organized by the Hong Kong Chi Lin Buddhist Library.
     
  4. ASIAN RARE BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE
    Stephen Feldman writes that a cache of Sackler-funded works have been found in a warehouse and are now being sold through his shop, Asian Rare Books, 234 Fifth Avenue (3rd Floor), New York NY 10001 USA ( 718-259-3732; FAX 212-213-6737). Especially notable are:

    Barnard, Noel with D. Frazer (eds.) Early Chinese Art and its Possible Influence in the Pacific Basin (Proceedings of a symposium arranged by the Department of Art History and Archaeology Columbia University, 21-25 August 1967), 1972. 3 vols. (Vol. 1: Ch'u and the Silk Manuscript; Vol. 2: Asia; Vol. 3: Oceania and the Americas). Illustrated, cloth. $75.00 plus postage ($5.00 in USA; $11.00 reg. abroad).

    Ho, Su Chen (1968) Yearbook of Chinese Archaeology 1956 (Summaries in English of the Chinese Archaeological Journals for that year), cloth. $22.50 plus postage ($3.00 in USA; $8.00 reg. abroad).
     
  5. PREHISTORIC MONGOLOID DISPERSALS PROJECT
    1992 will be the last year of this 4-year project funded by The Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. It involves the cooperation of 43 institutions (universities, museums, and research institutes) and a total of 85 specialists from archaeology, ethnology, physical anthropology, human genetics, geomorphology, isotope sciences and computer sciences. The 1990 conference, "The Evolution and Dispersal of Modern Humans in Asia" (see Conference section in EAANnouncements 1 and 2) marked the mid-point of the project and the papers are now being edited for publication. A quarterly newsletter, Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals, is also being produced for the duration of the project. Most of the volumes are in Japanese, but No. 7, Special Issue 1990, consisted of four papers in English which had been presented at symposia within the Project:
    C. M. Aikens: From Asia to America: the first peopling of the New World
    Charles E. Schweger: The full-glacial ecosystem of Beringia
    W.R. Powers: The peoples of Eastern Beringia
    Merritt Ruhlen: Phylogenetic relations of native American languages
    Information on the Project can be obtained from Dr. Takeru AKAZAWA, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 Japan.
     
  6. SILK ROAD ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
    A new journal of the above title has been established by the Institute of Silk Road Studies in Kamakura, Japan. All papers are to be submitted in English, and an honorarium of $1,000 (one thousand) will be paid for papers selected for publication. The Hirayama Ikuo Prize ($10,000) will be awarded to the "most interesting article". The deadline for submission is the end of August every year. Contact the Editor-in-Chief, Mr. Katsumi TANABE for a detailed style sheet at The Ancient Orient Museum, 3-1-4 Higashi-ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170 Japan ( 03-3989-3491; FAX 03-3590-3266).
     
  7. THE KROGER COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL PORCELAINS
    This is a permanent exhibit at the Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, containing ceramic wares of Chinese origin dating from the Neolithic period to the end of the Qing dynasty. It includes over 500 rare and representative pieces showing the full spectrum of the chronology of Chinese ceramics. (from Asian Studies Newsletter June/July 1991)
     
  8. ARTS OF CHINA
    This exhibit continues indefinitely at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. It consists of 228 works of art dating from the fourth millennium BC into the 20th century, including ancient ritual jades and bronzes, Buddhist sculpture and wall paintings, glass, lacquer and furniture. (from Asian Studies Newsletter June/July 1991)
     
  9. SITE DISCOVERY IN THE OGASAWARA ISLANDS
    After years of searching and several false alarms (including Jomon sherds in soil brought from the mainland!), a site has finally been discovered in the Ogasawara (or Bonin) Islands. The site was found in July this year on Kita Iwojima Island, which is over 1300 km south of Tokyo although still administratively part of Tokyo Metropolis. This island is presently uninhabited, as it was when it was 'discovered' in the 16th century. According to newspaper reports, the site consists of clusters of large stones and may be ritual in nature. Artifacts were numerous and include both lithics and pottery. No date is available for the site, which does not bear clear relations with known Japanese cultures. Possible links with Micronesia were suggested in the newspapers, but ODA Shizuo (personal communication) notes that the pottery is not similar to that of the Marianas. Further details of this site will be given to EAAN members when available. (Submitted by Mark Hudson)
     
  10. SINO-AMERICAN FIELD SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
    Sponsored by Xian Jiaotong University, Xian (Shaanxi) China and the Fudan Museum Foundation (USA) and co-sponsored by the Xian Branch of the Institute of Archaeology CASS and the Archaeological Institue of Shaanxi Province, the Sino-American Field School of Archaeology conducted its first excavation practicum between July 2 and August 7, 1991. The purposes of the School are to create sinologists among present and future generations of archaeologists and to sponsor archaeological methodology exchanges.

    The Second Annual Summer Archaeological Practicum for 1992, at Xian Jiaotong University, is now open for application. Co-sponsorship of the School also is open for interested colleges, universities and museums. For details contact Dr. Alfonz Lengyel, Fudan Museum Foundation, 1522 Schoolhouse Road, Ambler PA 19002 USA, 215-699-6448.
     
  11. POSTSCRIPT TO THE INTERNATIONAL SILK ROAD SYMPOSIUM
    President of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Askarov told the symposium that odds and ends of silk fabrics were discovered in 25 tombs in the south of Uzbekistan. They are thought to have been made as long ago as 1500 BC. This shows, he said, that a trade route between China and Central Asia had existed even before Zhang Qian's expedition to the western regions. (from FBIS0CHI-90-164).
     
  12. KOREAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS VISIT JIAN KOGURYO REMAINS
    As part of a conference on the theme of "Northeast Asia in the 4th century" held in Changchun, China, 25-27 May 1991, North and South Korean archaeologists were given an opportunity by Chinese authorities to undertake their first joint investigation of Koguryo relics in the Jian region of Manchuria. Koguryo (37 BC-668 AD [traditional dates]), whose territory stretched over Manchuria, was one of the ancient kingdoms of Korea and Jian was its capital city from the 4th to 6th centuries.

    Korean scholars, accompanied by their Chinese and Japanese counterparts, visited castle remains and tombs such as Changgunchong, Kakjeochong and Muyongchong, whose murals are highly regarded for their archeological significance and artistic achievement. They exchanged opinions on the construction period of the tombs and the content of the epitaph of King Kwanggaeto, the key to the study of Northeast Asia's ancient history. (from ICSK Newsletter June 1991)
     
  13. ARTIFACTS FROM MESOLITHIC AGE RECENTLY DISCOVERED
    Some 500 artifacts that date from 12,000 to 8,000 BC, the period of the Mesolithic Age, have been discovered in Hongchon-gun, Kangwon-do by a Kangwon University excavation team. The stone relics, mostly small-size cutters, arrowheads, grinders and choppers made of obsidian, quartz and crystal, confirm the existence of a Mesolithic Age industry in Korea, contradicting the conventional view that the Neolithic culture on the Korean Peninsula had been brought in from outside. (from ICSK Newsletter June '91)
     
  14. REPATRIATION OF CHOSON PERIOD GARMENTS
    79 garments and 73 ornaments belonging to the last Crown Prince Yi Un and his wife Princess Pang-ja of the Choson Kingdom are to be returned to Korea soon, after 35 years in the custody of the Tokyo National Museum. The items which will be repatriated according to an agreement signed on Apr. 15 between Korean Ambassador to Japan, OH Chae-hi and Japanese Foreign Minister, Taro NAKAYAMA, will be added to the permanent collection of the Court Relics Hall, which will open at Toksu Palace around the end of October this year. (from ICSK Newlsetter June 1991)
     
  15. GRANTS RECEIVED

    Korean Studies ICSK Fellowship Recipient
    HUANG Kuan-ch'ung (Research Fellow, Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica, PRC): A Comparative Study on Chinese & Korean Mountain Castles. (Apr 16-June 15).

    National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Project
    CHANG Kwang-chih (Harvard University): Archaeological Investigation of Early Shang Civilization in China (1991-92).
     
  16. DIRECTORY OF CHINA SCHOLARS
    A directory of persons connected with the study of the anthropology, archaeology or sociolinguistics of Chinese society is being compiled by Jean DeBernardi at the Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr PA 19010-2899 USA 215-526-5030, FAX 215-526-7870. Contact her to contribute or obtain further information.
     
  17. FROM MITTEILUNGSBLATT 22 (see Newsletter exchange 6, above)
    Dr. Ladislav Kesner, Chief Curator and Head of the Department of Asian Arts at the Prague National Gallery, was named Research Star at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley (October 1989-August 1990) under a grant from the Fulbright Foundation. His field is ancient Chinese art and Chinese sculpture, and while at Berkeley, he gave lectures at Stanford and UC Berkeley on "Portrait aspects and social functions in Chinese tomb ceramic sculpture."

    The Institut für Indische Philologie und Kunstgeschichte at Freie Universität, Berlin, is offering a course on "Archäeologie und kunst des frühen Buddhismus" in SS 1991. At the Kunsthistorisches Institut, University of Heidelberg, lectures and seminars are being offered respectively on "Grabkunst und frühe buddhistische Kunst in Korea" and "Reliquien und Reliquien-schreine in China, Korea und Japan." And at the Institut für Völkerkunde und Afrikanistik at the Universität München, an advanced seminar on "Die Ordos-Sammlung im Staatlichen Museum für Völkerkunde München" will be given in SS 1991; "Kunst und Archäologie Chinas" can also be studied at the Instutut für Ostasienkunde-Sinologie at the Universität München. At the Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Universität Zürich, a course on "Shang und Zhou: Die Kunst im Alten China von den Anfängen bis zum 3.Jh.v.Chr." is being offered in WS 1991-92.

    Museums with East Asian (but not necessarily archaeological) collections listed are: BERLIN: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen Zu, Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde; BREMEN: Übersee-museum; DRESDEN: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen; DÜSSELDORF: Hetjens-museum, Kunstmuseum; FRANKFURT: Museum für Kunsthandwerk; FREIBURG: Museum für völderkunde; HAMBURG: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde; HANNOVER: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum; HEIDELBERG: Völkerkundemuseum der Josephine und Eduard von Portheim-Stiftung; HILDESHEIM: Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum; KASSEL: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen; Köln: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Lackmuseum Basf Farben und Lacke Ag, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Museum für Völkerkunde; KREFELD: Deutsches Textilmuseum; MANNHEIM: Reiss-Museum; München: Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; STUTTGART: Linden-Museum Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde; BAD WILDUNGEN: Asien-Museum.

    Among the private collections of East Asian art objects listed, the following two are notable:

    012....Chinesische Jade vom Neolithikum bis ins 18. J., mit Schwerpunkt auf den älteren Epochen. Reiche Bibliothek zu diesem Spezialgebiet. Vergleichssammlung von Jadearbeiten aus anderen Kulturen. Besichtigung nach telefonischer Vereinbarung möglich. Adresse:....Chiffre 012 (Rheinland)
    Abroad....Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton UK. Curator: Regina Krahl (109 Blenheim Crescent, London W11 2EQ 071-727-3464).
     
  18. INSCRIBED JAPANESE BRONZE FROM 14TH-CENTURY LONDON
    A tiny fragment of bronze inscribed with at least three characters, the middle one of which is fuji meaning 'wisteria', has been identified from the Thames Exchange site which finished excavation in 1989. This Thames-side excavation was conducted by the Museum of London for the Japanese developer, Kumagai Gumi. The fragment, measuring ca. 1 x 2 cm and 4 mm in thickness, was found with other metal work by metal detector in 1988, but the inscription was only discovered during cleaning early this year. The Chinese character was engraved with a v-shaped tool in the Japanese-style of calligraphy called shoho, popular prior to the Medieval period. The top of the fragment is completely flat for the inscription, but the underneath side is very gently curved, and it is speculated to have come from a bell of ca. 50 cm diametre.
    The bronze fragment occurred in a sealed 14th-century rubbish tip which was used as fill to extend the water front. Since this predates direct European contact with Japan through either the Dutch or Portuguese, it is speculated that the original object was first traded to China, perhaps through a Wako (pirate) port and then transmitted to Europe indirectly.
     
  19. ANCIENT JAPAN EXHIBITION
    An exhibition of ancient Japanese artefacts is being planned for the autumn of 1992 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. 250 objects of stone, clay, wood, lacquer, bronze and gold will be shown, dating "from as early as 200,000 B.C. through the 7th century A.D." (from the Asian Studies Newsletter Sept/Oct 1991)

 

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CONFERENCE CALENDAR

Oct '91: International Conference on Rock Art, Ningxia.

Nov 23-27' 91: International Symposium on Prehistoric Culture in South China, Fengkai County, Guangdong Province, PRChina. For details write to Shang Zhitan, curator of Anthropological Museum, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, PRChina.

Dec 2-6 '91: 4th International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main. [See details in EAANnouncements 3]

Dec 16-19 '91: Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG), Univ of Leicester.
This is Britain's largest international archaeology conference. It aims to bring together all of those interested in the theoretical underpinnings of archaeology, from all branches of the discipline. Session proposals due 30 June, Individual papers proposals due 1 Oct, 1991. Send proposal and 200 word abstract to The Convenor, TAG 1991, Dept of Archaeology, Univ of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH UK.

Dec '91 or Jan '92: Archaeological Colloquium, Sino-American Field School of Archaeology, Xian. Xian Jiaotong University and the Fudan Museum Foundation with the co-sponsorship of the Archaeological Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Xian Branch and the Archaeological Institute of Shaanxi Province, Xian China invite American experts in Archaeology and its related sciences (including conservation and restoration) to attend in its first one week of Archaeological Colloquium. The purpose of the colloquium is to exchange methodology and prepare a long range of collaboration with foreign colleagues. For more details contact Dr. Alfonz Lengyel, Fudan Museum Foundation, 1522 Schoolhouse Road, Ambler PA 19002 USA 215-699-6448.

Jan '92: Society for Historic Archaeology meetings, Jamaica.
1992: 3rd International Congress of Human Paleontology, Israel

Apr 2-5 '92: Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Washington D.C. [See call for amEAAN meeting participation in EAAN Activities section above] Panels or roundtables of interest to EAAN members: "History, heaven and the gods: recreating Japan in the 14th century," "Cultural identity in the Liao, Jin, Xi Xia and Bohai kingdoms," "Prehistoric precedents for Souytheast Asian local cultural statements," and "Redating Xiongnu culture."

May 8-12 '92: Society for American Archaeologists (SAA), Pittsburgh

Jul or Aug '92: The Archaeological Remains of Inner Mongolia, 16th c. BC-14th c. AD, Hohhot. Sponsored by the Inner Mongolia Cultural Relics and Archaeological Research Institute, this will be a sequel to the Pittsburgh Workshop [see EAANnouncements 4], dealing with the various northern minority tribes starting with the finds at Zhukaigou and emphasising the Beidi, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Khitan (Liao) and Mongols. The fee for the conference will be US $100 plus room & board at ca. $50/day. For details, contact Ms. Emma C. Bunker, 1451 Cottonwood Ave., Wheatland, WY 82201 USA, FAX (307) 322-3333. Group travel might be arranged from Beijing, stopping to see the Shanrong excavations in Yanqing.

Aug 20-30 '92: International Symposium on Mawangdui Han Tombs, Changsha. Write to Mr. GAO Zhixi, 3 Dong Feng Road, Changsha, Hunan PRChina 0731-23866 FAX 0731-447649 with your paper proposal and include your name, nationality, sex, date of birth, passport no., post, professional title, tel, unit, paper topic, other items, name of companion and their sex.

Aug 24-Sept 3'92: 29th International Geological Congress, Kyoto. Call for papers! A one-day session on "Human dispersals during the Quaternary period" will be held as part of this conference. Its focus will be the theoretical aspects of human dispersal and migration across a wide geographic and chronological range. Proposals for papers are invited but intending participants should be aware that the IGC can offer no funding of any sort. The session Convenors are Takeru AKAZAWA and Mark Hudson, to whom all enquiries should be directed at the University Museum, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.

Sept 13-17 '92: European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Paris. [See call for eurEAAN panel participation under EAAN Activities above]

Sept 24-25 '92: Japanese Archaeology in the Protohistoric and Early Historic Periods (3-6 c.): Yamato and its relations with surrounding populations, Bonn. Organised by the Japanologisches Seminar der Universität Bonn and supported by the KAVA of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institute Bonn. Scholars and students who are interested in the topic are welcome to contact Ms. Maria Warlies, Japanologisches Seminar der Universität Bonn, Regina Pacis Weg 7, 5300 Bonn 1 Germany 0228-737224, FAX 0228-737020.

Sept 29 - Oct 4 '92: 4th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Brussels. (Formerly the Association of SEA Archaeologists in Western Europe). Registration fee 50,000 lit. (ca., £25 or US $40); students half price. For further details, contact by Nov 30 '91 Dr. Roberto Ciarla, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Via Merulana 248, Rome 00185 Italy 0039-6-732741, FAX 0039-6-4873238, Telex 624163 ISMEO I.

Nov 16-21 '92: Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals, University of Tokyo. Discussion will center on four main geographical areas: East Asia, Alaska and Siberia, the Americas, and the Pacific. The 45 invited speakers include anthropologists, archaeologists, geneticists and linguists. Two EAAN members will be giving presentations: Peter Bellwood on "Mongoloid dispersals into Oceania: prehistoric and linguistic evidence for the Southeast Asian connection" and John Olsen on "The prehistory of the Taklaman desert, Xinjiang, Northwest China". Further details of the conference can be obtained from Professor Takeru AKAZAWA, The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.

Nov '92: 1992 International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics (ISAC), Shanghai. Contact Prof. Li Jiazhi, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Academia Sinica, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, PRChina

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Pacific Science Congress, Honolulu, May 27-2 June '91.
Co-chaired by Dr. S.H. Sohmer, Research and Scholarly Studies, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii USA. Papers of concern were:

Panel: "Identifying ethnic minorities: scientific classification or cultural policy," chaired by David Wu, East-West Center, Univ. Hawaii:
Hatanaka, S.: The Daur and Man peoples in northeast China
Lee, K.K.: Ethnic identity of Koreans in Japan
Warren, W.H.: Identifying the presence of ethnic minorities--the case of Koreans in Japan
Yamamoto, M.: Urbanization of the chief system--multiplication and role-differentitiation of titles in western Samoa
Chace, P.G.: Ethnicity and science--an overview of approaches

Panel: "Physical and cultural relationships of the peoples in Asia and the Pacific Basin," chaired by Y. Sinoto, Bishop Museum, Univ Hawaii
Goto, A.: Early oceanic fishing technology and its affinity with Asia
Hanihara, T.: Population history in East Asia and the Pacific as viewed from dental and craniofacial morphology
Hanihara, K.: The affinities of Jomonese on the basis of cranial measurements
Ishida, H. & Dodo, Y.: Anthropological position of the Pacific people as viewed from cranial nonmetric variation
Koshimizu, S.: Methods of obsidian sourcing and discerning prehistoric routes in Japan and Sakhalin

Panel, "Paleoclimate and prehistory of the lowland tropics," chaired by T. Rambo, East-West Center, Univ Hawaii.

Titles of the papers were not given in the formal programme.
 

A Day in Shanxi Province, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 23 July 1991, London.
This one-day conference was accompanied by an photographic exhibition [see Noteworthies No. 3 above]

Sun, J.: Shanxi Province-geography and customs
Whitfield, R.: Buddhist Sculpture in Shanxi-introduction to the exhibition
Ho, P.P.: The architecture of Buddhist monasteries on Mt. Wutai
Whitfield, R.: The wall paintings of Shanxi Province
Paludan, A.: The sculptural tradition in northern China alive today
 

3rd International Conference on the Evolution of the East Asian Environment, 23-26 July 1991, Kunming
Jointly sponsored by the Academia Sinica and the Centre of Asian Studies of the University of Hong Kong, the conference included sessions on geology and geochronology, paleoclimatology, paleobotany, paleozoology and paleoanthropology. In addition, there was a special symposium on "The Biogeography of the Tibetan Plateau and Adjacent Regions."
 

 A Conference on Archaeological Sciences, 2-4 Sept 1991,York University, UK
Nishimura, Y.: Poster session Archaeological site 'plan' making by earth radar-a second report
 

2nd International Conference on Ancient Bronze Drums and Bronze Cultures in Southern China and Southeast Asia, 16-20 Oct 1991, Guangxi
Linduff, K.M.: Indonesia and her relations with the mainland-client, colony or trade partner? [see abstract in Reviews & Reports section above]
 

Society for Historic Archaeology meetings, January 1992, Jamaica
Bleed, P.: Historic archaeology in Japan
 

Society for American Archaeology, May 8-12 '92, Pittsburgh
Bleed, P.: Risk and cost in Japanese microcore technology

At the end of the Pleistocene, mobile hunting groups throughout Japan used wedge-shaped cores to produce microblades. Techniques involved in making and using these cores have been reconstructed in minute detail, and their age and distribution are well documented. To address the role cores and microblades played in terminal paleolithic economy, this paper used event tree analysis to identify patterns of risk in the production of microblade cores at three terminal Japanese paleolithic sites. This analysis amplifies typological descriptions of the cores and shows that microcore production was clearly carried out in the context of broader stone-use strategies. Microcores were clearly produced in stages and at different sites. Their analysis therefore also illuminates broader patterns of cost management and mobility of the period.

 

AAA (American Anthropological Association), Nov 1991, Chicago
Underhill, Anne: Craft specialization, power, and inequality

 

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ASIAN SCHOLARS ABROAD:


Prof. Hiroshi KANASEKI and Mr. Masaaki OKITA, of the Tenri University and Sankokan Museum in Nara, and Prof. H. Ogawa of Keio University in Tokyo, led an excavation team of 50 persons from several Japanese universities on a cooperative project with Tel Aviv University at an Iron Age site in the Golan Heights from July 17-18 Aug. This was the second of three field seasons planned for the project.

Mr. Izumi NIIRO, lecturer in archaeology at Okayama University is on leave to study the British Iron Age at Southampton University, May '91-Mar '92.

Mr. Tadanao YAMAMOTO, Excavation director at the Fujiwara Palace site, Nara, is touring England, Holland, Germany and Sweden this autumn for two months (24 Sept-18 Nov). He is mainly interested in excavation technology as practiced in the different countries. In August, he was part of a Japanese team which excavated kurgan burials in the Beltek Plateau of Southern Siberia, the second field season of the project.

Prof. Takayasu HIGUCHI, Director of the Kashiwara Archaeological Research Institute, Nara conducted a second season of work at Palmyra, Syria in August and September 1991. The project will continue next year.

 

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JOURNAL UPDATES

This new section to the EAANnouncements will reproduce the Table of Contents pages of select East Asian archaeology journals. Those that have English listings are preferred, so that non-readers of the language can keep tabs on the contents. If EAANmembers wish to have specific journals represented here, please contact the 'nouncements editor.

In this first installment, five journals are represented:

 

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