BOOKS

            Chengdu Pingyuan Guoji Kaogu Diaochadui 成都平原国际考古调查队

In Prep  Chengdu Pingyuan Kaogu Diaocha—2005-2010 nian chengguo成都平原考古调查  -- 2005-2010年成果 [The Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey – Results from the 2005-2010 Seasons]. Beijing: Kexue chubanshe.

Liviu Giosan, Dorian Q. Fuller, Kathleen Nicoll, Rowan K. Flad, Peter D. Clift, editors

In Prep  Climates Landscapes and Civilizations. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union. (Proposed)

Rowan Flad and Pochan Chen

In Prep  Ancient Central China: An Archaeological Study of Centers and Peripheries along the Yangzi River. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Under contract)

Rowan Flad

2011     Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China: An archaeological investigation of specialization in China’s Three Gorges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zachary X. Hruby and Rowan K. Flad, editors

2007     Rethinking Craft Specialization in Complex Societies: Archaeological Analyses of the Social Meaning of Production.  Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 17. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.

            Yang Hu, Liu Guoxiang, and Tang Chung, editors (English Language editing by Rowan Flad)

2006     Yuqi qiyuan tansuo – Xinglongwa yuqi yanjiu yu tulu 玉器起源探索- 興隆洼玉器研究與圖錄 [The origins of Chinese jade culture – Xinglongwa jades research and catalogue]. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.

                       

 

ARTICLES IN PEER-REFEREED JOURNALS / SERIES

Single Author

            Rowan Flad

2010     Zhuanye hua shengchan: Ruogan jiben wenti yi ji Zhongba zhiyan de luntan 专业化生产:若干基本问题以及中坝制盐的讨论 (Specialization and Production: General Issues and a Discussion of Salt Manufacture at Zhongba). Nanfang minzu kaogu 南方民族考古 [Southern ethnoarchaeology] 6:11-40.

2008     Divination and Power: A Multi-regional View of the Development of Oracle Bone Divination in Early China.  Current Anthropology 49(3): 403-437.

2007     Rethinking Specialization in the Context of Salt Production in Prehistoric Sichuan.   In Rethinking “Specialized” Production: Archaeological Analyses of the Social Meaning of Manufacture. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 17, edited by Zachary X. Hruby and Rowan K. Flad, pp. 107-128. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2005     Zooarchaeology at Zhongba – Evaluating Fish and Meat-Salting in the Prehistoric Three Gorges, China.  Journal of Field Archaeology 30 (3): 231-253.

2001     Ritual or Structure? Analysis of Burial Elaboration at Dadianzi, Inner Mongolia.

Journal of East Asian Archaeology 3 (3-4): 23-52.

 

First Author

Rowan Flad, Li Shuicheng, Wu Xiaohong, and Zhao Zhijun

2010     Early wheat at Donghuishan. Results from new studies in the Hexi Corridor. The Holocene 20(6):955-965.

Chengdu Pingyuan Guoji Kaogu Diaochadui 成都平原国际考古调查队 [傅罗文 (Rowan K. Flad); 江章华; 关玉琳 (Gwen Bennett; 提莫西郝思利(Tim Horsley); 陈伯桢; 贾什莱特 (Josh Wright)]

2010     Chengdu pingyuan quyu kaogu diaocha (2005-2007) 成都平原区域考古调查 (2005-2007) (2005-2007 archaeological survey in the Chengdu Plain). Nanfang minzu kaogu 南方民族考古 [Southern ethnoarchaeology] 6: 255-278.

Rowan Flad 傅羅文, Yuan Jing 袁靖 and Li Shuicheng 李水城

2009     Zhongguo xibei diqu zuizao dongwu xunhua de dongwu kaoguxue ziliao 中國西北地區最早動物馴化的動物考古學資料 (Zooarchaeological Evidence for the earliest Animal Domestication in Northwest China).  Kaogu 考古 [Archaeology] 2009(5): 80-86.

Rowan Flad, Wu Xiaohong, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Li Shuicheng, Sun Zhibin and Pochan Chen

2009     Radiocarbon Dates and Technological Change in Salt Production at the Site of Zhongba in the Three Gorges, China.  Asian Perspectives 48(1): 148-180.

Rowan Flad, Yuan Jing and Li Shuicheng

2007     Zooarchaeological Evidence for Animal Domestication in Northwest China.  In Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China, edited by David B. Madsen, Chen FaHu and Gao Xing, pp. 163-199. Developments in Quaternary Science, Vol. 9. Amsterdam: Elsevier Press.

Rowan Flad and Zachary X. Hruby

2007     "Specialized" Production in Archaeological Contexts: Rethinking Specialization, the Social Value of Products, and the Practice of Production.  In Rethinking “Specialized” Production: Archaeological Analyses of the Social Meaning of Manufacture. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 17, edited by Zachary X. Hruby and Rowan K. Flad, pp. 1-19. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Rowan Flad 傅羅文 and Yuan Jing 袁靖

2006     Sanxia diqu Zhongba yizhi dongwu kaoguxue de chubu yanjiu 三峽地區中壩遺址動物考古學的初步研究 (Preliminary research on the Zooarchaeology of the site of Zhongba in the Three Gorges). Kaogu 考古(Archaeology) 2006 (1): 79-88.

Rowan Flad, Jiping Zhu, Changsui Wang, Pochan Chen, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Zhibin Sun, Shuicheng Li

2005     Archaeological and Chemical Evidence for Early Salt Production in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (35): 12618-12622. (August 30, 2005).

 

Second Author / Contributor

Clift, Peter D., Rowan Flad, Dorian Q. Fuller, and Liviu Giosan

2011     Studying the Relationship Between Past People and Their Environments: AGU Chapman Conference on Climates, Past Landscapes, and Civilizations; Santa Fe, New Mexico, 21–25 March 2011. EOS 92(24): 205.

Yuan Jing, Rowan Flad, and Luo Yunbing

2008     Meat Acquisition Patterns in the Neolithic Yangzi River Valley, China.  Antiquity 82: 351-366.

Zhu Cheng, Ma Chunmei, Ouyang Jie, Li Zhongxuan, Yin Qian, Sun Zhibin, Huang Yunping, Rowan K. Flad, Li Lan, and Li Yumei

2008     Animal Diversities and characteristics of environmental change revealed by skeletons unearthed at Zhongba site of Chongqing City, China. Chinese Science Bulletin 53, Supp. 1: 74-86

Wu Xiaohong 吴小红, Rowan Flad 付罗文, Li Shuicheng 李水城, Lothar von Falkenhausen 罗泰, Sun Zhibin  孙志彬, Chen Pochan 陈伯桢

2007     Chongqing Zhong Xian Zhongba yizhi de tanshisi niandai 重庆中县中坝遗址的碳十四年代 (Preliminary Report on the Radiocarbon dates from the site of Zhongba). Kaogu考古 2007(7): 656-667.

Zachary X. Hruby, Rowan K Flad, John E. Clark, Takeshi Inomata, and Heather M.-L. Miller

2007     On “Rethinking” Craft Specialization: Responses by the Authors.  In Rethinking “Specialized” Production: Archaeological Analyses of the Social Meaning of Manufacture. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 17, edited by Zachary X. Hruby and Rowan K. Flad, pp. 181-192. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Yuan Jing and Rowan Flad

2005     New Zooarchaeological Evidence for Changes in Shang Dynasty Animal Sacrifice. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 24 (3): 252-270. (May 13, 2005).

Yuan Jing and Rowan Flad

2003     Two Issues Concerning Ancient Domesticated Horses in China. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 75: 111-127.

Yuan Jing and Rowan Flad

2002     Pig Domestication in Ancient China. Antiquity 76 (293): 724-732.

 

ARTICLES / CHAPTERS WITH EDITORIAL COMMITTEE REVIEW

Single Author

Rowan Flad

2008     Zhenren: Guanyu zao qi Zhongguo shi zhuo zhanbu qiyuan yu fazhan de yixie sikao 贞人:关于早期中国施灼占卜起源与发展的一些思考 (Divine Specialists: Some Thoughts on the Origins and Development of Pyromantic Divination in Early China).  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Early Chinese Civilization, edited by Jing Zhichun and Ken-ichi Takashima.

2003     Xin Jiniya, Eganda ji Xi Luoma diguo de yanye shengchan, jiaohuan ji xiaofei – Chongqing diqu xian Qin shiqi yanye shengchan de bijiao yanjiu 新幾內亞、 烏干達及西羅馬帝國的 鹽業生產、交換及消費重慶地區先秦時期鹽業生產的比較研究 (Salt Production, Exchange, and Consumption in New Guinea, Uganda, and the Western Roman Empire – Comparative Examples for Contemplating Pre-Qin Salt Production in Chongqing). Yanyeshi yanjiu 鹽業史研究  (Research on Salt Production History) 2003 (1): 95-104.

 

First Author

Rowan Flad, Jiping Zhu, Changsui Wang, Pochan Chen, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Zhibin Sun, Shuicheng Li

2006     Zhongguo zaoqi yanye shengchan de kaogu he huaxue zhengju 中國早期鹽業生產的考古和化學證據 (Archaeological and Chemical evidence for early salt production in China). In  Kaogu fajue yu lishi fuyuan 考古發掘與歷史復原 [Recovering archaeological excavation and history], edited by Chen Xingcan and Michela Bussotti. Faguo Hanxue 法國漢學 [French Sinology]  11: 23-35.

Rowan Flad and Pochan Chen

2006     The Archaeology of the Sichuan Basin and Surrounding Areas during the Neolithic Period. In Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Preliminary Studies, Vol. 1, ed. by Li Shuicheng and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. 183-259. Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe.

 

Contributor

Department of Archaeology, Peking University; Institute of Archaeology, UCLA; Chengdu Municipal Institute of Archaeology; Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama

2006     Report on the Preliminary Field Season in 1999. In Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Preliminary Studies, Vol. 1, ed. by Li Shuicheng and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. 31-113. Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe.

Yuan Jing and Rowan Flad

2006     Research on Early Horse Domestication in China.  In Equids in Time and Space, ed. by Marjan Mashkour, pp. 124-131. Oxford: Oxbow.

 

BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

            Rowan Flad

2010     Archaeology in China’s Three Gorges. For World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways through time, by Michael Chazan, pp. 326-327. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.

2009     Comment on Rod Campbell’s “Networks and Boundaries Approach to Early Complex Polities: the Late Shang Case." Current Anthropology 50(6):840-841.

2009     Archaeology in Central and Southwest China: Travels in Guizhou. Symbols Spring, 2009:16-20.

2008     New Research Exploring the Origins of Sanxingdui. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2008: 30-31.

2007     Review: Excavating Asian History: Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology and History, edited by Norman Yoffee and Bradley L. Crowell. Journal of Asian Studies 66(4): 1105-1107.

2007     Xinglongwa Jades and the Genesis of Value in Northeast China. In Yuqi qiyuan tansuo – Xinglongwa yuqi yanjiu yu tulu 玉器起源探索- 興隆洼玉器研究與圖錄 [The origins of Chinese jade culture –Xinglongwa jades research and catalogue], edited by Deng Cong and Liu Guoxiang, pp. 224-234. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.

2006     Review: Archaeology of Asia, edited by Miriam Stark. American Anthropologist 108 (4): 923-924.

 

Horsley, T.J. Flad, R.K., Bennett, G.P., Li, S., Jiang, Zh. and Chen, P.

2009     Investigating ancient landscapes and settlement patterns in the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan, China. Extended abstract in ArcheoSciences, revue d’archéométrie, supplément 33: 187-190.

 

Li Shuicheng and Rowan Flad

2007     Zhongguo de yanye kaogu ji qi qianli 中國的鹽業考古及其潛力 (Salt archaeology and its potential in China). In Shijie wenhua de dongya 世界文化的東亞視角 [East Asia’s View on World Culture], pp. 393-403. Beijing: Peking University Press.

 

Tom Wake and Rowan Flad

1999     Identification and Analysis of Vertebrate Faunal Remains from CA-RIV-1974,                                       Riverside Co., California.  Report Submitted to CRM Associates, Riverside, CA.

 

SUBMITTED / UNDER REVIEW

            Rowan Flad

n.d.       Hexi zoulang shiqian kaogu diaocha faxian de dongwu guge 河西走廊史前考古调查发现的动物骨骼 (Animal Bones from the survey of prehistoric sites in the Hexi Corridor). For Ganguya mudi 干骨崖墓地 [The Ganguya Cemetery], by Li Shuicheng, pp. TBD. Beijing: Kexue chubanshe.

n.d.       The Sichuan Basin. For A Companion to Chinese Archaeology, ed. by Anne Underhill, pp. TBD. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

n.d.       Bronze, Jade, Gold, and Ivory: Valuable Objects in Ancient Sichuan. For The Construction of Value in the Ancient World, ed. by John Papadopoulos and Gary Urton, pp. TBD. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.

n.d.       Review of Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China: Archaeological Perspectives on Identity Formation and Economic Change during the First Millennium BCE, by Gideon Shelach. Asian Perspectives TBD.

n.d.       The Oracle Bones of Zhongba: Divination at an Early Salt Production Site. For Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Studies of Zhongba, Vol. 3, ed. by Li Shuicheng and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. TBD. Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe.

n.d.       Animal Exploitation at Zhongba during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. For Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Studies of Zhongba, Vol. 3, ed. by Li Shuicheng and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. TBD. Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe.

 

Rowan Flad, Timothy Horsley, Jade D’alpoim Guedes, He Kunyu, Gwen Bennett, Li Shuicheng and Jiang Zhanghua

n.d.       Survey, Excavation and Geophysics at Songjiaheba – A Small Bronze Age Site in the Chengdu Plain. Asian Perspectives

 

Chengdu Pingyuan Guoji Kaogu Diaochadui 成都平原国际考古调查队

n.d.       Songjiaheba – Chengdu Pingyuan qingtong shidai xiaoxing juluo de tianye diaocha, fajue ji diqiu wuli kantan 宋家河坝──成都平原青铜时代小型聚落的田野调查,发掘及地球物理勘探 (Songjiaheba -  Survey, geophyiscs and excavation at a small-scale Bronze Age settlement in the Chengdu Plain). For Sichuan wenwu 四川文物 [Cultural relics of Sichuan].

 

 

Zhao Zhijun and Rowan Flad

n.d.       Report on the Floatation Results from the Zhongba Site in Chongqing. For Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Preliminary Studies, Vol. 3, ed. by Li Shuicheng and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. TBD. Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe.

 

THESES

Rowan Flad

2004     Specialized Salt Production and Changing Social Structure at the Prehistoric Site of Zhongba in the Eastern Sichuan Basin, China. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles - Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology.

1998     Honoring the Dead or the Living? Burial Practices and the use of Animal                           Remains at the Cemetery Site of Dadianzi, Inner Mongolia, China.  M.A. Thesis,                  University of California, Los Angeles - Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology.

           

TRANSLATIONS

Shandong Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Peking University Center for Chinese Archaeology, Cultural Bureau of Shouguang City, Shandong Province

2011     The 2008 excavations at the salt production site of Shuangwangcheng in Shouguang City, Shandong. Chinese Archaeology11:TBD

Shandong University Department of Archaeology, Shandong Provincial Institute of Archaeology, and Dongying City Museum of History

2011     The Western Zhou Salt Production Site of Nanheya in Dongying City, Shandong. Chinese Archaeology11:TBD

Henan Xinzhai Archaeological Team, Institute of Archaeology, CASS and Zhengzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology

2010     2002 excavations on the Xinzhai site in Xinmi City, Henan. Chinese Archaeology 10:99-105.

Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Research Center for Cultural Heritage and Archaeology, Northwest University

2010     The Qijia-culture cemetery at Mogou in Lintan, Gansu. Chinese Archaeology 10:15-23.

Qian Yaopeng, Zhu Yunyun, Mao Ruilin, Xie Yan

2010     A brief discussion on joint burial in Mogou Cemeter of the Qijia culture. Chinese Archaeology 10:158-163.

Wang Jianhua

2010.    A study into the gender composition of the population in the prehistoric Middle and Lower reaches of the Yellow River valley. Chinese Archaeology 10:143-152

Qian Yaopeng

2009     On the Traces of Disasters and the Building near the Square in the Lajia Settlement. Chinese Archaeology 9:164-169.

Yuan Jing

2008     The origins and development of animal domestication in China. Chinese Archaeology 8:1-7.

Wang Jianhua

2008     Research on the prehistoric population age structure in the Middle and Lower reaches of the Yellow River valley. Chinese Archaeology 8:163-167.

Wang Qing and Zhu Jiping

2007     Sea-salt production during the Shang and Zhou eras in Northern Shandong. Chinese Archaeology 7: 119-122

Chengdu City Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics

2007, 2008 Text for museum exhibit at Jinsha site museum.

Chengdu City Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics

2006     Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Investigations at an Ancient Salt Production Site in Pujiang County, Chengdu City. In Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Preliminary Studies, Vol. 1, ed. by Li Shuicheng and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. 127-145. Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe.

Li Xiaobo

2006     Study Report on the Ancient Salt Well in Yushan Township, Pengshui County, Chongqing. In Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Preliminary Studies, Vol. 1, ed. by Li Shuicheng and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. 115-125. Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe.

2006     The Geological Foundation for the Development of Ancient Sichuan Salt Production. In Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Preliminary Studies, Vol. 1, ed. by Li Shuicheng and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. 163-181. Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe.

Long Teng

2006     Cliffside Carvings Near Salt Wells in Pujiang County. In Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Preliminary Studies, Vol. 1, ed. by Li Shuicheng and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. 147-159. Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe.

Sun Hua and Zeng Xianlong

2006     Pointed Base Pottery Cups and Scalloped Rim Cauldrons [Fu]: Simultaneous explanation of the Yangzi Gorge Area pre-Qin fishing and salt industries. In Landscape Archaeology and Ancient Salt Production in Sichuan and Adjacent Regions: Preliminary Studies, Vol. 1, ed. by Li Shuicheng and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. 287-315. Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe.

Houma Archaeological Station of the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology

2004     The Eastern Zhou Sacrificial Pits at Xigao in Houma, Shanxi. Chinese Archaeology 4: 103-110.

Hunan Provincial Institute of Antiquity and Archaeology, Huaihua Municipal Office for Preservation of Ancient Monuments, and Yuanling County Museum

2004     Significant Finds from the Han Period Tomb No. 1 at Huxishan in Yuanling.  Chinese Archaeology 4: 111-122. 

Yue Hongbin

2003     Research on the Orientation of Decoration on Bronzes from Yinxu. Chinese Archaeology 3: 170-175

   

 



2011 © President & Fellows of Harvard College