East Asian Archaeology Seminar Seriesthe East Asian Archaeology Seminar

2012
	February 2 Mang Jui-man WU (University of Pittsburg) “Decoding Sogdian Funerary Art in China: Politics, Religion, and Transculturation in the Sixth Century”
	February 21 Rowan FLAD (Harvard University) “Ancient Sichuan: The Origins and Development of Complex Society in the Chengdu Plain”
	March 8 Eun Gyeng YANG (Pusan National University, Korea) “A Study on the Interchange of 5th – 7th Century East Asian Gilt Bronze Buddhist Sculpture”
	March 21 Changseok KIM (Visiting Scholar of the Korea Institute; Kangwon National University, Korea) “Ancient Korean Mokkan (??): Focusing on Its’ Features and Uses”
	April 4 Eun Gyeng YANG (Pusan National University, Korea) “Recent Archeological Discoveries of Buddhist Temple Sites of the Baekje (6th-7th Century) Korea and their Relationship with China”
	April 6 Martin T. BALE (Harvard University) “Material Culture, Political Economy, and the Emergence of the Earliest Sociopolitically Complex Societies in Korea”
	April 10 WANG Hui (Director of the Gansu Provincial Institute of Archaeology) XIN Lixiang (Former director of the Archaeology division of the National Museum) ZHAO Huacheng (Professor at Beida JIAO Nanfeng (Former director of the Shanxi Provincial Institute? “Recent Progress in the Archaeology of Northwest China”
	April 24 Thanik Lertcharnrit (Silpakorn University, Thailand) “Archaeology of the Iron Age in Thailand: Recent Investigations in Central Thailand”
	May 4 Anthropology 1210 Presentations
	September 14 (F) WEI Qiaowei (Shandong University) “Salt Production during Late Shang and Western Zhou in North Shandong: A focus on social network and resource management” Peabody Museum Rm. 14A 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 11:30 AM September 19 (W) Ariel O’CONNOR (Harvard University) and Rowan FLAD (Harvard University) “Ritual and Technology in Chinese Ceremonial Weapons” [Sackler Museum Gallery Talk – Co-organized with the Harvard Archaeology Seminar] Arthur M. Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 3:30 PM September 20 (Th) Ed SHAUGHNESSY (University of Chicago) “Arousing Images: The Poetry of Divination and the Divination of Poetry” [Sponsored and organized by the Peabody Museum] Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 6:00 PM October 11-13 The Rise of Iron Technology in East and West Asia [Co-Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard-Yenching Institute, American School for Prehistoric Research, and the Fairbank Center] 10/11: CGIS S-153 10/12: Knafel K354 10/13: Knafel K262 October 24 (W) LI Min (UCLA) “Ruins of Qufu: Archaeology of a Confucian Landscape” [Co-organized with the Harvard Archaeology Seminar] Putnam Laboratory, Peabody Museum 59D 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 12:00 PM October 31 (W) HUNG Ling-yu (University of Indiana) “Making the Majiayao Culture Complex: Pottery Production in NW China ca. 5300 to 4000 BP” [Co-organized with the Harvard Archaeology Seminar] Putnam Laboratory, Peabody Museum 59D 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 12:00 PM November 5 (M) Barry ROLETT (Bishop Museum) “Ancient southeast China: Falling sea-level and the rise of irrigated rice agriculture” Peabody Museum, Rm. 14A 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 4:00 PM November 13 (F) CHEN Fangmei (National Taiwan University) “A Look at the Construction of the Yinshan Temple in Danshui, Taiwan during the 1800s” Peabody Museum 14A 11:30 AM December 5 (W) Yangjin PAK (Chungnam National University) “A Bone of Contention: Archaeological Heritage of Northeast China and Its Cultural and Ethnic Identities” Putnam Laboratory, Peabody Museum 59D 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 12:00 PM
2011
	February 4 Anne Sarah NELSON (University of Denver) “Korea and the Silk Road”
	February 15 CHOI, Sung-rak (Mokpo National University) “Recent Excavations of Iron Age sites in the Yeongsan River Valley in SW Korea”
	February 18 JING Zhongwei (Jilin University) "The Studded Horse-bits and the Spiked Whips: Horse-controlling Techniques in China’s Central Plain from the Perspective of Cultural contact with the Northern Steppes (1300-300 B. C.)"
	March 4 WANG Minghui (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology) “Osteological research on skeletons from the Xipo site”
	March 11 Wencheong LAM (Harvard University) “‘Private’ Ceramic Workshops of the Late Qin State (300-200 B.C.): A case study of stamped ceramics from the Xiayang region, China” & LIU Yu (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology) “Casting Technology and Production of Bronzes in Late Shang Dynasty of China”
	March 25 CHOI In-Hwa (National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Seoul, South Korea) “Exploring the Joseon Dynasty Capital and Palace: Urban Archaeology in Seoul, South Korea”
	April 8 ZHANG Wenjie (Peking University) “The Ritual Reforms in the Eastern Zhou Period” & WANG Jiayin (Peking University) “Handaxes from China and the movius line discussion”
	April 28 WANG Binghua (Renmin University) “Bronze Age Cultural Traces in the Lop Nur region of Xinjiang”
	April 29 LUO Huidong (Beijing Language and Culture University) “A Study on the Regional Characteristics of Bronze Inscriptions during the Springs-and-Autumns Period”
	September 2 Wengcheong LAM (Harvard University) East Asian Archaeology Seminar Welcome
	September 9 WANG Changsui (Chinese Academy of Sciences) “Some New Results of the Study of Chinese Ancient Ceramics” & HU Yaowu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) “Isotopic Evidence of Human Subsistence Strategies in Prehistoric China”
	September 20 Jade Guedes (Harvard University) “The development of Rice Agriculture in Southwest China”
	September 30 “Silk Road Glass in Korea” Conference organized by the Early Korea Project
	October 21 Itzchak JAFFE (Harvard University) “Materializing Identity – A Statistical Analysis of the Western Zhou Liulihe Cemetery”
	November 14 WANG Haicheng (University of Washington) “Shang Royal Sacrifice as Double-Representation”
	December 9 WU Xiaolong (Hanover College) “Cultural Hybridity and Social Status: Eastern Zhou Elite Tombs on China’s Northern Frontier”
2010
	February 12 Ken-ichi SASAKI (Meiji University) “Japanese Archaeology of State Formation: A View from Eastern Periphery”
	February 26 John OLSEN (University of Arizona) “The Initial Peopling of the Tibet Plateau and Mongolia”
	March 12 MA Xiaolin (Henan Provincial Institute of Archaeology, China) “Raw Materials, Techniques, Products and Society: Analysis of worked bones from Western Zhou in Central China”
	March 26 WU Xiaohong (Peking University) “Recent Uses of Radiocarbon Dating in International Projects in China and related issues”
	April 2 LU Hongliang (Sichuan University) “Recent Advances in Tibetan Prehistory”
	April 23 Jenny SO (Chinese University of Hong Kong) “Archaisms in Chinese Jade”
	May 24 TANG Chung (Chinese University of Hong Kong) “Significance of Hong Kong Archaeology – Origins of Tapa Beater from an East Asian Perspective”
	September 17 Pochan CHEN (National Taiwan University) “Exploring the Ancient Ba-Shu Relationship from the Perspective of World-System Theory” [Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute] Download talk summary [DOC]
	September 27 Magnus FISKESJÖ (Cornell University) “Collecting Chinese Culture: The Future of Wenwu as Cultural Fetish” Download talk summary [DOC]
	October 6 Adam SMITH (Columbia University) “Diviners and Scribes: The Origins and Development of Writing in China” Download talk summary [DOC]
	October 12 Jane PORTAL (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) “Tradition and Socialism – Art and Archaeology in North Korea” [Part of Early Korea Project Lecture Series] Download talk summary [DOC]
	October 22 YANG Xiaoyan (Chinese Academy of Sciences) “The Tribe Triticeae (the Wheat-Related Grasses) Exploitation During Early-Middle Neolithic China-Evidences from Ancient Starches and Charred Seeds”
	November 5 JIN Zhengyao (University of Science and Technology of China) “Archaeological Smelted Copper and Reconstruction of an Ancient Metal History in the Bronze Age Yunnan” Download talk summary [DOC]
	November 12 Janine OCHOA (University of the Philippines) “Palaeozoology of Palawan Island, Philippines"
	November 19 PARK Sunmi (University of Seoul) “Archaeological Approaches to Buffer Zone Trade from a Scoiopolitical Context on Coinage in Wiman-Chosun” [Co-sponsored with Early Korea Project] Download talk summary [DOC]
	December 6 Student Presentations for A2092 “Early China: Archaeology and Texts”
2009
	February 13 CHEN Jianmin (Hunan Provincial Museum, Director) “The Hunan Museum: Objects, Display, and Recent Archaeological Discoveries” Barker Center Plimpton Room 133
	March 4 GUO Wu (Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) “Early Pastoral-Nomadic Societies in the Eastern Eurasian Steppes and their Interactions with Early Chinese Societies”
	March 11 HUANG Yijun (Department of History, Central University for Nationalities) “The Tang-Song Transition from the Perspective of Material Culture: A Case Study of Tombs in Hubei”
	April 8 Tserendorj ODBATAAR (National Museum of Mongolian History, Ulaan Baatar) “ang-Uyghur Archaeology in Mongolia”
	April 15 LI Zhipeng (Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) “The Ritual Use of Animals in Late Shang Funerary Practice: A Zooarchaeological Perspective”
	April 29 JING Zhichun (Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Canada) “Power Relations and Strategies in the Creation of the Shang City in Anyang”
	May 13 Chen Fangmei (Graduate Institute of Art History National Taiwan University) "An Investigation of the Social Use of Anyang Bronze Artifacts During the Early and Middle Yin-hsu Period: 13th–mid 11th century BC"
	September 18 Ken-ichi SASAKI (Meiji University) “Archaeological Investigations at the Omuro Cairn Cluster in the Central Highlands of Japan–With Reference to Korean Immigrants in Fifth and Sixth Centuries A.D.”
	October 5 Professor Zheng Yan (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) "The 'Mask' of the Dead: Reading a Sixth-Century Sogdian Tomb at Xi'an"
	October 9 Ekaterina PECHENKINA (Queens College, CUNY) “Life in the Early Farming Communities of Northern China: A Bioarchaeological Account”
	October 23 Martin BALE (University of Toronto) “Storage practices and social change in Mumun Period Korea, ca. 1500-300 BC”
	November 2 Shinya FUKUNAGA (Osaka University) “Significance of “Triangular-Rimmed Mirrors” in State Formation in Japan”
	November 24 Adam SMITH (Columbia University) “Scribal Training at Anyang–Paleographic and Archaeological Evidence” in room Room 14A Peabody Museum at 12:00 p.m.
2008
	February 14 Mark ALDENDERFER (University of Arizona) “The Peopling of the Tibetan Plateau: When, Where, How, and How Many Times?”
	February 28 Evgeniya GELMAN (Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences) “Archaeological Investigations of the Bohai (Parhae) State in Russia”
	March 13 TANG Jigen (Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, China) “Community Change on the Outskirts of the Shang Capital (of Ancient China) -The Heihelu Road Salvage Excavations, 1997-1999”
	March 21 LEE Song Joo (Kangnung National University) “Formation of the Early State in Southeastern Korea”
	April 10 MA Xiaolin (Henan Provincial Institute of Archaeology) “Development of House Structures and Settlement Organization in the Yangshao Period (ca. 4900-3000 BC)”
	April 17 Jeffrey BRANTINGHAM (UCLA) “A Short Chronology of Human Occupation of the Tibetan Plateau”
	April 24 Jeff Moser (Harvard University) “Antiquity Reburied: The Medieval Hordes of Sichuan Province”
	October 1 Roderick CAMPBELL (Brown University) “Ritual Killing: Death, Alterity and the Sacred in Shang China”
	October 8 Alice YAO (University of Toronto) “Culture contact and social change along ancient China’s southwestern frontier in the first millennium BCE”
	October 29 XU Hong (CASS, IOA) “Erlitou: A Major Focus for the Study of State Formation in Early China”
	October 30 CAO Wei (Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology) "The Chinese Bronze Age and Ritual Systems"
	November 5 SHIN Hee-gwon and CHOI In-hwa (National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, South Korea) "Current archaeological research at P'ungnap Walled Site and Kyongbok Palace"
	November 12 QU Tongli (Peking University) “The Chinese Upper Paleolithic”
	November 19 Robin McNEAL (Cornell University) “Archaeology of the Sages: Myth and Monument in Contemporary China”
	December 3 YANG Zhefeng (Peking University) “Changes of Tomb Structure in Han China”
	December 10 Xiaoli OUYANG (Harvard University) "Reconstructing Economic Administration in Late Third-Millennium BCE Mesopotamia from Cuneiform Tablets"
2007
March 8	Kang Bong Won 姜奉遠 (Director, Gyeongju University Museum) “Mortuary Practices of the Silla Kingdom in Ancient Korea”
March 15	Choi Jongtaik 崔鍾澤 (Korea University) “The Development of Ceramic Technologies on the Korean Peninsula and its Relationships with Adjacent Regions”
April 3	Wang Wei (Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) “Results of the National Project on the Study of the Origin of Chinese Civilization”
April 19	Pak Yangjin 朴洋震 (Chungnam National University) “Korean Bronze Metallurgy and Rice Cultivation: Multiple Paths and Diverse Sources”
April 26	Kim Gyongtaek 金庚澤 (Korean National University of Cultural Heritage) “Approaches to Complex Society in Ancient Korea: A Critical Review of Discussions on the Complex Society in Korea”
May 3	Le Lien Thi (Vietnam Institute of Archaeology) “The Thang Long Imperial Capital: the Excavation at Ba Dinh (Hanoi, Vietnam) in the Context of East Asian Imperial Cities”
May 10	Yang Nan (National Minorities University) “Late Neolithic Complex Society in Southeastern China”
May 10	Li Fei, (Guizhou Institute of Archaeology) “New Archaeological Discoveries in Guizhou, China”
September 13	SUN Hua (Peking University, Department of Archaeology) Informal Discussion on “Current Directions of Archaeology in China” (in Chinese)
September 19	Jessica RAWSON (Oxford University) “Beads, Beasts and Gold: Interactions across Inner Asia and Transformations in China's Burial and Ritual Practices” Download talk summary [PDF]
September 27	Christopher NORTON (CUNY) “East Asian Paleoanthropology: Behavioral Perspectives” Download talk summary [PDF]
September 28	XU Guanji (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology; i.e., CASS, IOA) “Early Imperial Archaeology in China – A conversation with Xu Guangji”
October 5	YOO Yongwook (UCLA) “Pleistocene Hominind Occupation History in the Korean Peninsula and its Archaeological Evidence”
October 11	YUAN Jing (CASS, IOA) “The Origins and Development of Animal Domestication in China” Download talk summary [PDF]
October 25	Lynne SCHEPARTZ (Florida State University) “Mortuary Ritual and Social Distinctions Among Shang Burials at Daxinzhuang” Download talk summary [PDF]
November 15	LI Xinwei (CASS, IOA) “Jade and the establishment of exchange networks of elite goods around 2300 BC in eastern China” Download talk summary [PDF]
November 29	LI Yanxiang (Beijing University of Science and Technology) “Archaeometallurgy in the Liaoxi Region of Northeast China” Download talk summary [PDF]
December 6	Chen SHEN (Royal Ontario Museum) “Handaxes from Northern China: Recent Palaeolithic Investigations in the Luonan Basin, Shaanxi Province” Download talk summary [PDF]
December 13	Student Presentations for Anthropology 1210: Archaeology of Ancient China Lauren SANTINI – G1 (Anthropology) “Introduction to the Museum Exhibit: Indicators of Social Complexity in the Late Neolithic on the Eve of the Shang – Part One ” Erica LARSEN – G1 (Anthropology) “Introduction to the Museum Exhibit: Indicators of Social Complexity in the Late Neolithic on the Eve of the Shang – Part Two ” Katherine BRUNSON – Harvard College ’08 (Anthropology) “Bone Tool Industries in Ancient China” QU Tongli – Peking University (Archaeology) “Paleolithic Transitions? Perspectives on Zhijidong” Jade D’Aploim GUEDES – G2 (Anthropology) & Michele KOONS – G2 (Anthropology) “Production and function of pottery in Northwest China during the 3rd millennium BC” (Two Parts) Mollie KIRK – Harvard College ‘08 (East Asian Studies) “Circles and Squares: Evidence for a Cosmological Geometry in Neolithic Ceramic Decoration” Emily HAMMER – G2 (Anthropology) “Early Chinese Urbanism” Christopher FOSTER – RSEA “Writing in Early China” Miriam HINMAN – Harvard College ‘08 (Anthropology) “Cultural Mentality in Bronzes of the Shang Dynasty and Contemporary Sichuan” Nawa SUGIYAMA – G1 (Anthropology) “The Role of the Horse in the Shang Dynasty: Implications to Sources of Power”
2006
February 9	Peter Lu (Harvard University) "Early Technological Advances from Ancient China" Download talk summary [PDF]
February 23	Lai Guolong (University of Florida) "Fluidity and Fixation: Observations on the Materiality of Excavated Manuscripts in Early China" Download talk summary [PDF]
March 2	Wang Cheng-hua (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) "Printing, Heritage Preservation, and Exhibitionary Culture: Collotype Reproduction of Antiquities in Early Twentieth-Century China" Download talk summary [PDF]
March 16	Wu Xiaohong (Peking University) "Archaeological Radiocarbon Dating in China"
April 20	Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute of Advanced Study) "Xiongnu culture within and beyond China: a comparative view of approaches to Xiongnu archaeology"
May 4	Irene Good (Harvard University) "New Views on the Tarim Mummies of Xinjiang" Download talk summary [PDF]
May 8	Wang Changsui (Chinese Academy of Sciences) "Developments in the archaeology of porcelain and metallurgy"
May 17	Rod Campbell (Harvard University) "Shang Civilization and the Social Economy of Kinship and Violence" Download talk summary [PDF]
May 18	Jiang Bo (Chinese Academy of Social Science, Institute of Archaeology) "Altars and Temples: Ceremonial Buildings of Ming and Qing Empires" Download talk summary [PDF]
October 5	Anthony Barbieri-Low, University of Pittsburgh “A Computer-Assisted Reconstruction of the ‘Wu Family Shrines’”
October 12	Wang Binghua, People’s University of China “Bronze Cultures in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”
October 18	Richard Pearson(emeritus professor, UBC in Vancouver) “Debating Jomon Social Complexity” This presentation is in conjunction with the Anthropology Department Lunchtime Archaeology Lecture Series.
November 2	Lu Yang (Harvard University)
November 9	Lan-ying Tseng (Yale University) ”Astrology and Brocade on the Frontier of Han China”
November 30	Liu Guoxiang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) “The Role of the Xinglonggou Settlement in Northeastern Neolithic Culture”
December 7	Robert Drennan (University of Pittsburgh) “Community and Region in North China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age: Chifeng, Yiluo, and Rizhao”
December 14	Gary Crawford (University of Toronto at Mississauga) “The Jomon in Agricultural Origins Discourse”
2005
September 29	Josh Wright and Rowan Flad (Harvard University) “Harvard Archaeology Summer Field Research in East Asia” Download talk summary* [PDF]
October 13	David Pankenier (Lehigh University) “Astro-archaeology in Ancient China” Download talk summary* [PDF]
October 20	Wang Ming-ke (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) “Early Nomads on China’s Northern Frontiers” Download talk summary* [PDF]
October 27	Sarah Allan (Dartmouth University) "Shang Di (High Lord) and Tian (Sky): Their identity and Relationship" Download talk summary* [PDF]
November 10	Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California, Los Angeles) “Stages in the Development of ‘Cities’ in Pre-Imperial China” Co-sponsored by the China Humanities Seminar Download talk summary* [PDF]
December 2	Paola Dematte (Rhode Island School of Design) "Imagery and ‘Religion’: The case of ancient China"
December 15	Student Presentations for Anthropology 1210: Zinovi Matskevich, Department of Anthropology “The western connections of the Yangshao Neolithic culture: the old problem revisited” Jennifer Hsieh, Department of Anthropology “Peripheries of Scholarship: Chinese Archaeology post-1949” Carrie Brezine, Department of Anthropology “A Whorl of Industry: Textile Technology in Ancient China” HeeKyung Keum, East Asian Languages and Civilization “The limitations of archaeology in reconstructing religious practices of archaic China” Jonathan Krause, Regional Studies –East Asia “A Basic Analysis of Zhouyuan Oracle Bone Inscriptions” Lulu Zhou, Department of Anthropology “People and Possessions: Social Relations in Ancient China” Allison Miller, East Asian Languages and Civilization “New Reflections on Dian Archeology” Nathaniel VanValkenburgh, Department of Anthropology “Some thoughts on the development of early Chinese bronze currency” Marta Sobur, Department of Anthropology “Mollusks and Money: the use of cowry shells and their imitations as currency in Bronze Age China”
1997
January 10	Mr. Tianlong JIAO (Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar, and Research Associate, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Archaeolgy) “Chariots, Laquers, and Bronze: New Excavations at the Major Shang Site of Qianzhangda, Shandong Province, North China”
January 31	Presentation and Discussion of Selected graduate student research papers from Anthropology 144 “The Archaeology of Ancient China” Tara Sullen DUFFY (Graduate Student, Regional Studies East Asia) “Plagiarists and Politicians: Archaeologists in the Song Dynasty” Vanessa FONG (Graduate Student, Social Anthropology) “Marxism, Nationalism and Archaeology in the PRC” Patrick RASZELENBERG (Graduate Student, Regional Studies-East Asia) “Aspects of Shamanism in Ancient China” James Fitzsimmons (Graduate Student, Anthropology/Archaeology Wing) “Reading the Cracks: Evidence for “Shang” Refugees in the New World” Karla DAVIS-SALAZAR (Graduate Student, Anthropology/Archaeology) “The Origins of Urbanism in China: A Comparison of the Shang City of Cheng-chou and the Zapotec City of Monte Alban” Nicole NEWENDORP (Graduate Student, Social Anthropolgy) “Writing and Rulership in Ancient Society: The Cases of Shang China and Classic Maya”
February 7	Mr. Xuechun LIU (Graduate Student, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of History, and Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Fellow) “The Fating of Shang Oracle Bone Inscriptions: Problems and Prospects”
February 14	Ms. Erika EVASDOTTIR (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard) “Nationalism and the Museum in Taiwan”
February 21	Dr. SHUI Tao (Nanjing University, and Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania) “Cultural Exchange Between the East and West before the Silk Road: Recent Studies of Bronze Age Archaeology of Xinjiang Province, China”
March 7	Mr. Yung-ti LI (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard) , “Cowries in Early Bronze Age China: Monetary of Ritual Exchange?”
March 21	Mr. Mark BYINGTON (Graduate Student, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard) “Regional Surveys of Koguryo Sites in Korea and Northeast China”
April 4	Prof. Michael PUETT (Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard)
April 7	Prof. Jeffrey RIEGEL (Department of History, UC-Berkeley) “The Shijing (Book of Songs), with Reference to Archaeology" Co-Sponsored with the Pre-Modern China Seminar
April 11	Ms. Virginia MOON (Graduate Student, Regional Studies – East Asia)
April 18	Dr. Robert E. MUROCHICK (Department of Anthropology, Harvard) “Bronze Age Copper Production and Consumption: New Developments from the Middle-Yangzi River”
April 24	Mr. Anthony BARBIERI-LOW (Graduate Student, Regional Studies East Asia) “The Development of Wheeled Vehicles in the Shang Dynasty: Textual, Archaeological, and Ethnographic Evidence”
May 2	Ms. Tracy HOFFMAN (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology) “Current Research in Bronze Age Archaeology in Vietnam: Dongson Excavations”
1996
February 9	Prof. Zhongpei ZHANG (Palace Museum, China) “On the Formation of Chinese Civilization”
February 16	Prof. MOU Yongkang (Zhejiang Institute of Archaeology, China) “Jade-Working Technology of the Late Neolithic Liangzhu Culture in Southeast China”
February 23	Prof MOU Yongkang (Zhejiang Institute of Archaeology, China) “The Function of Cong-Jade of the Liangzhu Culture in Southeast China”
March 1	Dr. Vincent PIGOTT (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University Pennsylvania) “The Archaeology of Production: Excavating a Prehistoric Copper Industry in Central Thailand”
March 8	Dr. Yangjin PAK (Korea Institute, Harvard University) “From Pigs to Horses: The Practice of Animal Sacrifice in the Northern Bronze Age China”
March 15	Dr. Nancy STEINHARDT (University of Pennsylvania) “Changchuan Tomb No. 1 and Its North Asia Context”
March 22	Dr. Joyce WHITE (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania) “Insights from Thai Prehistory on Theories of Politico-Economic Development”
April 5	Dr. Sarah ALLAN (Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages, Dartmouth College) “The Tiger in Early Chinese Art and Ritual”
April 19	Mr. Mokhtar SAIDIN (Gradute Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) “New Data of the Paleolithic in Malaysia”
April 26	Mr. Stephen CHIA (Special Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) “A Major Neolithic Pottery Production Site in Southeast Asia”
May 3	Prof. TONG Enzheng (Department of Art History, Wesleyan University, CT) “Ancient Yunnan and Sichuan, and the Search for a ‘Southern Silk Road’”
September 20	Open discussion, 1996-1997 Seminar schedule, ongoing graduate student research projects in Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Regional Studies-East Asia.
September 27	Dr. Jian LENG (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Peabody Museum, Harvard University) “Using GIS and GPS in the Archaeological Surveys of the Ying River Valley, Henan Province, China”
October 4	Prof. Hyung-Il PAI (Department of History,UC-SB) “The ‘Origins’ of Korean Civilization: Japanese Archaeology in the Korean Peninsula, 1898-1945”
October 21	Prof. David N. KEIGHTLEY (Department of History, UC Berkeley) “Art and the Ancestors: Reflections on the Origins of Chinese Characters" Co-sponsored with the Pre-Mordern China Seminar
November 1	Dr. Ken’ichi SASAKI (Associate of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology) “Keyhole-Shaped Mounds: Archaeological Approaches to Elite Mortuary Rituals in 4th c. Japan”
November 8	Prof. Sarah M. NELSON (Department of Anthropology, University of Denver) “The Hongshan Culture of Northeast China: New Research and Future Prospects”
November 15	Dr. Denis REIDY (Staff Geophysicist, Geo-Centers Inc.) and Mr. David B. CIST (Graduate Student, Earth Resources Laboratory, MIT) “On the Applicability of Geo-Physical Remote Sensing in Chinese Archaeology: Notes from the Field”
December 6	Prof. Wenxin QI (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of History, Beijing) “Communication and Transportation in Shang Dynasty China”
December 13	Open discussion of ongoing fieldwork and thesis research by Harvard graduate students in Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Literatures and Regional Studies – East Asia.
1995
February 8	Prof Fumiko IKAWA-SMITH (Department of Anthropology, McGill University) “Who Were the Jomon People? Politics of Ethnic Identity in Japanese Archaeology”
February 13	Prof Edward SHAUGHNESSY (University of Chicago) “From Liturgy to Literature: The Ritual Contexts of the Earliest Poems in the Classics of Poetry”
February 24	Prof. Robert BAGLEY (Princeton University) “Technological Choice: Shang Metal Technology and Its Bearings on Questions of Diffusion and Independent Invention”
February 27	Prof Victor MAIR (University of Pennsylvania) “Prehistoric Caucasian Corpse of the Tarim Basin and Surrounding Areas” Co-Sponsored by Pre-Modern China Seminar
March 1	Prof Lothar von FALKENHAUSEN (University of California, Los Angeles) “The Late Western Zhou Ritual Reform”
March 10	Prof. Yaoling SONG (Visiting Scholar to the Department of EALC, Harvard; Huadong Normal University, China) “Remains of Wangcheng of Wanggubu in the Yuan Dynasty”
March 24	Francis ALLARD (PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh) “Interaction and the Emergence of Social Complexity in Lingnan During the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age"
April 7	Wenjian WANG (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) “Chengtoushan: The First Walled Site in Northern China”
May 5	Dr. Susan WELD (East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School) “A New Technique for Deciphering Ancient Chinese Scripts”
September 28	Prof. Changshou ZHANG (Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard, Research Associate, Academy of Social Sciences, China) “West Zhou: Mortuary Practices as Seen from the Zhangjiapo Cemetary, Shaanxi, China”
September 29	Prof. Tianlin GAO (Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard; Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Science, China) “Excavations at the Taosi Site, Shanzi Province”
October 6	Mr. Mingchong HWANG (PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University) “A New Interpretation of the Ya-shape”
October 13	Prof. Shichang MA (Beijing University, China) “Recent Archaeological Research of Buddhist Grottoes in China”
October 20	David CIST (PhD Candidate, MIT) “Using Geophysical Tools for Archaeological Prospection: Results from the Harvard Investigation into Early Shang Civilization”
November 3	Mr. David COHEN and Mr. Yung-ti LI (PhD Candidates, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) “Harvard Investigations into Early Shang Civilizations: Excavations of the Longshan Site and Shantaisi, Henan, China, Spring 1995”
November 10	Prof. Baotian ZHU (Visiting Scholar of Harvard-Yenching Library, Research Associate, Yunnan Provincial Museum China) “Survivals of Ancient Handicraft: An Introduction to the Traditional Culture of Ethnic Groups in Yunnan, China"
November 17	Mr. Wenjian WANG (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) “The Early Walled Sites in the Middle Yangtze River Basin, China”
December 8	Mr. Jigen TANG (Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, China) “Excavations and Research of Yinxu, the Last Capital of Shang”
December 15	Dr. Fred HIEBERT (Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) “The Origins of Agricultural Oases in Central Asia: The Oxus Civilization and Xinjiang”
1994
February 18	Wenjian WANG (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard) “Excavation of the Chengtoushan Neolithic Site in Hunan, China”
February 25	Aihe WANG (PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard) “Wuxing Cosmology and the Transformation of Political Structure in Early China”
March 4	Yaoling SONG (Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Huadong Normal University, Shanghai China) “Rock Arts of Ancient China”
March 11	Xingcan CHEN (Visiting Scholar, Harvard Yenching Institute; Institute of Archaeology, China) “An Explanation of the Animal Masks of the Liangzhu Culture Jades”
April 2	Gina L. BARNES (Cambridge University, England) “Is There Such a Thing as East Asian Archaeology: Recent Developments in Japanese Archaeology”
May 12	Sara M. NELSON (University of Denver) “Issues in the Origin of Agriculture in Korea”
September 30	Gundi CHAN (Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvardl; Fujian Univeristy, China) “Connoisseurship of Liangzhu Jade”
October 7	“Neolithic Sand Dune Sites in the Pearl River Estuary, Guangdong, China”
October 17	David KEIGHTLEY (University of California Berkeley) “In the Bone: Divination, Theology, and Political Culture in Late Shang China”
October 21	Kwang-tzuu CHEN (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) “Current State of Philippine Archaeology”
October 31	Michael LOWE (University of Cambridge) “Huo Guang, Marchal of State (died 68 B.C.) and His Barricade Style (Huangchang Ticou) Tomb”
November 4	Ken SASAKI (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) “Pottery Moves, Polity Evolves: A Case in Japanese Prehistory”
November 18	Yudong CHEN (Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Nankai University, China) “Problems in the Connoisseurship of Ancient Books and Paintings”
December 9	Anne UNDERHILL (Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard) “Ceramic Ethnoarchaeological Research in China”
December 15	Robert MUROWCHICK (Associate Director, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University) and David COHEN (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) “The Shangqiu Project: A Search for the Origin of Shang Civilization”
1993
February 17	Jiayo AN (Visiting Scholar to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Institute of Archaeology, China) “Ancient Glass of China”
March 3	David COHEN (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard) “Anyang and Other Archaeological Sites in North China”
March 10	Tiemei CHEN (Visiting Scholar to University of Minnesota, Head of the Archaeometry Laboratory in the Department of Archaeology at Beijing University, China) “Practice of Radiocarbonation Dating at Beijing University”
March 17	Li LIU (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard) ”Ritual Practice in Prehistoric China”
March 24	Chris FUNG (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard) “Mortuary Practice of Neolithic China: The Case of Dawenkou Culture”
April 7	Kyung-ho SUH (Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Korea) “An Analysis of Shan Hai Jing. (The Classic of Mountains and Seas)”
April 14	Yangjin PAK (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard) “Current Research on the Origin of Chinese Civilization: The Case of Chahai and Niuheliang in Northeast China”
April 21	POO Mu-chou (Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Natioanl Taiwan University, Taipei), “Ancient Chinese Folk Religion”
October 1	Ming-chorng HWANG (PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard) “The Word ‘Shaman’ in Early Chinese Documents”
October 8	Tracy HOFFMAN (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard) “Excavation of Bronze Age Cemetery at NONG NOR in Central Thailand”
October 15	Lan-ying TSENG (Graduate Student, Department of Fine Arts, Harvard) “Art, Myth, History and Memory: The Monumentality of Si Mu Wu Ding”
October 22	Chonghua ZOU (Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Sichuan University, Chengdu, China) “The Castle System in Sichuan Area during the Southern Song-Mongol War”
October 29	Li LIU (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard) “Longshan Mortuary Practice in the Formation of a Chiefdom Society in China”
November 5	Xingcan CHEN (Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Institute of Archaeology, China) “Excavation of Xiantouling Neolithic Site in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China”
November 12	Yung-ti LI (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard) “Dai Pottery Making in the Yunnan Province of China: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective”
November 19	Tsen-kuei LIU (Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) “Doors and Gates in Ancient China”
December 3	Yaoling SONG (Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Huadong Normal University, Shanghai China) “A Comparative Study: Human Face Petroglyphs of Eastern China and Northwest America”
December 10	Paul R. GOLDIN (PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard) “Five Old Chinese Words”
1992
October 14	Li LIU (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard) “Settlement Patterns of Longshan Culture on the Regional Level in Central Plains of China”
November 4	Qifeng PAN (Visiting Scholar to the University of Michigan; Institute of Archaeology, China) “Population Groups in Ancient China”
December 2	Xianguo FU (Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Institute of Archaeology, China “Discussiong of Liangzhu Jades”
December 9	Ming-chorng HWANG (Graduate Student, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard) “Archaeological and Historical Evidence of Ming Tang”
*The summaries reported here are authored by members of the seminar, as listed. These summaries have not been vetted by the speakers and they are not full transcripts of the presentations nor should they be considered to be published material. They are provided for information purposes only.