SEAA9 Conference Video
Check out this video highlight by our local organizers showcasing the SEAA9 conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_gMKESaFKY
10
Aug
SEAA News Blog: Noteworthies
10
Aug
POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY: Researchers decode metal-making recipes in ancient Chinese text
"Researchers have deciphered enigmatic recipes for metal-making contained in an ancient Chinese text, revealing unexpected complexity in the art at the time.
Six chemical formulas are given in a Chinese text from 300BC known as the Kaogong ji. The manuscript, known as The World’s Oldest Encyclopedia of Technologies, forms part of a detailed archive of early imperial rule, which archeologists have been trying to decode since the 1920s."
12
Jul
Anke Hein: Diversity is beauty and strength
Our China Stories (People's Daily Online) recently featured Dr. Anke Hein, the incumbent president of SEAA. You can watch the interview via the following link on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j51_mNpISA
The English and Chinese versions of the text of the interview are also available. Please see the following:
English version: http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0628/c90000-10115988.html
22
Jun
POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY: Thousands of Bronze Age artefacts unearthed from Laolongtou graves in China’s Sichuan province
For those interested, check out the following video by the South China Morning Post on the excavation of Bronze Age artifacts from Laolongtou Tomb site in China's Sichuan province.
22
Jun
Video Lecture: Ceramic Production and Distribution systems: A Case Study of Cambodian Stoneware Ceramics
For those interested, check out the following video lecture by Dr. Miriam Stark (Department of Anthropology, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa) on Ceramic Production and Distribution systems in Cambodia. It is available on Youtube.
07
Jun
Popular Archaeology: What’s next for the following 100 years of Chinese archaeology
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently stressed the importance of furthering the study of Chinese civilization to enhance the historical awareness and cultural confidence of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and society, while unswervingly following the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics to realize national rejuvenation.
09
May
Webinar: Memories of the Archaeological Experience
The Stanford Archaeology Center will be hosting a webinar, "Memories of the Archaeological Experience" by Jada Ko on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at 12:00 PM PST. For more information and to register for the event, please see: https://archaeology.stanford.edu/events/memories-archaeological-experien...
04
May
Popular Archaeology: Stonehenge exhibition explores parallels with Japanese stone circles
The exhibition will feature 80 striking objects, some of which have never before been seen outside Japan. Key loans announced on Wednesday include a flame pot, a highly decorated type of Jōmon ceramics, its fantastical shape evoking blazing flames. Such pots were produced in Japan for a relative short period, perhaps only a few hundred years.
26
Apr
Popular Archaeology: China's first archaeological museum to open to the public
Construction on China's first archaeological museum in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, home to the famous Terracotta Warriors, has been completed and the site will soon welcome its first visitors, according to the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology.
26
Apr
Popular Archaeology: What Archaeologists Are Learning About the Lives of the Chinese Immigrants Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
The desert of far northwestern Utah stretches 60 miles from the arid border of Nevada to the saline-crusted shores of the Great Salt Lake. The terrain is exceedingly flat, punctuated only by the intermittent dry arroyo, rocky hill or volcanic cinder cone. Horned lizards and jack rabbits dart between thorny shrubs and scrawny box elder trees. Apart from the occasional cattle ranch or sheep-herding camp, the landscape appears desolate and lonely, forgotten in the expanse of geologic time.