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“Rethinking pig domestication in China: regional trajectories in central China and the Lower Yangtze Valley” now in press in Antiquity. 

Authors: Ningning Dong and Jing Yuan

Sika deer in Bronze Age Guanzhong: sustainable wildlife exploitation in ancient China?

Authors: Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Honghai Chen, Zhen Wang and Yaopeng Qian 

Stratigraphy and chronology of the palaeolithic industry in Bose Basin, South China: Excavation of Gaolingpo

Authors: Guangmao Xie, Xiaoying Chen, Dawei Li, Minghui Yu, Zhanghua Hu, Huayu Lu, Qiuyan Huang and Qiang Lin

The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: Implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology

Several new articles from American Antiquity and Cambridge University Press have recently been published that are relevant to archaeologists around the world, including for those of us who work in East Asia. All three essays focus on the subject of harassment in archaeology.

Documenting Cultures of Harassment in Archaeology: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.118

Disrupting Cultures of Harassment in Archaeology: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2021.19

Using Public Health Interventions to Prevent Harassment in Archaeology: https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2021/03/23/using-public-health-interventions-to-prevent-harassment-in-archaeology/

Author: Susanne Reichert

Abstract

Haimenkou was an important location, with trade and cultural links connecting parts of modern Southeast Asia and northwestern China in ancient times. This book is based on an analysis of the faunal assemblage recovered from the Haimenkou site during the 2008 field season in Yunnan Province, China. It investigates the human-animal relationships at Haimenkou through a time span running from the late Neolithic Period to the middle Bronze Age (ca. 5000-2400 BP).

The collection includes memoirs about the outstanding Russian orientalist, specialist in the history of peoples, countries and legal systems of the states of the Far East - Mikhail Vasilyevich Vorobyov, as well as articles and translations of sources on the history of primitive Korea and primitive, ancient and early medieval Japan until the beginning of the VIII century, presented by Russian and foreign researchers.

You can download the whole book here: 

In recent years, major new archaeological discoveries have redefined the development of towns and cities in the Japanese archipelago. The uncovering of the plans of major port towns such as Sakai, Kusado Sengen and Ichijōdani, and the revealing of early phases in the development of cities such as Kamakura and Hakata provide an important new resource in understanding the cultural and economic processes which shaped medieval Japan.

This fully illustrated book provides a sampler of these findings for a western audience. The new discoveries from Japan are set in context of medieval archaeology beyond Japan by accompanying essays from leading European specialists.