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What is the DRH? 

The DRH is a massive, standardized, searchable encyclopedia of the current best scholarly opinion on historical religious traditions and the historical record more generally.

It allows users to instantly gain an overview of the state of scholarly opinion and access powerful, built-in analytic and data visualization tools.

Want to contribute? 

If you are a historian or religious studies expert, you can help make the DRH better. It is a great chance to contribute to an important academic resource. The DRH is actively recruiting experts to fill out entries on East Asian religion. Entries may be written in Chinese OR English.

Benefits of Writing an Entry: Contribute to an international database on world history; Receive a publication credit; Honorarium available while funds last for complete entries finished within 60 days. 

Entry Requirements: Introductory paragraph (approx. 400 words); All quantitative questions answered; As many qualitative comments as possible (no set word count); Approximately 20-40 pdf pages (number will vary based on topic).

Contact Editor: Matthew Hamm (mattjhamm@gmail.com)

Editor, Archaeological East Asia: Katrinka Reinhart (reinhart@stanford.edu)

https://religiondatabase.org/landing/get-involved 

Introductory video: https://youtu.be/X7V0WNe2PrA

In commemoration of Lothar von Falkenhausen’s 60th birthday, this volume assembles eighteen scholarly essays that explore the intersection between art, economy, and ritual in ancient East Asia. The contributions are clustered into four themes: “Ritual Economy,” “Ritual and Sacrifice,” “Technology, Community, Interaction,” and “Objects and Meaning,” which collectively reflect the theoretical, methodological, and historical questions that Falkenhausen has been examining via his scholarship, research, and teaching throughout his career.

Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) is pleased to announce a number of intern and volunteer positions opening for the coming Fall period. These internships are a fantastic way of getting involved with a vibrant educational community and outreach-oriented non-profit in the Ancient Studies sector. Please see their 

The Society for east Asian Archaeology held its first online book talk via Zoom on Thursday 8 December 2022. The talk featured Dr. Wengcheong Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Dr. Qin Cao (Oriental Museum, Durham University) on the launch of their new books, “Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry” and “Weapons in Late Shang (c. 1250-1050 BCE) China: Beyond Typology and Ritual”. Also in attendance is Dr. Rowan Flad (Harvard University), the series editor for the Routledge Series in Chinese Archaeology, who served as discussant.

Greetings from SEAA! We have just published our first ever newsletter, which includes information on our upcoming online student conference, student paper awards, employment opportunities, and recent fieldwork. You ca view the entire newsletter here.

If you are a current member and did not receive an email containing your copy of the newsletter please contact: web-editor@seaa-web.org

We hope everyone is off to a good start for the New Year! We at the Executive Board of SEAA are happy to announce that from now on we will be publishing a quarterly newsletter (Jan / April / July / October) that highlights some of the amazing work that our membership is doing around the world.

The Society of East Asian Archaeology Online Student Conference 

Registration is open to all and free of charge. You do not need to be a speaker to attend. If you have not yet registered for the conference, please do so NOW via the following link: https://seaa-web.org/conference/upcoming/registration-form

Presentation abstracts for the upcoming SEAA conference are available on the SEAA website via the following link: https://seaa-web.org/conference/upcoming/abstracts

Check out this video highlight by our local organizers showcasing the SEAA9 conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_gMKESaFKY