SEAA News Blog: Journal Updates

Urbanization in the eastern seaboard (Haidai) area of northern China: Perspectives from the late Neolithic site of Liangchengzhen Authors: Anne P.Underhill, Geoffrey E.Cunnar, Fengshi Luan, Gary Crawford, Haiguang Yu, Hui Fang, Fen Wang and Hao Wu Abstract: Limited comparative data from different regions has hampered understanding of variation in the development of urbanism during the late Neolithic period of China.

"Identity and community structure in Neolithic man bac, northern Vietnam" Authors: Marc F. Oxenham, Trinh Hoang Hiep, Hirofumi Matsumura, Kate Domette, Damien Huffer, Rebecca Crozier, Lan Cuong Nguyen, and Clare McFadden Abstract: This paper explores the evidence for social structuring principles and other aspects of identity at Man Bac, an early Neolithic (2066–1523 cal. BCE) community in northern Vietnam.

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/

"Palaeolithic voyage for invisible islands beyond the horizon"

Authors: Yosuke Kaifu, Tien-Hsia Kuo, Yoshimi Kubota and Sen Jan 

"A Paleolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, Henan, China" 

Authors: Zhanyang Li, Luc Doyon , Hui Fang , Ronan Ledevin , Alain Queffelec , Emeline Raguin , and Francesco d’Errico  

"Innovation, imitation, and identity: Mayeon Black ware and social complexity in Southwestern Korea" now in press in Archaeological Research in Asia. 

Authors: Sangwon Nam, Rory Walsh, Gyoung-Ah Lee 

“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