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For those interested, this video "Method of Pottery Lipid Residue Analysis and Practice made by the Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs is available on Youtube at here!
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Cranfield University is pleased to announce two sources of funding for the recently launched MSc. in Archaeomaterials
In this MSc course, you will learn how archaeological science provides fundamental insights into the ways humans have transformed natural materials, from the Palaeolithic to the Industrial Revolution.
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As chaos reigned during the Warring States period (475-221BC), rulers across ancient China turned to intellectuals to find a way out of perpetual war, and the Jixia Academy in the state of Qi stood out for its power to attract the greatest Chinese thinkers of the time.
The institute used to be a place relegated to the historical record; experts believed it probably existed, but little was known about Jixia and there was no definitive proof that it was a real place.
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For Chinese archaeology, 2021 was a banner year highlighted by the global breakthrough that was the beautifully preserved ancient gold masks discovered at Sanxingdui.
Last week, the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences announced what it believed were the most important archaeology finds in China last year. While most of the sites were discovered before 2021, they all featured remarkable excavation finds from last year.
The discoveries help paint a picture of ancient Chinese society across the millennia.
Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) is pleased to announce that we have a number of Intern and Volunteer Positions opening over the Summer period. These positions are a fantastic way of getting involved with a vibrant educational community and outreach-oriented non-profit in the Ancient Studies sector, and can also qualify as college credits for those in full-time study. SASA is looking for people from all kinds of backgrounds, who are interested in growing, developing their skills, and making a difference.
A series of talks from the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties International Archaeological Site have been uploaded to Youtube for viewing. They will be available until the end of March - please see below for the a list of the participants and links to each of the talks.
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1st Relay Talk
Mark Hudson
"Another Japanese Archeology from the Survey of the Miyakojima Long Tomb Site"
https://youtu.be/U7zMPpF4zro
Peking University's School of Archaeology and Museology is delighted to announce that they are offering four (4) tenure track positions in their department. Peking University was the first to establish an archaeology teaching and research institution among all the universities in China.
[Free E-book] Dear friends of SEAA, the Cambridge University Press will be launching a new series titled "Cambridge Elements: Ancient East Asia.” The inaugural piece, "Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia.", by Mark Edward Lewis, will be FREE to download from March 10-24, 2022. See link for more information: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/violence-and-the-rise-of-centra…
Four-year PhD fellowship sponsored by the Hulsewé-Wazniewski Foundation
Vacancy number 22-099
The Hulsewé-Wazniewski Foundation (HWS, https://www.hulsewe-wazniewski.nl)/ for the advancement of teaching and research in the archaeology, art, and material culture of China at Leiden University seeks applications for a funded four-year PhD fellowship, starting September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.
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RANZAN, Saitama Prefecture--Artifacts labeled as “groundbreaking discoveries” from the ruins of structures associated with warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Siege of Odawara in 1590 could have been prototypes of ninja weapons.
Akihiro Iwata, an archaeologist and curator at the Saitama Prefectural Ranzan Historical Museum here, said the flat stones and clay balls may well have been the forerunners of “shuriken” throwing stars and “makibishi” caltrops that later made up ninja arsenals.