New Open Access Book: Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism by Mark Hudson
Walter Benjamin observed that it is precisely the modern which conjures up prehistory.
09
Nov
SEAA News Blog
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09
Nov
Mariana Castro Receives UNESCO Silk Roads Youth Research Grant
Mariana Castro, a fourth-year PhD candidate at ISAW, is one of 12 recipients of the UNESCO Silk Roads Youth Research Grant. Her project "Turquoise Extraction and Exchange in Pre-Modern Central Asia" was selected from pool of nearly 800 research proposals.
09
Nov
Call for Proposals for the PEMSEA Program
The UCLA Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia (PEMSEA), a collaborative project among UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i-Mānoa Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation’s Southeast Asia Initiative, is inviting research proposals from graduate students and scholars that focus on climate and anthropogenic change, disaster responses, and interactions (i.e., trade) during
03
Nov
IPPA 2022 - Call for Abstracts
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association is inviting paper and poster contributions for the 22nd Congress to be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from the 7th to 12th of November 2022.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15th August 2022.
KEY INFORMATION
29
Oct
WEBINAR: In a Nutshell: Examining the Oversimplification of Jomon Period Ground Stone through Starch Grain Analysis in Southern Hokkaido Japan
The Archaeological Centre at the University of Toronto will be hosting a talk titled "In a Nutshell: Examining the Oversimplification of Jomon Period Ground Stone through Starch Grain Analysis in Southern Hokkaido Japan" by Dr Emma Yasui via Zoom on Friday, November 5, 2021, at 3:00 PM EST. Those interested in attending can register via the following link: Meeting Registration - Zoom
26
Oct
POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY: Japan's oldest-known color accessory found in Paleolithic Okinawa cave ruins
NAHA -- Japan's oldest-known color accessory has been unearthed from a stratum in cave ruins dating back to the Paleolithic period about 23,000 years ago in southernmost Okinawa Prefecture, a local museum announced on Oct. 21.
26
Oct
Popular Archaeology: Artifacts Used by Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers Found in Utah
Archaeologists in Utah have unearthed artifacts from a long-abandoned town once populated by Chinese workers who helped build the first transcontinental railroad in the mid-19th century.
26
Oct
Abstracts for new issue of the BMFEA
The newest issue of the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA) in Stockholm is a special edition for the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Yangshao Culture by Johan Gunnar Andersson. For this special event, we have created a booklet of abstracts in both English and Chinese.
25
Oct
Call for MA and PhD students at University of Toronto and Trent University
University of Toronto
22
Oct
Paperback edition of Archaeology of East Asia: The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan now available
The 2nd edition of Archaeology of East Asia: The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan is now available in paperback format at Blackwell's for half price for a limited time.