Dr. SHUI Tao (Nanjing University, and Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania)

Fri Feb 21 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Cultural Exchange Between the East and West before the Silk Road: Recent Studies of Bronze Age Archaeology of Xinjiang Province, China

Ms. Erika EVASDOTTIR (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard)

Fri Feb 14 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Nationalism and the Museum in Taiwan

Mr. Xuechun LIU (Graduate Student, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of History, and Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Fellow)

Fri Feb 7 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

The Fating of Shang Oracle Bone Inscriptions: Problems and Prospects

Presentation and Discussion of Selected graduate student research papers from Anthropology 144 “The Archaeology of Ancient China”

Fri Jan 31 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Tara Sullen DUFFY (Graduate Student, Regional Studies East Asia) “Plagiarists and Politicians: Archaeologists in the Song Dynasty” Vanessa FONG (Graduate Student, Social Anthropology) “Marxism, Nationalism and Archaeology in the PRC” Patrick RASZELENBERG (Graduate Student, Regional Studies-East Asia) “Aspects of Shamanism in Ancient China” James Fitzsimmons (Graduate Student, Anthropology/Archaeology Wing) “Reading the Cracks: Evidence for “Shang” Refugees in the New World” Karla DAVIS-SALAZAR (Graduate Student, Anthropology/Archaeology) “The Origins of Urbanism in China: A Comparison of... Read more about Presentation and Discussion of Selected graduate student research papers from Anthropology 144 “The Archaeology of Ancient China”

Mr. Tianlong JIAO (Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar, and Research Associate, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Archaeolgy)

Fri Jan 10 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Chariots, Laquers, and Bronze: New Excavations at the Major Shang Site of Qianzhangda, Shandong Province, North China

Open discussion of ongoing fieldwork and thesis research

Fri Dec 13 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Harvard graduate students in Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Literatures and Regional Studies – East Asia.

Prof. Wenxin QI (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of History, Beijing)

Fri Dec 6 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Communication and Transportation in Shang Dynasty China

Dr. Denis REIDY (Staff Geophysicist, Geo-Centers Inc.) and Mr. David B. CIST (Graduate Student, Earth Resources Laboratory, MIT)

Fri Nov 15 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

On the Applicability of Geo-Physical Remote Sensing in Chinese Archaeology: Notes from the Field

Prof. Sarah M. NELSON (Department of Anthropology, University of Denver)

Fri Nov 8 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

The Hongshan Culture of Northeast China: New Research and Future Prospects

Dr. Ken’ichi SASAKI (Associate of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology)

Fri Nov 1 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Keyhole-Shaped Mounds: Archaeological Approaches to Elite Mortuary Rituals in 4th c. Japan

Prof. David N. KEIGHTLEY (Department of History, UC Berkeley)

Mon Oct 21 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Art and the Ancestors: Reflections on the Origins of Chinese Characters. Co-sponsored with the Pre-Mordern China Seminar.

Prof. Hyung-Il PAI (Department of History,UC-SB)

Fri Oct 4 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

The ‘Origins’ of Korean Civilization: Japanese Archaeology in the Korean Peninsula, 1898-1945

Dr. Jian LENG (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Peabody Museum, Harvard University)

Fri Sep 27 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Using GIS and GPS in the Archaeological Surveys of the Ying River Valley, Henan Province, China

Open discussion, 1996-1997

Fri Sep 20 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Seminar schedule, ongoing graduate student research projects in Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Regional Studies-East Asia.

Prof. TONG Enzheng (Department of Art History, Wesleyan University, CT)

Fri May 3 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Ancient Yunnan and Sichuan, and the Search for a ‘Southern Silk Road’

Mr. Stephen CHIA (Special Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University)

Fri Apr 26 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

A Major Neolithic Pottery Production Site in Southeast Asia

Mr. Mokhtar SAIDIN (Gradute Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University)

Fri Apr 19 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

New Data of the Paleolithic in Malaysia

Dr. Sarah ALLAN (Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages, Dartmouth College)

Fri Apr 5 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

The Tiger in Early Chinese Art and Ritual

Dr. Joyce WHITE (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania)

Fri Mar 22 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Insights from Thai Prehistory on Theories of Politico-Economic Development

Dr. Nancy STEINHARDT (University of Pennsylvania)

Fri Mar 15 (All day)

Location: 

Cambridge, MA

Changchuan Tomb No. 1 and Its North Asia Context

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