2022-2023

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"Stable Isotope Fractionations during Silk Production: Foundations for Interpretations of Isotope Signatures in Ancient Silk Textiles", a talk by Hong Yang (Bryant University)

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Please join the Harvard Asian Archaeology Seminar Series for a talk Wednesday, April 19 at 3:00 PM. "Stable Isotope Fractionations during Silk Production: Foundations for Interpretations of Isotope Signatures in Ancient Silk Textiles" by Hong Yang (Vice...

Harvard Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk, "Ancient Cultural and Diplomatic Relations of Funan with China and India: An Assessment of Early Texts and Recent Archaeological Discoveries," by Phan Anh Tu

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Harvard Asian Archaeology Seminar participants may be interested in the following Harvard Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk: "Ancient Cultural and Diplomatic Relations of Funan with China and India: An Assessment of Early Texts and Recent...

Anthropology Department Seminar Series, "Deciphering horses: horse use and horse selection in the first millennium BC China," a talk by Li Yue (Northwest University)

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Workshop, "Cognitive Art History—What Makes the Color Red?"

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Organized by Professor Eugene Wang, this workshop is a step towards developing methods of cognitive art history through examining issues of color in the Chinese context with evidence from archaeology and paleography. This workshop will feature 3 talks by...

Anthropology Department Seminar, "Ecosystem Risks and Adoption of Ceramics in the Late Pleistocene of Southern Japan and Its Broader Implications," a talk by Fumie Iizuka

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Abstract: Iizuka recently began archaeological excavations on Tanegashima Island off Kyushu where the most pronounced change from the terminal Upper Paleolithic (ca. 17,000- cal BP) to ceramic-bearing Incipient Jomon (ICP-J: 14,000/13,500-12,800 cal BP)...

Anthropology Department Seminar, "Exploring Hominin Dietary Strategies and Ecologies in Island Southeast Asia," a talk by Grace Veatch

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Abstract: As a taphonomist, Dr. E. Grace Veatch’s research focuses on how archaic and modern humans exploited different resources and ecologies within the temporal and environmental contexts of the Pleistocene/Holocene. Dr. Veatch’s approach to...

Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk, "The origin of ancient Austronesian: from the perspective of archaeological discoveries in Southeast China", by Zhenyu Zhou (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

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Welcome back to a new semester of Asian archaeology seminars and events at Harvard. We invite you to the following Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk next Wednesday by our affiliate, Zhenyu Zhou, with Rowan Flad as chair/discussant: "The...

SEAA Virtual Book Talk

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Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Seminar Series, "Eternal Silk Road? New Archaeological Data from Bukhara and its Hinterland," a talk by Sören Stark (New York University)

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Abstract: The archaeological exploration of Bukhara lags, compared to other important metropoleis in the wider region (such as Merv or Samarkand), considerably behind. Unfortunately, the lack of data is often compensated by clichés about the 'Silk Road'...

Anthropology Department Seminar Series, "High Altitude Hunting and Early Pastoralism in the Mongolian Altai: New Perspectives from Melting Ice," a talk by Will Taylor (University of Colorado-Boulder)

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ABSTRACT - Although archaeological clues suggest that high mountain zones played a central role in the first emergence of mobile pastoralism in the eastern steppes of Eurasia, the region's vast expanses and fragmentary archaeological record have prevented...