2023-2024

Diachronic Analysis of Human-Object Relations: A Case Study of the Kabinyangang Ancestral Pots, Taiwan Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk by Chiang Chih-Hua (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University; HYI...

Domesticated: How Cultivated Species Impacted Ancient Silk Road Societies Harvard Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series by Alicia Ventresca-Miller (Professor, University of Michigan) This lecture focuses on a central question – how did...

Exploration of Food Resources by a Neolithic Community in Northern China: Perspectives from Stable Isotope Analysis Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk by Yu Dong ( Professor, Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University; HYI Visiting...

An Archaeology of Early Modern Transition in Southeast Asia: Social Transformation in Angkor (13th-17th century) by Piphal Heng (Post-Doctoral Scholar, UCLA Program for Early Modern Asia (PEMSEA) and Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) Southeast Asia...

Stone and Sediment: Interaction Between Resources and Society in the Jianghan Area From 1,600 to 1,050 BC Thesis Defense by Xin Su (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) How the interaction between resources and society shaped...

Decentering Chronologies: Integrating Indigenous Perspectives and Local Knowledge in Philippine Archaeology by Stephen B. Acabado (Professor, Department of Anthropology & Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA) In this presentation, I reassess the Three...

Dairy Cultures and the Milk Paradox of the Eurasian Steppe Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series by Christina Warinner (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) Milk is a familiar food. And a fraught food. The natural food of...

Subsistence and Ritual: Animal Economy in the Bronze Age Qaidam Basin in Northwestern China Thesis Defense by Chengrui Zhang (Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) Understanding the diversity and complexity of human-animal...